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Grain marketing for hard economic times

Manitoba farms face tight profit opportunities this year; what strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop to best financial effect?

Strong harvests in Western Canada clash with low grain prices, trade war-driven market uncertainty and high input costs. What strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop?



FILE PHOTO: Customers speak with a salesman at a BYD dealership in Sant Cugat del Valles, near Barcelona, Spain, September 12, 2025. REUTERS/ Albert Gea/File Photo

Canadian canola futures vibing

It’s Your Business: Words from China’s ambassador were interpreted positively by the canola market

Recent comments from Chinese and Canadian officials offered a shot of positive vibes that lifted ICE canola futures to their highest levels in a month, even without any actual concrete developments on the trade front.



U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Shaky trade ground threatens efforts to build Canadian agriculture

Trade uncertainty is freezing billions in agriculture investment across Canada and may pose more threat than tariffs themselves

Trade uncertainty is freezing billions in agriculture investment across Canada, which may threaten export-oriented Manitoba farms more than the tariffs spurring the uncertainty in the first place, experts tell Fields on Wheels conference.

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ICE canola weekly outlook: Off lows, but sideways trade likely

Canola futures trended higher during the week ended Oct. 15, with the November contract settling above its 20-day moving average for the first time in nearly a month. Optimism over thawing trade relations with China contributed to the gains, although the lack of any concrete movement to end the stiff tariffs on Canadian canola seed or oil tempered the advances.