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ICE predicts interest in futures contracts will pick up

By Dwayne Klassen November 15, 2012

The head of ICE Canada is optimistic interest will pick up in the 10-month-old milling wheat, durum and barley futures contracts. Open interest in all three commodities is confined to the two nearby months and trading volumes have been very low. “There have been discussions held with a subsection of the group who helped create

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Super-storm Sandy and presidential speculation

By Dwayne Klassen November 15, 2012

CNS Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform suffered some significant losses during the week ended November 2 with the declines associated with market participants bailing out of long positions. The taking of profits accounted for a portion of this selling, but the inability of technical support to hold in a number of contracts, prompted

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Short canola supplies force buyers to be creative

By Dwayne Klassen November 9, 2012

There has been little uptake in new milling wheat, durum and barley contracts, which puts their futures in doubt

Steady demand provided canola futures on the ICE Canada platform with plenty of support during the week ended Oct. 26. Much of the demand was associated with the emergence of fresh Chinese buying interest, with at least three cargoes of Canadian canola purchased by the country. There were hints that additional sales were made, but

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Reports confirm expectations of tight canola supplies

By Dwayne Klassen October 26, 2012

The threat of tighter-than-anticipated supplies kept canola futures on the ICE Canada platform on a firm note during the week ended Oc. 19. Talk of fresh export demand and the general firmness of CBOT soybean futures also encouraged the price advances in canola. Domestic processors also continued to be good buyers of canola during the

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Manitoba oat prices near historic highs

By Terryn Shiells October 26, 2012

Cash bids for oats in Manitoba have soared to a level near historic highs, industry officials said. Some Manitoba oat farmers were receiving up to $4 per bushel as of Oct. 22, Warren Alexander, a commodity trader with Emerson Milling, in Emerson said. “This price level, historically, seems to be the high,” he said. “Prices

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U.S. opposes strategic grain stocks

October 26, 2012

The United States does not support the idea of creating strategic grains stocks to tame volatile food prices, a U.S. representative told a ministerial meeting on the food market situation at the United Nations’ food agency Oct. 16. “The United States generally opposes the creation of regional or global food reserve systems to manage price

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Expect demand rationing after StatsCan canola report

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 17, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts managed to move higher during the week ended Oct. 5 — but not before first hitting their weakest levels since June. Speculative long liquidation and spillover from the harvest pressure weighing on U.S. soybeans weighed on canola prices for the first few days of the week. However, technical support was

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Disappointing Canada canola harvest sets off battle for supplies

By Rod Nickel October 17, 2012

A disappointing Canadian canola crop is setting up a tug of war between domestic crushers and exporters over supplies, with global vegetable oil markets already stretched tight by a drought-damaged U.S. soybean crop. Canadian farmers were expected to shatter the record for canola production and harvest 15.4 million tonnes of the oilseed in 2012-13, according

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Funds trample market fundamentals in fleeing canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 10, 2012

The ICE Futures Canada canola market continued to fall apart during the week ended Sept. 28, as speculative long liquidation took precedence over any fundamental support that might still be there. The most active November contract fell below the psychological $600 per tonne level during the week, and settled below that key chart point for

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Higher U.S. wheat plantings likely — and needed

By Gavin Maguire October 10, 2012

Production problems haven’t left markets short yet but that could change if Australian growers  continue to suffer from a lack of rainfall, which would set the stage for a wheat rally

Reuters / Stubbornly high prices have served to keep U.S. wheat out of contention on the export market in recent months, but a broad jump in winter wheat acreage coupled with growing overseas demand could change that picture. It’s no surprise that farmers in top hard red wheat states such as Kansas are upping their

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ICE predicts interest in futures contracts will pick up

Super-storm Sandy and presidential speculation

Short canola supplies force buyers to be creative

Reports confirm expectations of tight canola supplies

Manitoba oat prices near historic highs

U.S. opposes strategic grain stocks

Expect demand rationing after StatsCan canola report

Disappointing Canada canola harvest sets off battle for supplies

Funds trample market fundamentals in fleeing canola

Higher U.S. wheat plantings likely — and needed

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