In the end, Manitoba beekeepers say a late-season flush of growth brought their season much closer to the average mark.

Weather turn bails out beekeepers

While honey yields are below average, it’s not the disaster many were expecting in July

The province’s beekeepers may well feel like they dodged a bullet, thanks to a surge of growth in August and September. Late-season rains helped bolster the 2021 honey harvest and have eased fears about the coming winter, according to Manitoba Beekeepers’ Association chair Ian Steppler. “The situation earlier in the summer seemed really dire and


KAP members report on 2021 growing season

KAP members report on 2021 growing season

It was a challenging growing season with lots of variability

Here is some of what some KAP members said about this year’s production during their online advisory council meeting Oct. 20: District 1, Carter McKinney “I heard of guys who got moderate yields on some crops and some guys got basically zero so it’s kind of hard to tell. I think it had to do

A rapeseed field at Adlersberg near Munich on May 11, 2003. European rapeseed futures have recently touched contract highs, to the further benefit of ICE canola values.

Canola futures to resume rising

Fundamentals support a continued climb following a setback last week

After several days of gains, ICE Futures canola took an inevitable double-digit step back on Oct. 21. Despite the extremely tight supply situation in Canada, canola was bound to take a breather, as profit-taking was thought to have driven down prices on that Thursday. However, it’s unlikely the Canadian oilseed will continue to push lower.



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Feds tighten forecast for wheat carryout

MarketsFarm — Canadian wheat carryout for the 2021-22 crop year will be even tighter than earlier forecasts, according to updated supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released Wednesday. The October report included only minor adjustments for most crops, with the most notable change from September being a 500,000-tonne reduction in projected wheat ending


Will old animosities derail a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset seed regulations?

Seed regulatory review reveals old slights

Government is leading the review which is the first in decades

[UPDATED: Oct. 26, 2021] Canada is in the midst of a “once-in-a-generation” review of its seed industry regulations.   But the Seed Regulatory Modernization (SRM) process is also revealing fractures within the country’s seed sector. Animosity appears to be lingering over the Seed Synergy process that led to the formation and launch of Seeds Canada in

A worker moves a crude palm oil tank in Thailand’s Petchaburi province on Jan. 14, 2008. Buoyed in part by the current energy crisis, Malaysian palm oil futures have risen recently to record levels, providing some support for other vegoils.

Chicago soy drags, other vegoils support canola

Bearish data from USDA has knocked CBOT soybeans way down

ICE Futures canola contracts fell off of the top edge of their well-established trading range during the second week of October, but the losses were short lived with a number of underlying influences keeping the market well supported. Traders were busy during the week, rolling their positions out of the nearby November contract and into