Reuters — A canola-crushing plant owned by the Canadian unit of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus will be offline indefinitely after an explosion and fire on Friday, the company said. Firefighters are investigating the cause of the blast at the Yorkton, Sask. plant, and an assessment of the structural condition of a canola meal storage […] Read more
Dreyfus’ Sask. canola plant offline indefinitely
CGC data suggest canola quality down slightly on year
CNS Canada — The quality of Canada’s 2014 canola crop is down slightly on the year, according to early harvest data compiled by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). With 1,132 samples received as of Wednesday, approximately 88 per cent of the canola samples were graded as No. 1. That compares with 93.7 per cent of […] Read more
Blast, fire hit Dreyfus’ Sask. canola plant
Reuters — An explosion and fire on Friday morning rocked Louis Dreyfus Commodities’ canola-crushing plant at Yorkton, Sask., but the fire was later extinguished, a city official said. The explosion occurred around 9:30 a.m. CT and firefighters put it out later in the morning, City of Yorkton spokesman Roy Lanaway said. Brant Randles, president of […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Canola still married to soybeans
CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola futures were mostly higher during the week ended Wednesday, with some support coming from gains in the Chicago soy complex. Speculative-based short covering, after the January contract moved above the 30-day moving average at about $411 per tonne on Wednesday, was also bullish, according to analysts. The January […] Read more
Neonics ban results in bug damage to crops
Rapeseed crops show damage four weeks after planting
Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters – Rapeseed crops in Germany are suffering unusually high levels of insect damage this autumn following the European Union’s ban on neonics, says the German farming association DBV. Some farmers may suffer lower yields in the upcoming 2015 rapeseed harvest, it said. The EU has decided to restrict neonicotinoids which have been linked to […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Canola choppy with outside markets
CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were up and down during the week ended Wednesday, but managed to post gains overall as a weaker Canadian dollar and spillover from the advances in CBOT soybeans provided support. Whether strength in canola will continue remains to be seen. “All of these gyrations of late (in […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Canola up but hitting resistance
CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as values start to rebound slightly in the face of the advancing Prairie harvest. Despite moderate gains, one trader sees resistance ahead for values. “It is going to be tough to rally very far; buyers are going to back away […] Read more
November canola back above 30-day average
CNS Canada –– A record-large U.S. soybean crop remains a bearish anchor on Canadian canola futures — but recent activity has shifted some technical indicators higher. The November canola contract on ICE Futures Canada has held consistently below the 30-day moving average since May, but finally settled above that line on Monday. The 30-day moving […] Read more
Clubroot control strategies
The dos and dont's of clubroot
Reading Time: 2 minutes By now it’s clear. Some control strategies work. Others, says agronomist Dan Orchard, just don’t. Pulling plants from dead patches at the end of the season and looking for the disease certainly worked. But it would have worked even better if the recommendation, right from the start, had been to pull plants and check the […] Read more
Clubroot not just another disease
The response to clubroot has been uneven and often ineffective, but we need to learn from what’s worked to prevent a crisis situation
Reading Time: 3 minutes What surprised me most while researching the origins and spread of clubroot was just how devastating this disease is. Before travelling through the most affected areas and interviewing those at ground zero, I thought of clubroot as just another crop disease. It’s not. But unfortunately, many canola growers still don’t fully realize the threat they […] Read more