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Canola price sees slight growth

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 14, 2024

The canola market finally showed signs of strength in the first week of March, moving above some key chart points as values stabilized after trending lower for the previous five months. The May contract climbed above its 20-day moving average, settling above the psychological $600 per tonne mark on March 7. The contract traded consistently[...]

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Mixed activity in grain markets

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 1, 2024

Activity was mixed in the North American grain and oilseed markets during the last full week of January, as traders were busy looking for direction from South America, where Brazil was in its early stages of harvesting its soybean crop and seeding its next corn crop. The looming influx of recently harvested Brazilian soybeans may[...]

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U.S. tariffs looming large over canola market

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 3, 2025

U.S. tariffs are one market headwind facing Canadian canola prices, but Chinese levies are another wrinkle coming down the pipe for farmers.

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Festive spirit misses grain markets

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 20, 2024

Brazilians were enjoying their most popular holiday of the year as this column went to print, celebrating Carnival with parties, parades, music, samba dancing and an all-around good time. Farmers there hopefully had a chance to partake in the festivities but were likely busy on their fields as well. Soybeans Brazil is the world’s largest[...]

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Canola market equilibrium is fragile

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 3, 2025

Canola prices for western Canadian farmers likely to be guided by China, Trump in 2025. The status quo, forged in September, has kept the canola market teetering on the brink of major upheaval.

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Several factors weigh on canola prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 14, 2023

After continuing to take a barrage of heavy hits during the week of Dec. 1 to 7, canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange are now faced with a fork in the road. They can either resume the downward spiral, busting through support level after support level, or they could see successive increases that could bring[...]

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Grain trade expects lower canola yields

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 17, 2023

Harvest operations are in their early stages across Western Canada, leaving the canola market in a somewhat precarious position awaiting news and biding time until there’s a clearer picture on the size of this year’s crop. The November contract held in a rather narrow $30 per tonne range in early August, between $770 and $800,[...]

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Grain, oilseed markets trending lower

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 4, 2024

The major North American grain and oilseed markets continued to trend lower in mid-February, with canola, soybeans, corn and wheat contracts all setting new contract lows as the futures work to uncover demand. Burdensome supply/demand fundamentals, coupled with heavily short speculators and farmer selling on any attempts at moving higher, give little reason to expect[...]

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It wasn’t a good week for canola prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 2, 2023

Canola prices for the week ended Oct. 26 took a hard hit, with the front contracts falling well below the psychological support level of $700 per tonne. A big reason for those declines was canola’s faithfulness to the soy complex on the Chicago Board of Trade, and in particular soyoil. The path taken by the latter[...]

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Crop plans, grain markets countdown to spring

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 18, 2024

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, according to the old saying that alludes to the idea that storms early in the month are often followed by milder spring weather as the calendar turns to April. Much of Western Canada welcomed snow in early March and the moisture eased some[...]

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Grain, oilseed markets trending lower

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Crop plans, grain markets countdown to spring

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