Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit China January 13-17, his office said on Wednesday, in what will be the first visit by a Canadian prime minister since 2017.
Canola
Carney to visit China next week, spokesperson says
Cereal cover crops show mixed flea beetle protection for canola
Fall rye and oat nurse crops show promise for reducing damage, however, current research notes it's not yet a reliable field-scale tool
University of Manitoba researchers are testing if planting fall rye and oat nurse crops help growers reduce damage without hurting yield.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026
When canola trading begins returning to normal come Jan. 5, the oilseed’s futures are likely to fall back, said Tony Tryhuk, trader with RBC Dominion securities in Winnipeg.
Manitoba canola embattled by verticillium
Verticillium stripe pressure has been growing in the province and growers have precious few tools to protect their crops from disease
Verticillium stripe pressure has been growing in Manitoba, and canola farmers still have precious few tools to protect their crop from the disease.
Foggy grain market predictions for 2026
Grain market forces and how they’ll impact future prices are tough to sum up in holiday season chit-chat
Many factors are pushing and pulling at grain markets as farmers leave 2025 behind and start considering what 2026 will bring.
Larger Canadian canola and wheat ending stocks expected
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada raised its 2025/26 carryout forecasts for canola and wheat in its latest supply/demand update released Dec. 17.
ICE canola weekly outlook: Little positive for futures
ICE canola futures fell to their lowest levels in nine months during the week ended Dec. 17, with little supportive news to underpin the market.
How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods
Western Canadian farmers are using minimum and zero-till farming, tile drainage, slow-release fertilizer, and better crop breeding to produce record crops despite drought conditions.
Canola suffers chaotic 2025
Actions by China, U.S., StatCan guide the oilseed
Canola had something of a tumultuous 2025, pushed one way or another by a variety of factors. Nearby canola futures traded in a wide range from about C$550 to C$750 per tonne over the last year, but were within a few dollars of where they started by December with the most-active March contract in the middle of that range at nearly C$633 as of Dec. 11.
Canola’s clubroot success story
Canadian canola growers are still on watch for clubroot, but co-ordinated control efforts and advancements have helped keep the disease from exploding as many worried it would in Western Canada
Two decades ago, Canada’s scientists, agronomists and canola growers were extremely worried that clubroot would spread across Prairie farms and devastate Canada’s canola industry.