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Food deflation troubling

Consumers may welcome cheaper food, but it spells challenges for the food industry  right through to the primary producer

By Sylvain Charlebois October 11, 2016

It is becoming cheaper to buy food in Canada. Canada experienced deflationary food prices in August for the first time in years. While consumers may be delighted to see food prices decline, August numbers are pointing to a significant challenge for the food industry. Making money in the food business is not what it used

Livestock

Farm gate prices fall in August on meat, dairy

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 30, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian producer prices unexpectedly fell in August as meat and dairy products saw the largest decrease in nearly nine years, while lower prices for energy and petroleum products also weighed, data from Statistics Canada showed on Friday. The 0.5 per cent decline in producer prices fell well short of analysts’ expectations

The Northern Lights over Winnipeg as seen from the International Space Station in January 2012. (NASA.gov)

Crops, Weather

Grain trade still wary of satellite-based StatsCan estimates

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 20, 2016

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada’s second attempt at using satellite imagery to determine the size of the country’s crops is in line with trade guesses when it comes to canola — but market participants are still taking the new methodology with a grain of salt. The model-based principal field crop estimates, released Tuesday, are calculated

Brown mustard. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

Mustard bids drop with demand, harvest progress

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus September 20, 2016

CNS Canada — Mustard spot prices are trending lower, with limited demand for the commodity as harvest progresses. Weather conditions may have curbed yield potential, to an extent, though production is still expected to be large, according to one market participant. Bids for mustard have dropped from the levels seen in July and August into

Crops, Markets

Statistics data safe, official says, after agency head quits

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 19, 2016

Ottawa | Reuters — Statistics Canada data is safely stored and outsiders have no chance of accessing it, a senior official said on Monday after the chief statistician quit in protest over concerns about the agency’s independence. Canada’s Liberal government, which took power last November, is trying to resolve a number of major technological problems

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Export uncertainty dogs canola

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 14, 2016

CNS Canada — Canola futures don’t appear ready to climb drastically higher anytime soon as uncertainty over Chinese buying weighs on the market, according to a Winnipeg trader and analyst. The recent grain stocks report compiled by Statistics Canada has become a source of pressure for canola, said Ken Ball of PI Financial. StatsCan’s report

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops

Large old-crop canola stocks raise new-crop questions

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 7, 2016

CNS Canada — Canada grew a million more tonnes of canola in 2015-16 than originally reported, according to updated numbers from Statistics Canada, released Wednesday in connection with the Stocks of Principal Field Crops as of July 31 report. The unexpected revision to the old-crop production now has many industry participants questioning just how large

Crops, Markets

Quality Canadian durum may be in short supply

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 7, 2016

CNS Canada — Quality issues with the Canadian durum crop currently being harvested should see the price spreads between top- and low-end grain widen considerably, especially as the carryout from the previous year is also poor quality. Canadian durum stocks, as of July 31, were pegged at 1.1 million tonnes by Statistics Canada in a

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Stocks add softer undertone to market

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus September 7, 2016

CNS Canada –– A stocks report from Statistics Canada has changed the dynamic of the canola market, one analyst says, though prices are not expected to plummet. Statistics Canada estimates canola stocks at 2.016 million tonnes as of July 31. The government agency also upwardly revised year-ago production numbers. “It causes a fairly significant shift

Crops, Markets

Canada’s canola, wheat stocks shrink less than expected

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 7, 2016

Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian canola and wheat stockpiles were sharply lower in midsummer from a year earlier, the smallest in three years, but bigger than expected, a Statistics Canada report showed on Wednesday. StatsCan pegged all-wheat stocks as of July 31 at 5.2 million tonnes, down 27 per cent from a year ago but

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Statistics Canada

Food deflation troubling

Farm gate prices fall in August on meat, dairy

Grain trade still wary of satellite-based StatsCan estimates

Mustard bids drop with demand, harvest progress

Statistics data safe, official says, after agency head quits

ICE weekly outlook: Export uncertainty dogs canola

Large old-crop canola stocks raise new-crop questions

Quality Canadian durum may be in short supply

ICE weekly outlook: Stocks add softer undertone to market

Canada’s canola, wheat stocks shrink less than expected

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