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Mike Jubinville (r) and Bruce Burnett at the Ag in Motion 2018 farm show. (Gord Gilmour photo)

ProFarmer Canada joins Glacier FarmMedia

Glacier FarmMedia, Canada’s largest farm publisher and the operator of this website, has just boosted its long position in grain and oilseed market analysis. The Winnipeg company announced Tuesday it has acquired ProFarmer Canada, the marketing information service owned and operated by Mike Jubinville, whose analyses of Prairie crop commodity markets are well known to

News, Oilseeds

Canola prices entering sideways trend

The old highs have become the new lows

By Shannon VanRaes December 22, 2014

Canola prices are tracking the overall trend towards lower commodity prices this year, but there is still room for some comfortable margins, a prominent market analyst says. Speaking at Farm Credit Canada’s Ag Outlook 2015 in Winnipeg, Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada said that while the canola markets aren’t good, they’re not really bad either.

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Dry soils, high prices prompt farmers’ return to wheat and durum

By Dwayne Klassen March 7, 2013

Farmers in drier regions of the  western Prairies flirted with canola  but are turning back to the tried and true

Attractive prices and weather issues are expected to help farmers in Canada take a serious look at seeding more acres to wheat this summer than in previous years, according to industry sources. “Last year a lot of farmers took a chance with canola given the high financial returns, but the drier-than-anticipated conditions across parts of

Cereals, News

Let the good times roll

By Allan Dawson January 7, 2013

Some scoffed when federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said farmers wouldn’t have to start their trucks in winter because in an open market they could deliver all their wheat in fall. Not Norm Mabon. The Notre Dame de Lourdes farmer did just as Ritz forecast. “One hundred per cent of my wheat was sold and

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

ICE predicts interest in futures contracts will pick up

By Dwayne Klassen November 15, 2012

The head of ICE Canada is optimistic interest will pick up in the 10-month-old milling wheat, durum and barley futures contracts. Open interest in all three commodities is confined to the two nearby months and trading volumes have been very low. “There have been discussions held with a subsection of the group who helped create

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Weather

Hot, dry weather takes its toll on canola crop

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 17, 2012

Hot, dry weather took a larger toll on the Canadian canola crop than many industry participants expected. The latest Statistics Canada survey pegs canola production at 13.4 million tonnes, a two-million-tonne drop from its previous forecast and well below the 14.5 million tonnes grown in 2011-12. Although one Winnipeg-based broker said “the number was unexpected

Cereals, Grain Markets

Canada Said To Have Sold Wheat To South Korea

By Brent Harder November 4, 2010

Canada is believed to have exported feed wheat to South Korea, although confirmation was lacking. It was reported by overseas exporters Oct. 27 that South Korea’s Major Feedmill Group bought a total of 110,000 tonnes of Canadian feed wheat in a tender at $308.25 per tonne, with arrival by Feb. 10, 2010. John Lyons, media

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Production Down: No Surprise

By Dwayne Klassen October 14, 2010

Grain and oilseed production estimates in the latest crop production survey from Statistics Canada for the period ended Sept. 9 held few surprises, according to industry sources. “Some of the production estimates were a bit smaller than had been anticipated, and that was the only real surprise,” said Ron Frost with Agri-Trend Marketing Inc. and

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

StatsCan Report Sees Bigger Barley Crop – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Dwayne Klassen September 9, 2010

Canola and barley output in Canada during the 2010-11 crop year will be larger than expected based on the production survey released by Statistics Canada Aug. 20, industry sources said. “The numbers released are very realistic but with the good weather across the Canadian Prairies since the survey was conducted, one can suggest that output

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Potential For Volatility To Continue Through August – for Aug. 19, 2010

August 19, 2010

ICE Futures Canada canola futures lost ground during the week ended Aug. 13, retracing back slightly from recent contract highs on improved crop prospects in Western Canada and the subsequent increase in production estimates. Sentiment that recent good weather has increased the size of the Canadian canola crop was noted. Based on early harvest results,

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: SPG looks back at harvest, ahead to trade

U.S. grains: Soy futures set 15-month high after China agrees to purchases

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures take a pause after recent slides

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