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Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Industry’s Eyes On Calendar

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Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered declines during the week ended April 29. Outright liquidation by speculative and commodity fund accounts fuelled the downward price slide. The losses were exaggerated by the triggering of sell-stop orders on the way down. Losses in CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soyoil and new-crop CBOT
Cereals, Crops, Livestock

CME Wheat Storage Plan May Hinder Feed Switch

U.S. livestock producers seeking to switch from high-cost corn to wheat in their feed rations face a hurdle from a controversial plan that makes it more profitable for grain elevators to hold on to their wheat supplies, analysts said. The CME Group’s plan, which aims to narrow the spread between soft red winter wheat futures
Cereals, Crops, News

CBOT Corn Tops Wheat For First Time In 15 Years

For the first time in 15 years, wheat prices fell below those for corn on April 12, opening the door wider for wheat to become fodder for livestock and poultry. Soft red winter wheat futures briefly traded below prices for corn at the Chicago Board of Trade, the pinnacle of corn’s climb to record highs
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Summerfallow Acres Expected To Shrink

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform regained ground during the holiday-shortened week ending April 21. Much of the upturn in values reflected the advances experienced by CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean and soyoil prices. Concerns about the weather in Western Canada and its impact on seeding operations also influenced some of
Cereals, Crops

Expanded Label For Cruiser Maxx Cereals

Acombo of three active ingredients for wireworm and disease control in wheat and barley has been cleared both for use on oats and use on the farm. Syngenta Crop Protection Canada announced April 19 it has received approval from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency to add oats to Cruiser Maxx Cereals’ label – and
Cereals, Country Crossroads

Breakfast Never Needs To Be Boring

ith the sun up earlier each morning now, many of us are getting earlier starts to the day. Mornings should always include eating breakfast, of course, yet many of us skip it. I’ve seen reports that say about 40 per cent skip breakfast, often with the notion that it will help with weight loss. (The
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Risk-Averse Investors Ignore Weather Signals

Old-crop canola con-t racts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform took it on the chin during the week ended April 15, suffering larger losses than the new-crop months. The complete lack of buying interest resulted in the nearby May and July canola futures suffering some significant declines. Steady elevator company hedge selling, prompted by
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Boost For Wheat Research

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It’s nice to see headlines about the need for more investment into wheat research these days, even if some of the stories swirling around that topic are a mite confused. Last week started with news reports in mainstream dailies across Canada citing a leaked memo from the National Research Council and reporting that genetically modified
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Waters Remain Muddied For Seeding Predictions

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform were mixed during the week ended April 8, with old-crop months down and new-crop contracts posting advances. The sell-off of the nearby May and July canola futures reflected the ample old-crop supply situation and the absence of demand from the domestic and export sectors. Talk surfaced
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

It’s Wet Across The West

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Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s Camrose, Alberta grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for planting. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and canola prices that

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