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StatsCan sees higher cattle, hog inventories at July 1

Aug. 23, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

Nationwide head counts of livestock from the “early stages” of Western Canada’s ongoing drought won’t yet show the weather’s full impact, but showed slightly larger herds heading into this summer compared to last year. Statistics Canada on Monday reported the first year-over-year increase in the size of the country’s cattle […]

Pulse weekly outlook: StatsCan acres see little change

Jun. 29, 2021 at 7:36 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Canada’s canola acres up from earlier forecast

Jun. 29, 2021 at 1:27 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canola, wheat acres in opposite trends before StatsCan report

Jun. 25, 2021 at 6:09 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

StatsCan shows 2020 farm income up significantly

May. 27, 2021 at 10:22 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Feed weekly outlook: Saskatchewan barley price spikes, drops

May. 20, 2021 at 3:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — It was a tale of two weeks for Saskatchewan feed barley prices. The high-delivered bid for the crop on May 11 bolted from $6 per bushel to $6.75 in one day, according to Prairie Ag Hotwire data. Saskatchewan’s price spike put the bid only 80 cents behind Alberta’s. […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Canada left with very tight canola, barley stocks

May. 7, 2021 at 9:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s grain stocks report leaves no question that canola stocks have been tight for some time in Canada and will continue to be unless demand is slashed, according to independent trader Jerry Klassen in Winnipeg. “You can’t find canola anywhere in the country and the stocks that […]

By MarketsFarm

Canada’s soybean, corn acres projected to rise

Apr. 27, 2021 at 8:37 pm CDT

Statistics Canada’s first read of farmers’ intentions for the 2021 growing season shows more Canadian acres going into both soybeans and corn. Farmers nationwide anticipate planting 5.3 million acres to soy in 2021, up 5.5 per cent from 2020, StatsCan said in its field crop survey released Tuesday. “An increase […]

By Dave Bedard

Pulse weekly outlook: StatsCan’s pea, chickpea acres short of trade expectations

Apr. 27, 2021 at 7:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Numbers were seen as disappointing for dry peas and chickpeas in Statistics Canada’s survey-based principal field crop planting projections released Tuesday. The federal agency predicted 3.839 million acres seeded for dry peas nationwide, nearly a 10 per cent decline compared to last year. By comparison, MarketsFarm projected 4.38 […]

By Adam Peleshaty

StatsCan’s projected canola area on low side of expectations

Apr. 27, 2021 at 12:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As the market grapples with new planting projections from Statistics Canada, one thing was abundantly clear to MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville: this canola forecast isn’t enough to rectify tight ending stocks. In StatsCan’s survey-based principal field crop areas report, released Tuesday, the federal agency pegged canola acres […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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