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What will drive grain prices higher?
Weather conditions through spring seeding will be a major market-moving factor over the next few weeks, but news on the transportation front may also sway values. Planes — The United States government announced long-anticipated guidance on its subsidy program for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on April 30. The announcement only covers the next year, but[...]
Tariffs drive grain market moves
Prices in the canola futures market were boosted by last-minute Trump tariff delay in the first week of February.
Canola prices pull back
Spring planting has caught up with canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange. For several weeks canola pushed upward, even as rain across the Prairies replenished depleted soil moisture levels, but now optimism for good crops has put pressure on values.
Planting was delayed and as much as 40 per cent of this year’s canola is[...]
Watching patterns of grain pricing
Economics, investor sentiment and trader psychology are all popular buzzwords that try to explain human nature, but they are nothing new. They have been around as long as humans, markets and trade have been around. They are all just another way of trying to figure out what the heck is going on. The study of[...]
Canola prices in a pickle
Threatened Trump tariffs have slipped canola prices into a predicament. The commodity’s futures on the Intercontinental Exchange are at a point where values could quickly plummet or spike higher.
The global forces that shaped 2024 grain markets
From the ongoing war to Ukraine to an incoming second Trump administration, tensions with China, labour disputes, low water challenges and more: here are the biggest global forces tugging on the markets as farmers look to 2025.
No one knows where canola prices are headed
Canola seeding is set to begin on the Prairies and canola prices are in a state of indecision. It feels odd to make that assessment after the July canola contract on the Intercontinental Exchange gained $14.60 per tonne during the week ended April 25, to close at $636.90. However, two straight days in the red[...]
Soybeans sink canola prices
South America’s soybean situation has followed two contrasting narratives in the past few months. The first one is dry and hot weather in the northern areas of Brazil, as well as wet weather in the south, that will prevent a second-straight record-breaking crop and raise worldwide soybean prices. The other is that Argentina could potentially[...]
Grain prices still hang on exports
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts,” according to a quote attributed to former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau who jokingly added “our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.” Looking at the current Winnipeg Jets lineup at least, it’s safe to say the trade balance on hockey[...]
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