“The long-term demand signal for canola is strong.” – Jim Everson.

Canola industry bullish on demand, nervous about emission targets

Greenhouse gas emission targets bring both potential boon and hardship to Canadian canola growers

Canadian farmers will need to grow a lot more canola to meet global demand, with emission reduction goals both a key driver and central concern, said agriculture leaders during the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) “Canola Week” conference on November 30. “The long-term demand signal for canola is strong,” said CCC president Jim Everson. Why

A view of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at Freeport, Texas on June 9, 2016. Canola futures fell, and rose, over the past week partly on the shifting fortunes of crude oil, with WTI recovering off lows below that US$70 a barrel.

Canola prices regain strength after tumultuous week

Statistics Canada comes through with a further reduction in production

It has been quite the ride this past week for ICE Futures canola. Prices for the Canadian oilseed experienced a sharp downturn as declines in global crude oil futures generated a pull- back in edible oil values. When crude oil reversed course and made gains, then those edible oils responded positively — including canola.  The



Dominic Barton. (Video screengrab from McKinsey.com)

Ambassador to China to leave post after helping free detainees

Canola, 5G access, other issues remain

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada’s ambassador to China said on Monday he would soon leave his post after a two-year assignment where he helped secure the freedom of two Canadian detainees despite icy relations between Beijing and Ottawa. Dominic Barton’s departure, which will take effect Dec. 31, leaves a crucial diplomatic post open at a


Canola and corn will see steep increases in the inspection fees for seed crops, but the CSGA says that reflects higher relative costs for inspecting those crops.

Higher seed crop certification fees coming

Seed growers have endorsed the increase, but others in the industry say it’s going to undermine the competitiveness of certified seed

The cost to certify seed in Canada is going up. And despite a vote overwhelmingly in favour of it, some stakeholders are unhappy at the news. Canadian Seed Grower’s Association (CSGA) members voted 111 to 16 to increase fees to certify Canadian seed crops starting in 2022 during a special general meeting online Nov. 24.

Canola export movement from the West Coast remained solid despite the damage on rail lines through southern British Columbia.

Canola futures show signs of peaking

SUPPLIES | Domestic crushers should be the main customer this month

Canola on the ICE Futures platform hit fresh highs in many contract months during the last full week of November, but showed signs of stalling out near the top with the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States leading to some volatility and thin volumes. While the underlying reality of tight supplies, and the need to


Shipwheel Cattle Feeders of Taber, Alta. has found it can boost soil organic matter by integrating regenerative agriculture practices.

Carbon offset program made for regenerative individuality

REGENERATIVE | Researchers created a carbon map of Alberta so they could zoom in on farms’ soil carbon content

A developing carbon offset program is designed to encourage and incentivize regenerative farming without forcing producers to fit a cookie-cutter protocol. “To try to standardize something that is fundamentally adaptive and site specific, and also based on a lot of innovation, it’s going to put a cap on the innovation that can happen,” said Kimberly

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Canola declines, durum drops in new StatsCan estimates

Soybean, oats estimates raised

MarketsFarm — There were very few surprises in Statistics Canada’s latest principal field crop production estimates released Friday — the first in 2021-22 to use a survey of producers. Nevertheless, they quantified just how severe last summer’s drought was in Western Canada. Canola production for the 2021-22 marketing year was estimated to be 12.595 million



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Smaller crops likely in StatsCan survey-based report

MarketsFarm — Mindful of the summer drought conditions that seriously cut into crop production across the Prairies, average trade estimates call for downward revisions to Statistics Canada’s already-small forecasts for most crops when the it releases its first survey-based estimates of the marketing year on Friday. While prior reports, in September and August, were compiled