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The Canola Council of Canada is reviewing its priorities in the wake of losing Richardson International, Canada’s largest grain company, says president Jim Everson. The company declined to renew its membership in 2018.

Canola council reviewing priorities

Richardson withdrawal prompts soul-searching session at AGM

By Allan Dawson March 15, 2018

Outside the Canola Council of Canada’s annual business meeting March 8 there were palm tress, cacti and deep-blue Kodachrome skies offering a respite from Western Canada’s cold and snow. But inside was an elephant, acknowledged, but never named, called Richardson International. The nod came when council president Jim Everson announced the council is reviewing its

Grain Markets, Markets

Chicago soy, lower loonie give boost to May canola

In U.S. dollars, the commodity’s value is actually down

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 9, 2018

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved to their highest levels in three months during the week ended March 2, having posted gains for 10 straight sessions. Losses in the Canadian dollar and gains in Chicago Board of Trade soybeans helped keep speculators on the buy side. While the May canola contract rose by $25 per

Canada’s International Trade Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne goes in to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on March 8 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Reuters/Ivan Alvarado)

Markets

Asia-Pacific nations sign sweeping trade deal without U.S.

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

Santiago | Reuters — Eleven countries including Canada and Japan signed a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement without the U.S. on Thursday in what one minister called a powerful signal against protectionism and trade wars. The deal came as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed earlier in the day to press ahead with a plan to impose

Manitoba Canola Growers Association president Chuck Fossay (l) presented Teulon farmer and former seed grower Murray McConnell with the Canola Award of Excellence for 2018 in recognition of his contribution as an early canola seed grower.

Local news, News

Early canola seed grower recognized

The 85-year-old farmer was one of the earliest seed growers to try the new crop

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 5, 2018

Murray McConnell, a pioneer canola seed grower, received the Canola Award of Excellence for 2018 from the Manitoba Seed Growers Association (MCGA) at the CropConnect banquet in Winnipeg Feb. 14. McConnell, 85, who farms near Teulon, Man., grew some canola plots for Baldur Stefansson, a University of Manitoba plant breeder and one of the developers

Crops, Markets

Canola nearing chart resistance

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 5, 2018

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market remains in a steady uptrend from a chart standpoint, with the May contract posting gains Monday for the 11th straight session. However, the futures are getting very close to upper resistance. May canola settled Monday at $530.50 per tonne, after climbing by roughly $30 over the

Grain Markets, Markets

Soybeans’ strength doesn’t sustain canola’s rally

Large corn supplies keep cash prices under pressure

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 22, 2018

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts hit their best levels in two months during the week ended Feb. 16, but ran out of gas and retreated from those highs despite continued strength in Chicago soybeans. After rallying above the psychological $500-per-tonne mark on Monday (Feb. 12), March canola spent the next few days making attempts at

(Video screengrab from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada via YouTube)

Crops

Plant protein supercluster makes cut for federal funding

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 15, 2018

At the table with artificial intelligence, big data, advanced manufacturing and ocean-based energy, Prairie pulse, oilseed and cereal crops are in for a share of federal support to spur innovation in Canada. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains on Thursday announced Protein Industries Canada (PIC) as one of five “superclusters” which will receive

Grain Markets, Markets, Oilseeds

Canola rides out turbulence in world financial markets

A lower loonie lent support to Canadian canola demand

By Dave Sims February 15, 2018

It was a turbulent week for world financial markets but canola shrugged off much of the volatility and held firm, thanks in large part to weakness in the Canadian dollar. In fact, the market even showed a bit of bullishness as the front-month March contract broke through the psychologically important $500-per-tonne mark during the week

Crops, Local news

Crop yield records broken across the board

The 2018 edition of Yield Manitoba with this week’s Co-operator has all the details

By Allan Dawson February 15, 2018

It’s official. Many Manitoba yield records were broken in 2017, despite a drier-than-normal growing season. That’s what crop insurance data collected by the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) show. The information is in Yield Manitoba 2018, a supplement to this week’s Manitoba Co-operator. Of the 13 insured crops Yield Manitoba tracks for annual comparisons, eight

Crops

Early canola promoter Gordon Graham, 89

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 13, 2018

A memorial is to be held in June in Brandon for a Prairie farmer who helped lead the charge on adoption of rapeseed as a crop, as it morphed into today’s canola. Gordon Graham, who farmed near Newdale, Man., about 75 km north of Brandon, died Wednesday at age 89 in Cochrane, Alta. Graham, an

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

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