Insights and Stories on Statistics Canada

Jun. 29, 2016 at 10:45 am CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers adjusted their acreage ideas to seed more canola and pulses at the expense of grains, according to the updated Statistics Canada field crop area report released June 29. The adjustments were largely in line with trade guesses — and attention in the markets is quickly […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 24, 2016 at 7:26 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers likely seeded more canola and pulse acres than originally thought this spring, but less wheat, according to average trade estimates ahead of Statistics Canada’s next official survey results due out June 29. Poor returns per acre and frustrations over grading issues had some farmers backing […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 23, 2016 at 3:49 am CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower on the week, and the market’s declines are likely not finished yet, one analyst says. Canola lost $42.90 in the July contract and $35.60 in the November contract in the week ended Wednesday, as a rout of fund selling pressured […]

By Jade Markus

Jun. 10, 2016 at 6:39 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Relatively soft feed grain prices over the past year mean producers of supply-managed commodities, such as milk and eggs, have also received lower prices for their products. Such is the interpretation of industry participants accounting for declines in the latest Farm Price Index data released by Statistics […]

By Erin DeBooy

May. 6, 2016 at 12:01 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian canola and wheat supplies are much tighter heading into the final months of the 2015-16 crop year than they were at the same point a year ago, according to Statistics Canada’s latest stocks report. StatsCan pegged the country’s canola stocks, as of March 31, at 7.49 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin