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The World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 28, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
Crops

Canada, China agree to suspend WTO canola dispute

Lifting of canola ban renders case moot

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Berlin | Reuters — Canada and China have agreed to suspend proceedings against Chinese measures affecting the importation of Canadian canola seed, according to a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint on Thursday. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) panel suspended its work as of Tuesday, the complaint said. Work can be suspended at any time
ICE Futures November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Crush margins guiding canola demand

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MarketsFarm — Enormous canola crush margins will lead to increased demand for the Canadian oilseed, according to MarketsFarm’s director of markets and weather Bruce Burnett. As of Tuesday, the nearby November-October margins were estimated at $215.51 per tonne, while the same position for November-October 2023 now stands at $124.48/tonne. This time last year their margins
Blackleg at the base of canola stems.
Crops, Oilseeds

Getting a leg up on blackleg

New research finds blackleg populations are more diverse in Manitoba

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New genomic research from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) could give agronomists a leg up in the fight against blackleg in canola. Blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) is a severe fungal disease of canola plants, and with canola generating about one-quarter of all farm crop receipts in Canada, it is a serious threat to producers. The new research was
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Crops, Markets, Weather

Greater crop production estimated prior to StatCan report

Extended time lag between survey, data's release criticized

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MarketsFarm — Analysts are expecting Canadian crop production totals for the 2022-23 marketing year to be substantially higher compared to drought-stricken 2021-22, but still not enough to fully replenish supplies. Statistics Canada (StatCan) will publish its first satellite image model-based yield and production estimates for principal field crops on Monday. Traders and analysts are interested
Delays in spring seeding on the eastern Prairies put this year’s canola crop behind the usual pace, making fall frost more of a concern.
Grain Markets, Markets

Canola unlikely to see rebound

A new StatsCan crop report is due out next week

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Ahead of the next principal field crop report from Statistics Canada, there’s some speculation that the 2022-23 canola crop could come in below 19 million tonnes. The thinking is some areas of the Prairies have received too much moisture, while other parts of the region didn’t get near enough. There was a suggestion that any
ICE November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2) and 100-day moving average (green line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Time gap too large in StatCan report

Canola's potential yields shrank in meantime

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MarketsFarm — There has been about a one-month gap in between Statistics Canada having gathered its data for next week’s principal crops report and actually releasing the report. That’s something trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg finds irksome. “They’re using computer models of some kind. You would think they could get this out
“Growers may have reasons to cut early based on frost risk and logistics, but where possible, we’d like to see the target shift to later cutting.” – Shawn Senko.
Crops, Oilseeds

Cut canola later for higher yield

Canola Council launches campaign to persuade farmers of the benefits of patience

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The Canola Council of Canada is encouraging farmers to hold off on harvesting canola to improve yield. Research in the early 2000s showed that canola swathed at 60-70 per cent seed colour change (SCC) yielded 11 per cent more than fields swathed at 30-40 per cent. That research was reinforced in 2013, when the Indian
“Our position is that ESN does reduce nitrous oxide emissions during our short-season, dryland prairie conditions.” – Curtis Rempel.
News

ESN off the table for climate fund incentives

Canola Council of Canada wants AAFC to revisit the change

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The Canola Council of Canada says ESN has been scratched from the list of incentives being offered to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer in the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Change Action Fund (OFCAF). The fund was launched in February by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to help farmers adopt and implement immediate on-farm beneficial management practices that

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