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The canola calamity
Farmit Manitoba, Oilseeds

The canola calamity

A hard harvest and tough storage season underline the need for a plan

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Last fall’s “harvest from hell” was like a laundry list of what could go wrong. First there was a drought for much of the growing season reducing yields. Then as harvest approached, Mother Nature turned on the taps at just the wrong time and kept them on. Throw in a Thanksgiving snowstorm and you’ve got
Canola council: Widen the scope on clubroot management
News, Oilseeds

Canola council: Widen the scope on clubroot management

The Canola Council of Canada wants producers to layer their clubroot management strategies

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The Canola Council of Canada wants you to take a shotgun to your field — at least when it comes to clubroot. [AUDIO: ‘Are we taking clubroot seriously enough?’ – Justine Cornelsen and Dan Orchard] Council agronomists are urging farmers to avoid building a clubroot plan around a single silver bullet. Instead, agronomists Justine Cornelsen
Employees at the Tiplam terminal in Santos, Brazil load soybeans on a cargo ship bound for China on March 13, 2017.
Markets, Oilseeds

Beijing is in control of global soybean market

China’s demand is dropping as it commits to more U.S. supplies

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China is pretty much in control of the global soybean market, and could stay in that position for the rest of 2020. Following the signing of the Phase 1 trade pact between the United States and China, it was widely expected soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) would shoot up — especially since the deal requires China to dramatically increase its agricultural purchases from the U.S.
A truck unloads soybeans imported from Brazil on the quay of a port in Nantong city, east China’s Jiangsu province.
Markets, Oilseeds

Chinese importers scoop up Brazilian soybeans

Uncertainty over a U.S.-China trade deal has been causing buyers to lock up supplies

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Chinese buyers scooped up at least 20 cargoes of Brazilian soybeans last week as uncertainty over a trade deal with the United States sent them rushing to lock in supplies, traders said Nov. 25. Importers also jumped on the new-crop Brazilian beans because of attractive margins, said two traders who declined to be identified. The purchases were for
Argentine farmers plant more soybeans
Markets, Oilseeds

Argentine farmers plant more soybeans

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Argentina’s government and the country’s main grains exchange increased their soy-planting estimates Nov. 21, as growers hedge against political uncertainty by shifting toward oilseeds, which are cheaper to grow, and away from more expensive corn. Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez, set to take office on Dec. 10, has said little about his farm policy plans. But
A man works next to a truck unloading second corn (winter corn) near Sorriso 
in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil.
News, Oilseeds

Lack of rain puts Brazil corn crop at risk

Soy planting delays will mean a very tight window to plant ‘second corn’

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Reuters – Delays in Brazil’s soybean planting due to scarce rainfall may affect sowing of the country’s second corn crop, which is planted after the oilseed is harvested and represents about 73 per cent of the South American output. “There is a lot of risk for the (corn) crop,” Antonio Galvan, head of the Mato Grosso state grain growers’ association,
Canada working to diversify canola seed sales
News, Oilseeds

Canada working to diversify canola seed sales

This crop year exports to several countries have risen

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Canada is working to diversify its canola seed sales, says Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s vice-president of public affairs. “As an industry we are doing what we can to diversify,” Innes said in an interview from Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 28 where Canada and China had their first face-to-face meeting over the canola dispute.
Signs of blackleg in a canola seedling.
Crops, News, Oilseeds

New tool on the way for canola growers safeguards against blackleg

Saltro is a new seed treatment to control blackleg at the seedling stage expected to be available for the 2021 growing season

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A new fungicide to protect canola seedlings from blackleg, a major yield-robbing disease, could be available as a seed treatment for the 2021 growing season. It’s called Saltro and was developed by Syngenta. “Syngenta anticipates registration in time to make it available for use in the 2021 growing season,” Sarah Osborne, company marketing operations manager,
Canola production on the Prairies takes a weather hit
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola production on the Prairies takes a weather hit

But that effect on production may have already been digested by the market

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Poor harvest weather definitely cut into the size and quality of this year’s Canadian canola crop, with a large percentage still in the fields heading into the end of October. However, that supportive supply-side story may be factored into the futures for the time being, with the market now in need of some fresh demand
With the number of days in harvest 2019 diminishing, canola prices have had a recent lift.
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

As snow falls, canola market rises

Weather alone won’t sustain canola’s rally for long

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An early winter storm on the western Prairies and persistent cool and wet conditions to the east put the brakes on harvest operations during the first few days of October, with canola futures finding some support on the back of adverse weather. After holding within a sideways trading range for the past three months, the

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