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Pulse weekly outlook: Good start despite dry conditions

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 15, 2018

CNS Canada — Dry soil conditions persist across many areas of Western Canada but the outlook for pulse crops seems fairly promising in one specialist’s view. “For the pulses, seeding has been going fairly well,” said Daphne Cruise, crops extension specialist with Saskatchewan’s provincial Agriculture Knowledge Centre in Moose Jaw. “A lot of the pulses

Farmer Brian Derksen seeds wheat on May 2, 2017 near Miami, Man., about 80 km south of Portage la Prairie. (Screengrab from Allan Dawson video)

Crops, Markets

Grain trade skeptical of StatsCan’s acreage outlook

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 27, 2018

CNS Canada — After predictions of record canola area and a drop in pulse acres, traders and analysts are doubtful of Statistics Canada’s predictions for smaller canola acres, much larger wheat acres and only minor reductions in pulse acres. “It’s unusual for everybody to just be this out of whack on this report,” said Ken

Markets, Weather

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Prices of Canadian farmland were seen rising in 2017, with most sales happening in the first half of 2017 before interest rate increases and the drought in Western Canada hit. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report released Monday by Farm Credit Canada (FCC), based on 90 per cent of farmland

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade predicts fewer pulse acres, another canola record

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 23, 2018

CNS Canada — With the uncertainty regarding the pulse exports to India, it’s looking like 2018 could see more canola acres planted in Canada. Statistics Canada will release its Principal Field Crop Areas report on Friday (April 27). Last year saw Canada’s canola area at a record 23 million acres, but this year could again

A close-up of emerging corn seedlings north of London, Ont. on May 24, 2016. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, soy soar on bullish USDA plantings forecast

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen March 29, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped nearly four per cent on Thursday and soybeans surged more than two per cent after the U.S. Department of Agriculture stunned traders by projecting a year-on-year decline in soybean plantings and a larger-than-expected drop in corn acres. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures followed the firm trend,

Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy tumbles on acreage outlook

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer March 14, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures tumbled on Wednesday, pressured by technical selling and outlooks for record-large U.S. plantings this year, traders and analysts said. Chicago Board of Trade May soybean futures dropped 16-1/2 cents, or 1.7 per cent, to $10.32-1/4 per bushel (all figures US$). Prices accelerated declines at late-morning after advisory service

Crops

More canola, wheat acres expected at pulses’ expense

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team January 26, 2018

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers will seed more wheat and canola in 2018 at the expense of pulse crops, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s latest supply/demand estimates that include their first projections for the upcoming 2018-19 crop year. Total canola acres in 2018 are forecast at 24 million by the government agency, which would

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade sees Canadian farmers trimming wheat, canola acres

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 22, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — Soggy spring conditions in key crop-growing areas of the Canadian Prairies left farmers unable to plant as much as they intended, but canola seedings still look record-large, according to a Reuters survey of 16 traders and analysts ahead of a government report next week. Wet weather made fields sloppy in Alberta’s

Ag census logs more younger and female farm operators

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 11, 2017

While people age 55 and over still make up the fastest-growing segment of farmers in Canada, the latest Census of Agriculture shows slightly more producers under age 35 for the first time in five censuses. Statistics Canada’s 2016 Census of Agriculture, released Wednesday, counted 271,935 farm operators — that is, people who make management decisions

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy brace for ‘volatile’ report

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 29, 2017

CNS Canada — As traders count down the hours to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prospective plantings report on Friday, a small camp is closely watching a weather situation in the U.S. South. Showers and thunderstorms have moved across much of the U.S. southern Plains and are expected to move into the U.S. Midwest soon.

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Pulse weekly outlook: Good start despite dry conditions

Grain trade skeptical of StatsCan’s acreage outlook

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

Trade predicts fewer pulse acres, another canola record

U.S. grains: Corn, soy soar on bullish USDA plantings forecast

U.S. grains: Soy tumbles on acreage outlook

More canola, wheat acres expected at pulses’ expense

Trade sees Canadian farmers trimming wheat, canola acres

Ag census logs more younger and female farm operators

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy brace for ‘volatile’ report

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