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Producers with early contracts received good prices, especially for organic crops such as oats and flax. Photo: File/Greg Berg

Oats swinging higher, but rangebound

Futures no longer connected to cash market

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 6, 2025

As oat futures fluctuate on the Chicago Board of Trade, they remain rangebound, said Progressive Ag analyst Tom Lilja in Fargo, N.D. However, to Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada in Yorkton, Sask. there’s a disconnect between those futures and cash prices for oats.

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Canola stocks shrink, wheat nudges up

StatCan issues stock report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 7, 2025

With a decline of 19.2 per cent, total canola stocks in Canada dropped from a year ago, while all wheat stocks bumped up 0.9 per cent, Statistics Canada reported on Feb. 7.

File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

Facing Trump tariffs on piglets and crops, Canadian farmers revise sales plans

By Ed White, Reuters January 31, 2025

Canadian farmers are renegotiating livestock contracts with U.S. buyers and finding local markets for crops they previously planned to sell south of the border to minimize the economic hit from potential new U.S. tariffs.

Cereals, Markets

Upswings in most December grain deliveries

Declines in rye, flax

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 29, 2025

Deliveries of major grains increased from December to December, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Jan. 29.

Canola plants in bloom photographed from below looking up to a gray sky.

News

Tariff threat already disrupting ag trade

By Robert Arnason January 27, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — In 2023, Canada shipped $8.6 billion worth of canola products to the United States. The vast majority of that was canola oil and meal, which was valued at $8.3 billion. However, those exports were disrupted in the first couple of weeks of January as canola crushers on the Prairies waited on the

Adjusting to a market with U.S. tariffs in play would require adjustment from Canada’s wheat sector.

Crops

Wheat sector still expecting tariff hit

Trump administration tariffs against Canada probably wouldn’t hit wheat as badly as oats or canola, but sector says less impact is not no impact

By Jeff Melchior January 26, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs probably wouldn’t hit Canadian wheat as badly as oats or canola, but sector says less impact is not no impact

Cereals, Crops, News, Pulses

AAFC forecasts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2025

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 20, 2025

Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and coarse grains in 2025 at the expense of oilseeds, according to the first supply/demand projections for the 2025/26 marketing year from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Jan. 20.

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Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Feds’ conditions not near enough to alleviate concerns

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2025

The National Farmers Union denounced the approval of the Bunge-Viterra merger in a statement released on Jan. 17. The NFU said the multi-billion dollar deal “effectively ends competition in Canada’s agricultural commodity sector,” as it creates the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader, and it will control 40 per cent of the Canadian grain market.

Crops, News

Crop Production Show 2025: Oat beers having a moment

By Delaney Seiferling January 16, 2025

Market demand and unique grain traits make oats an increasingly attractive ingredient for craft beers, says Sask. brewer at the 2025 Crop Production Show in Saskatoon

“I’ll be quite surprised if he (U.S. president-elect Donald Trump) doesn’t implement the tariffs on his first day,” said oat market analyst Randy Strychar at the SaskOats 2025 annual general meeting held today during Crop Week in Saskatoon. | File photo

Markets, News

Crop Production Show 2025: U.S. tariffs could impact Canadian oat market as early as next week

By Delaney Seiferling January 16, 2025

Producers shouldn't panic just yet, says oat market analyst at the 2025 Crop Production show

Ag in Motion innovation awards showcase top 2025 ag technology

U.S. pulse group commits to doubling production in five years

Klassen: Western Canadian calf markets surge on New World screwworm fears

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