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ICE weekly outlook: Canola pointed lower

Feb. 1, 2017 at 6:02 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts saw a bit of a corrective bounce on Wednesday but their overall trend remains pointed lower, with the winter highs possibly in for now, according to an analyst. “The technical and the fundamentals are pointing down,” said Errol Anderson of Pro Market […]

StatsCan lentil numbers confirm trade suspicions

Dec. 6, 2016 at 7:19 pm CST

By Jade Markus

Focus on quality, not quantity following StatsCan report

Dec. 6, 2016 at 6:55 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada harvests bigger wheat, canola crops despite snowy fall

Dec. 6, 2016 at 10:26 am CST

By Dale Smith Rod Nickel

StatsCan report may raise more questions than answers

Dec. 2, 2016 at 5:24 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canadian wheat, canola crops seen weathering snow

Dec. 1, 2016 at 7:50 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s wheat and canola crops withstood wintry weather that stalled the autumn harvest, and production topped last year’s output, according to Reuters’ industry survey of 13 analysts and traders. Statistics Canada on Tuesday will issue its final crop production estimates for the 2016-17 marketing year. The […]

By Rod Nickel

Prairies tell a tale of two flax crops

Oct. 20, 2016 at 3:00 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A large portion of Canada’s flaxseed crop is still in the field, leaving questions over the size and quality of what will eventually be harvested. About a third of the flaxseed crop is still left in the field in Saskatchewan, by the estimate of Tom Leier, senior […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Grain trade still wary of satellite-based StatsCan estimates

Sep. 20, 2016 at 12:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s second attempt at using satellite imagery to determine the size of the country’s crops is in line with trade guesses when it comes to canola — but market participants are still taking the new methodology with a grain of salt. The model-based principal field crop […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Statistics data safe, official says, after agency head quits

Sep. 19, 2016 at 5:00 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Statistics Canada data is safely stored and outsiders have no chance of accessing it, a senior official said on Monday after the chief statistician quit in protest over concerns about the agency’s independence. Canada’s Liberal government, which took power last November, is trying to resolve a […]

By David Ljunggren

ICE weekly outlook: Export uncertainty dogs canola

Sep. 14, 2016 at 4:27 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canola futures don’t appear ready to climb drastically higher anytime soon as uncertainty over Chinese buying weighs on the market, according to a Winnipeg trader and analyst. The recent grain stocks report compiled by Statistics Canada has become a source of pressure for canola, said Ken Ball […]

By Dave Sims