In some cases, canola that was on the verge of being harvested was inundated by too much moisture in the form of rain and snow.

Fall harvest showed little market impact

A tough fall usually has little effect on harvest or prices in the end

The great thing about writing these articles is I get to learn along with readers. I get to answer questions and address timely topics that hopefully allow farm business owners to think differently about markets and dig deeper into common practices and beliefs or simply question conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence. So, given the attention

Up some, down more

Up some, down more

Harvest progress is slowly pushing down canola prices

The canola market see-sawed during the week ended Oct. 19 with the overall trend being to the downside as farmers were able to get back into the fields and deliveries picked up pace. From day to day the market would bounce from the red to the green. However, days in the green weren’t regaining the


(Dave Bedard photo)

Canola funds cover shorts, move to net long

CNS Canada — Speculators covered short positions in the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Tuesday, moving from a net short position to a small net long position, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Managed money and other reportable speculators moved from

Yield, quality uncertainties supportive for canola futures

Yield, quality uncertainties supportive for canola futures

New-crop canola is already making its way to market

ICE canola futures started the holiday-shortened week ended Oct. 12 by climbing to their highest levels in nearly two months, but quickly ran into resistance and trended lower. Cool, wet, harvest-delaying weather across the Prairies remained a supportive influence, but windows of opportunity were presenting themselves and canola was making its way into the commercial





Some soy is still out in the fields – now locked in snow – waiting for harvest, as seen here in a photo taken in the Interlake on Oct. 3.

Hamstrung harvest operations supportive for canola values

Son-of-NAFTA lifts the Canadian dollar, weighing on exports

Stalled harvest progress across Western Canada saw canola prices move steadily higher on the ICE Futures platform for most of the week ended Sept. 28. While cool and wet conditions should remain a supportive factor as long as they persist, activity in the Chicago soybean complex could override any weather-related strength. Manitoba farmers got most



ICE’s ticker symbol on display at the ICE-owned New York Stock Exchange in March 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Speculative short position grows in canola

CNS Canada — Large speculators continued to add to their net short positions in the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest Commitment of Traders report compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Managed money and other reportable speculators grew their net short position in canola to

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Fundamentals, trade fights help hold canola rangebound

StatsCan’s production report from space has little impact

The ICE Futures canola market continued to chop around unchanged during the week ended Sept. 21, buffeted by a conflicting mix of trade wars, weather issues, spillover losses in soybeans and harvest pressure. The $50-per-tonne level seems like a distant memory these days, as canola was content to hang above the $485 mark in the