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StatsCan’s canola estimates taken with grain of salt

Aug. 23, 2016 at 2:19 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s latest crop production estimates are in and while they may raise a few eyebrows, the numbers aren’t likely to cause havoc in the markets, according to most trade analysts. StatsCan on Tuesday pegged canola production in 2016-17 at 17 million tonnes. That compares to pre-report […]

Industry bracing for potentially large StatsCan crop estimates

Aug. 19, 2016 at 12:39 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada books bigger beef cattle herd

Aug. 18, 2016 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Staff

Canada’s canola, pulse acres rise at grains’ expense

Jun. 29, 2016 at 10:45 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

Jun. 24, 2016 at 7:26 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

North American sunflowers looking good early

Jun. 17, 2016 at 7:21 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Sunflower crops in key growing regions of North America are in relatively good shape early in the season, according to reports. However, those good conditions have put some nearby pressure on values, with spot pricing expected to take some direction from the weather and acreage reports over […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

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

StatsCan grain stocks data to confirm feed demand, production

May. 4, 2016 at 11:32 am CDT

CNS Canada — Just how much barley did Canadian cattle eat over the past winter? Will there be any old-crop wheat left over this year? And how much canola was really grown in 2015? Answers to these questions and more will be closer to being found when Statistics Canada releases […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Record-low summerfallow expected

Apr. 21, 2016 at 8:40 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Changing farm practices and moving world markets over the years have seen shifts in the makeup of the crops grown in Canada — but the most noticeable change in the past three decades may be the amount of land seeded to nothing. Heading into the 2016 growing […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

Apr. 21, 2016 at 5:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers will be seeding record acres of peas and lentils this spring, as expected, but the increases to pulse crops are coming at the expense of canola — which saw acres come in below expectations in a report out from Statistics Canada. In its first acreage […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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