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Canada to limit uses of two crop chemicals

Move comes on concerns about water insects, but canola growers don’t see significant changes

By Rod Nickel April 2, 2021

Reuters – Canada’s Health Ministry said March 31 it would limit the use of two types of crop chemicals that have been linked to deaths of aquatic insects that are food for fish and birds. Health Canada’s multi-year review of clothianidin, made by Bayer AG, and thiamethoxam, a Syngenta product, found that some applications pose

ICE May 2021 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger (20,2) bands, July 2021 canola (green line) and November 2021 canola (black line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: USDA reports could spur record canola acres

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 1, 2021

MarketsFarm — After May and July canola contracts took hefty hits over the past the week, they skyrocketed to close out the calendar month following a pair of reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department on Wednesday issued its first survey-based prospective planting report for 2021, which called for increased acres for

Canada needs a large canola crop this year to restock tight supplies, which doesn’t change the fact that the crop remains expensive to grow.

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola traders’ attention now turns toward new crop

Upcoming U.S. data could provide some direction in the near term

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 1, 2021

It’s very hard to know what’s going on,” one trader said of the volatile ICE Futures canola market during the last full trading week of March, as prices were all over the place and a number of rumours circulated in the market. The nearby May contract traded within a $50-per-tonne range during the week, with

A mayfly on water. (SBTheGreenMan/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Health Canada steps back from bans on two neonics

New limits, some cancellations to be put in place

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 1, 2021

A federal proposal to protect aquatic insect habitat by cancelling all registered outdoor uses for two popular ag insecticides has been walked back in a major way. Health Canada on Wednesday announced its special review decisions on the risks to aquatic bug life from the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, both pesticides and seed treatments

ABOVE: Little snow remains on fields near Brandon in mid-March.

Crops, Farmit Manitoba, Other

Manitoba farmers confronted with a dry spring

Much of agro-Manitoba is sitting at 30 per cent or less of normal precipitation since November, and that’s not counting the dry fall beforehand

By Alexis Stockford March 29, 2021

Agro-meteorologists have good news and bad news. The good news is: chances are you’re getting onto your field early this spring — in fact, the first reports of field work in central Manitoba have already started trickling in over social media. The bad news is: those worries you had about a dry spring are coming

Manitoba farmers are seeing a changing landscape for loans.

News, Other

Competition grows for cash advances for Manitoba farmers

Alberta’s FarmCash is the latest option for province's growers

By Allan Dawson March 25, 2021

Manitoba farmers have lots of options for low- and no-interest cash advances on their soon-to-be-seeded 2021 crops, including new to the Manitoba market, FarmCash, operated by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC). FarmCash joins the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) and Manitoba Livestock Cash Advance Inc. — stalwart administrators of the federal

News, Other

Cashing out: The history of the cash advance in Manitoba

Manitoba’s corn cash advance started 40 years ago followed shortly by canola

By Allan Dawson March 25, 2021

Corn was the first non-wheat board crop in Manitoba to qualify for the federal government’s cash advance program starting in 1981. Jim Pedersen, who was president of the Manitoba Corn Growers’ Association at the time, helped get the association incorporated — a prerequisite to administering the program that offers low- and no-interest loans to farmers

News, Other

Few strings to cash advances for farmers

Cash advances are some of the most flexible financial arrangements farmers can access

By Allan Dawson March 25, 2021

The organizations administering cash advances want farmers to know they can get low-interest (and even no-interest) loans against seeded and stored crops with just one string attached: they must repay the loan as they sell their crop. The first $100,000 is interest free and as much as a further $900,000, depending on where you get

Grain Markets, Markets

It wasn’t a great week for prices, especially old-crop canola

Other edible oils also ate their share of losses during the week

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 25, 2021

Rather than getting any St. Patrick’s Day luck, ICE canola futures took more of a hit from the Ides of March. Profit-taking was the main feature for the week ending March 18, which drove a knife into prices that had recently hit record highs. After trading above $800 per tonne to start the week, May

ICE May 2021 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola still finding support

U.S. acreage estimates could sway futures

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 25, 2021

MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market saw some wide price swings over the week ended Wednesday, dropping by more than $50 per tonne off its contract highs in the nearby May contract before recovering to trade just a few dollars off of those levels once again. Tight canola supplies, strength in world vegetable oil

Daily Network News

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Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

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Canola

Canada to limit uses of two crop chemicals

ICE weekly outlook: USDA reports could spur record canola acres

Canola traders’ attention now turns toward new crop

Health Canada steps back from bans on two neonics

Manitoba farmers confronted with a dry spring

Competition grows for cash advances for Manitoba farmers

Cashing out: The history of the cash advance in Manitoba

Few strings to cash advances for farmers

It wasn’t a great week for prices, especially old-crop canola

ICE weekly outlook: Canola still finding support

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