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Egg production on the rise

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team July 27, 2017

CNS Canada – Canadian egg production has risen 4.4 per cent in the past year, according to data released today by Statistics Canada. Canadian egg producers generated 64.5 million dozen eggs from May 2016 to May this year, said StatsCan. Placement of hatchery chicks on farms rose four percent to 65.5 million birds from June

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

Grain Markets, Markets, Oilseeds

Oilseeds see sharp gains despite bearish reports

Traders are already second-guessing StatsCan on acres

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 7, 2017

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts climbed higher over the course of the week ended June 30, hitting their best levels in months, despite large North American oilseed acres confirmed by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Record Canadian canola seedings and a six-million-acre increase in U.S. soybean area would typically be bearish for

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola futures plummet ahead of StatsCan report

Traders’ acreage estimates lean toward bearish levels

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 29, 2017

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts dropped hard during the week ended June 23, hitting some of their lowest levels in months. The biggest losses were in the new-crop months, with improving crop weather and declines in the U.S. soy complex behind some of the selling pressure. The nearby July contract lagged to the downside, as

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade looks to potential, not projections, post-StatsCan data

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus June 29, 2017

CNS Canada — The commodity trade has turned its focus forward following fresh data from Statistics Canada. “The acreage numbers are important, but this game right now is all about weather,” said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada, naming spring wheat as one crop the market had been closely watching. While estimates for all wheat seeded

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: New-crop uncertainty supports canola

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin June 28, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, despite a softer tone in the Chicago soy market, as tight old-crop supplies and chart-based buying supported the Canadian oilseed. Statistics Canada releases its updated acreage estimates on Thursday, and any surprises in the data could provide some nearby direction

Crops, Markets

StatsCan wheat acres watched closely

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin June 26, 2017

CNS Canada — Persistent concerns over the state of the U.S. spring wheat crop should place more attention than normal on Canada’s wheat area when Statistics Canada releases updated acreage estimates on Thursday. Ahead of the report, trade estimates for all-wheat area range from 21.5 million to 23.2 million acres, which would compare with the

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade sees Canadian farmers trimming wheat, canola acres

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 22, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — Soggy spring conditions in key crop-growing areas of the Canadian Prairies left farmers unable to plant as much as they intended, but canola seedings still look record-large, according to a Reuters survey of 16 traders and analysts ahead of a government report next week. Wet weather made fields sloppy in Alberta’s

Crops

Hourly employees in agriculture among lowest paid

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team June 15, 2017

CNS Canada –– Hourly-wage employees in agriculture and related production were among the lowest earners nationally, according to data from Statistics Canada. The agency on Thursday released data on wages paid to payroll employees in 2016. It reported the average hourly wage paid to full-time employees, excluding overtime pay, tips, incentives and performance pay arrangements,

Stats from 2016 show uptick in net farm income

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 25, 2017

Statistics show slightly lower costs for fertilizer, fuel and cattle and calf purchases in 2016, against higher crop sales and program payments, led to a rise in realized net farm income last year. Statistics Canada on Wednesday released data showing Canadian producers’ realized net farm income — the difference between cash receipts and operating expenses,

Daily Network News

General Mills cuts annual outlook as shoppers seek cheaper options

Canadian annual inflation rate edges down in January as gasoline costs drop

Canadian agriculture must be seen as growth sector: Blois

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