Insights and Stories on Statistics Canada

ICE weekly outlook: Canola seesaws with StatsCan report

Dec. 9, 2015 at 4:05 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted modest losses for the week ended Wednesday, with the January contract falling slightly below the key technical benchmark of $470 per tonne. Still, at least one analyst said he thinks canola is well positioned to climb higher. A bearish Statistics Canada […]

Durum at a standstill despite fresh numbers from StatsCan

Dec. 8, 2015 at 7:26 pm CST

By Jade Markus

Huge Canadian canola crop beats expectations

Dec. 4, 2015 at 1:42 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Bigger crops anticipated ahead of StatsCan report

Dec. 2, 2015 at 4:19 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Grain deliveries hit record high in September

Oct. 22, 2015 at 8:14 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

StatsCan comes in at low end of expectations for canola

Oct. 2, 2015 at 10:10 am CDT

CNS Canada — Despite an upward revision of nearly a million tonnes in Statistics Canada’s latest report, most analysts expect canola production will keep climbing further. StatsCan on Friday morning released its updated grain/oilseed production estimates, with data collected through surveys taken between Sept. 3 and 13. Canola production numbers […]

By Dave Sims

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

Sep. 30, 2015 at 4:23 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Yields are generally beating earlier expectations as the harvest progresses across Western Canada, which should lead to upward revisions to canola and wheat when Statistics Canada releases its latest production survey results Friday. However, those numbers still may be underreported, and further revisions are expected in subsequent […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Prices slide on China worries, harvest progress

Sep. 28, 2015 at 4:13 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean futures slid Monday, pressured by a broad sell-off in commodity and equity markets and progress by U.S. farmers in harvesting crops. Soybeans tumbled more than one per cent, while Chicago wheat slipped off its earlier one-month high. Corn also declined. “This will be one […]

By Rod Nickel

ICE weekly outlook: Canola looking overpriced

Sep. 23, 2015 at 6:04 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower in sympathy with CBOT soybeans during the week ended Wednesday, and could have more room to the downside as the Canadian oilseed remains overpriced compared to its U.S. counterpart. The canola premium compared to soybeans is the same now as […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

StatsCan raises wheat, canola estimates with new model

Sep. 17, 2015 at 11:59 am CDT

CNS Canada — Wheat and canola production are expected to be higher than in previous estimates, but still lower than in 2014, according to a new Statistics Canada model for field crop production estimates. The model-based report, released Thursday, pegs this year’s spring wheat production at 18.4 million tonnes, higher […]

By Jade Markus