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2020 will be a year that the vast majority will want to forget as the pandemic disrupted markets worldwide and impacted every aspect of daily life. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

2020 grain market review: The year that felt like a decade

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 30, 2020

MarketsFarm – The column in this space a year ago led with the line ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’ That line was a jumping off point for a decade-in-review piece pointing out some of the through lines of the grain markets during the previous ten years. Well, the pandemic hit

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Canadian canola crush running strong

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team December 23, 2020

Canada’s canola crush is running slightly ahead of the year ago level, according to updated data from Statistics Canada. With 917,992 tonnes of the oilseed crushed in November, the 2020/21 (Aug/Jul) crop-year-to-date total of 3.465 million tonnes compares with the 3.309 million tonnes processed during the same timeframe the previous year. The November canola crush

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CBOT weekly outlook: Export demand underpins commodities

By GFM Network News September 9, 2020

MarketsFarm — Commodity prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) have found support from recent increases in global export demand. China has purchased nearly 900,000 tonnes of soybeans for delivery during the current marketing year, which began on Sept. 1. “It’s all about Chinese demand,” said Terry Reilly of Futures International in Chicago. “They

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Adjustments likely ahead for StatsCan’s early acreage estimates

Projections still in line with grain trade's expectations

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 7, 2020

MarketsFarm — The results of the first acreage estimates for 2020 from Statistics Canada come with an asterisk, as the COVID-19 pandemic halted data collection early. Canada’s actual seeded area is expected to see some shifts from the projections released Thursday. “As a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, these estimates were produced

Precipitation across the Prairies over the two weeks ending April 8, 2020. (Map courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Burnett on Markets: Weather woes span the Prairies

By Bruce Burnett, GFM Network News April 9, 2020

The weather during the last half of March provided some optimism about a normal start to spring. Farmers across the Prairies were preparing equipment, taking delivery of seed and fertilizer and looking forward to getting out into the field. Then the weather in early April dropped significant amounts of rain and snow across northern and

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U.S. projects wheat acres at record lows, increases for soy, corn

Grain stocks as of March 1 down on year

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 31, 2020

MarketsFarm — As with last year, total wheat acres in the United States are projected to remain at all-time lows, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department issued its prospective plantings estimates Tuesday. MarketsFarm director of markets and weather Bruce Burnett called USDA’s wheat and soybean estimates positive, while he said its

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Burnett on Markets: Suddenly agriculture is important

COVID-19 is putting food security in the spotlight

By GFM Network News March 27, 2020

MarketsFarm — A trend has developed in the business news channels over the past week that has not been hard to miss. Suddenly the CEOs of big agriculture and food concerns are being featured front and centre during the business segments. Usually these companies are noted only when they release quarterly results and even then

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CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn wait for next big thing

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin February 13, 2020

MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade have recovered off of nearby lows, but remain rangebound overall waiting for fresh news to push values one way or the other. The U.S. Department of Agriculture holds its Agriculture Outlook Forum on Feb. 20-21. USDA’s first acreage and supply/demand estimates for the

Following the spring melt, prairie weather is expected to be on the drier side. Photo: Thinkstock

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Early 2020 forecast points to cooler, drier Prairie spring

By GFM Network News December 23, 2019

MarketsFarm – After 2019’s dry growing season and messy harvest, 2020 may have fairer skies in store for producers across the Canadian Prairies. Following the spring melt, weather in the Prairies is expected to show a bias to the drier side, which will keep excess soil moisture at bay following wet conditions last fall. “The

As much as 50 per cent of India’s dal crop was damaged this year due to waterlogging. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

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India looking to import pulses

By GFM Network News November 12, 2019

MarketsFarm – Although India has prioritized producing their country’s own pulses self-sufficiently, unprecedented rainfall in October and November could turn the country back to relying on imports. A statement from the chairman of the Indian Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), Zaverchand Bheda, said as much as 50 per cent of the urad pulse crop was

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2020 grain market review: The year that felt like a decade

Canadian canola crush running strong

CBOT weekly outlook: Export demand underpins commodities

Adjustments likely ahead for StatsCan’s early acreage estimates

Burnett on Markets: Weather woes span the Prairies

U.S. projects wheat acres at record lows, increases for soy, corn

Burnett on Markets: Suddenly agriculture is important

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn wait for next big thing

Early 2020 forecast points to cooler, drier Prairie spring

India looking to import pulses

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