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Yield, production increases expected from USDA

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 10, 2020

MarketsFarm — Market expectations ahead of a crop production report due out Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are for increases in U.S. soybean and corn yields. “I get the sense the trade is looking for the USDA to up corn yields by 1.9 bushels per acre, to 180.4 bu./ac., while soy yields are

Grain Markets, Markets

Little to shake canola from being range-bound

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 3, 2019

Despite two reports over the last 10 days, there hasn’t been anything significant enough to shake canola from being range-bound. As the markets waited with breath held for the latest supply-and-demand report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released August 12, there was speculation the report would have a strong spillover effect on

Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan production report may show stronger yields

By GFM Network News August 23, 2019

MarketsFarm — A challenging growing season across the Prairies has left questions in the market ahead of Statistics Canada’s production report, due out Wednesday. “It’s hard to get a handle on canola this year because, at this stage, the farmers are going to be a bit conservative and err on the side of caution,” said

Crops, Markets

U.S. delays key agriculture reports due to government shutdown

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen January 4, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) delayed several major domestic and world crop reports because of the two-week-old partial government shutdown, the agency said on Friday. New release dates for the monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report and other data originally scheduled for Friday, Jan. 11, will be

Statistics Canada’s model-based report is based in part on data from sensors on the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) series of satellites. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), shown here for Sept. 16 over an NOAA satellite map of North America, is used to gauge surface vegetation content. (OSPO.noaa.gov)

Crops, Markets

Canola, wheat crop size hiked in StatsCan’s view from space

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 19, 2018

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada raised its production estimates for most crops across Western Canada in its latest report released Wednesday. Unlike traditional StatsCan reports using information gathered from phone surveys, the model-based report was based in part on coarse-resolution satellite imagery collected during the month of August. The model-based report has only been in

Crops, Markets

Canola stocks comfortable, eyes on new crop

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 11, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian canola stocks are rather large heading into the new growing season, but attention now is firmly on new-crop production. Statistics Canada on Friday pegged canola supplies in the country as of March 31 at 9.1 million tonnes, the second-largest on record for that time of year and about 1.1 million tonnes

Crops, Markets

Trade expecting bigger canola, wheat numbers from StatsCan

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 30, 2017

Reuters — Canadian farmers harvested the biggest canola crop on record, slightly larger than was expected in September, a Reuters survey of 15 traders and analysts showed ahead of a key government report. Wheat production is also seen higher than earlier expectations, as favourable weather produced big yields. Statistics Canada will release its final crop

Crops, Markets

StatsCan production survey timing likely to skew results

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin August 29, 2017

CNS Canada — Production of Canada’s major crops is generally expected to be down on the year after an adverse growing season in many areas. However, actual production may not end up as low as the estimates set to be released by Statistics Canada on Thursday, due to the timing of the survey. The survey

Crops

Hogs seen as key factor in input cost hikes

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries July 11, 2017

CNS Canada — Canada’s Farm Input Price Index has climbed slightly for the first quarter of this year. Canada-wide, the index rose 1.3 per cent for the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of 2016. When comparing this year’s first quarter to last year’s first quarter, however, input prices in the

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn hit two-week lows on long liquidation

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen February 24, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to a two-week low on Friday and corn hit a 2-1/2-week low on technical selling including fund long liquidation, analysts said. Soybeans closed modestly higher, bouncing after the spot March contract hit a six-week low. Chicago Board of Trade March wheat settled down 6-3/4 cents at $4.31-1/4

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Tag Archives crop production

Yield, production increases expected from USDA

Little to shake canola from being range-bound

StatsCan production report may show stronger yields

U.S. delays key agriculture reports due to government shutdown

Canola, wheat crop size hiked in StatsCan’s view from space

Canola stocks comfortable, eyes on new crop

Trade expecting bigger canola, wheat numbers from StatsCan

StatsCan production survey timing likely to skew results

Hogs seen as key factor in input cost hikes

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn hit two-week lows on long liquidation

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