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The changing face of Canadian farms

A close look at the current census will give us a chance to examine the evolution of Canadian agriculture

By Alfons Weersink June 14, 2016

Every five years, Canada’s federal government asks us to provide details on who lives in our household. The demographic information is used to guide decisions ranging from school planning to transportation infrastructure to government transfers. Among the census questions is one that asks if you intend to sell agricultural produce. This may strike most as

Livestock, Markets

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

By Erin Debooy, GFM Network News June 10, 2016

CNS Canada –– Relatively soft feed grain prices over the past year mean producers of supply-managed commodities, such as milk and eggs, have also received lower prices for their products. Such is the interpretation of industry participants accounting for declines in the latest Farm Price Index data released by Statistics Canada. The livestock and animal

Crops, Markets

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian canola and wheat supplies are much tighter heading into the final months of the 2015-16 crop year than they were at the same point a year ago, according to Statistics Canada’s latest stocks report. StatsCan pegged the country’s canola stocks, as of March 31, at 7.49 million tonnes in its report

Crops, Markets

StatsCan grain stocks data to confirm feed demand, production

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 4, 2016

CNS Canada — Just how much barley did Canadian cattle eat over the past winter? Will there be any old-crop wheat left over this year? And how much canola was really grown in 2015? Answers to these questions and more will be closer to being found when Statistics Canada releases its latest stocks data on

Crops, Markets

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 26, 2016

CNS Canada — Lukewarm prices for oats, coupled with dry conditions in Alberta and soggy conditions in Manitoba, are crimping acreage this year. Generally known as one of the hardier crops around, oats haven’t been setting any record highs on price charts, resulting in a forecast of 11 per cent less acreage in Canada. “The

Crops, Markets

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 22, 2016

CNS Canada –– Increased durum acres in Canada may limit the upside potential as far as prices are concerned, but smaller spring wheat plantings will also limit the downside, according to a durum trader. Statistics Canada on Thursday pegged intended durum acres at 6.12 million acres, which would be up from 5.82 million in 2015.

Crops, Weather

Record-low summerfallow expected

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Changing farm practices and moving world markets over the years have seen shifts in the makeup of the crops grown in Canada — but the most noticeable change in the past three decades may be the amount of land seeded to nothing. Heading into the 2016 growing season, Canadian farmers say they

Crops, Markets

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers will be seeding record acres of peas and lentils this spring, as expected, but the increases to pulse crops are coming at the expense of canola — which saw acres come in below expectations in a report out from Statistics Canada. In its first acreage survey of the year, released

Crops

Flax expected to lose a third of acres

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Canada’s flax acres are expected to fall about a third from last year’s levels, according to Statistics Canada data. One market participant says weaker prices have influenced farmers, while another says smaller crops are often overlooked during surveys. StatsCan estimates flax’s seeded area at about 1.1 million acres, compared with 1.6 million acres

Crops, Markets

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel April 21, 2016

Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola than expected, and will sow record-large areas with pulse crops, according to the government’s first farmer survey of crop sowings for 2016, released on Thursday. Wheat seedings are also expected to decline, but not as much as traders and analysts expected on average. Statistics Canada estimated that

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Tag Archives Statistics Canada

The changing face of Canadian farms

Lower feed costs weigh on supply-managed goods

StatsCan report confirms tightening canola, wheat supplies

StatsCan grain stocks data to confirm feed demand, production

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

Record-low summerfallow expected

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

Flax expected to lose a third of acres

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

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