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A recent major league baseball saga is a good reminder of how grain and oilseed markets can also find themselves caught up in hype at times, with all signs pointing one way – until they aren’t.
Grain Markets, Markets

Baseball hype a case study for markets

Expert's Radar: Sometimes it’s too easy to be swept away in market excitement

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For one brief shining moment, the best two-way baseball player in generations and most sought-after free agent this offseason, Shohei Ohtani, was definitely coming to play in Canada for the Toronto Blue Jays. All the signs were there: a private jet was flying from Los Angeles to Toronto; an upscale sushi restaurant was booked for
Bearish factors weigh on canola market
Grain Markets, Markets

Bearish factors weigh on canola market

Larger production, higher expected carryout and even the charts are dragging down the yellow crop

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The ICE Futures canola market was hard pressed to see room to the upside as it headed into the end of 2023, with relatively comfortable supplies and generally bearish technical signals overhanging the market. The March contract has lost roughly $50 per tonne since the beginning of December, trading at levels not seen since June.
The next data from StatCan will be the stocks on hand in the country as of Dec. 31.
Grain Markets, Markets

Survey says… a lot about markets

Expert’s Radar: Production, stocks and area are three key crops figures tracked by StatCan

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In the days when everyone had a landline, smartphones were non-existent and call display was rare, I once had a part-time job conducting market research phone surveys. We’d start with numbers in Atlantic Canada and end the shift calling British Columbia, following the time zones to catch people when they were most likely to be
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Farmers caught in C-234 partisan conflict

Bill C-234 seems set to languish with Senate amendments

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Liberals are defending their pet policy while Conservatives are seeing blood in the electoral waters, likely leaving farmers holding the bag on Bill C-234, analysts say. “The ones who get hurt by this are farmers,” said Dave Carey, vice-president of government and industry relations with the Canadian Canola Growers Association. Why it matters: Bill C-234
Swathed canola dries down in preparation of harvest in Manitoba's Interlake.
Grain Markets, Markets

Several factors weigh on canola prices

Will canola now recover, or continue to spiral downward?

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After continuing to take a barrage of heavy hits during the week of Dec. 1 to 7, canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange are now faced with a fork in the road. They can either resume the downward spiral, busting through support level after support level, or they could see successive increases that could bring
Global Clean Energy owns 20 patented spring and winter varieties of camelina. One of the newest varieties has confirmed resistance to imazamox and imazethapyr, the active ingredients in BASF’s Beyond and Pursuit Group 2 herbicides.
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Camelina boosters see bright future ahead

Largest firm in sector sees potential for quick acreage growth over next decade

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Glacier FarmMedia – Camelina is poised for takeoff as the renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel industries ramp up, says a promoter of the crop. Mike Karst, senior vice-president of Global Clean Energy and president of its subsidiary, Sustainable Oils, has been promoting the oilseed since 2007. There have been many momentum ebbs and flows

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