Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s no surprise to growers, but canola seed is getting more expensive every year. “Upward annual price change for canola seed has been an ongoing trend for some time,” Alberta Agriculture market analyst Ryan Furtas said in a recent Agri-News note. During the most recent September-May period, the average price for Roundup Ready canola rose […] Read more
Rising canola seed costs a familiar story
Grants available for adopting 4R
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canola Council of Canada has launched a new program, called the Canola 4R Advantage, that will offer up to $12,000 per farm for implementing 4R stewardship practices. The funding (from Ottawa’s On-Farm Climate Action Fund) will reimburse growers for up to 85 per cent of their costs in four areas: soil testing, enhanced efficiency […] Read more
Lime shows promise for controlling clubroot in canola
The lime works by neutralizing the highly acidic soil preferred by clubroot, reducing the likelihood of spore germination and plant infection
Reading Time: 2 minutes Treating soil with lime could help farmers curtail clubroot infections in canola, new University of Alberta research suggests. Spot-treating soil with the mineral reduced the overall occurrence and severity of the disease by 35 to 91 per cent, growth experiments showed. The finding, published in the Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, could give farmers an […] Read more
Canada, China agree to suspend WTO canola dispute
Lifting of canola ban renders case moot
Berlin | Reuters — Canada and China have agreed to suspend proceedings against Chinese measures affecting the importation of Canadian canola seed, according to a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint on Thursday. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) panel suspended its work as of Tuesday, the complaint said. Work can be suspended at any time […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Crush margins guiding canola demand
MarketsFarm — Enormous canola crush margins will lead to increased demand for the Canadian oilseed, according to MarketsFarm’s director of markets and weather Bruce Burnett. As of Tuesday, the nearby November-October margins were estimated at $215.51 per tonne, while the same position for November-October 2023 now stands at $124.48/tonne. This time last year their margins […] Read more
Don’t be too hasty to harvest your canola
Canola Council launches campaign to persuade farmers of the benefits of patience
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canola Council of Canada is encouraging farmers to hold off on harvesting canola so yield improves. Research in the early 2000s showed that canola swathed at 60-70 per cent seed colour change (SCC) yielded 11 per cent more than fields swathed at 30-40 per cent. That research was reinforced in 2013, when the Indian […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Time gap too large in StatCan report
Canola's potential yields shrank in meantime
MarketsFarm — There has been about a one-month gap in between Statistics Canada having gathered its data for next week’s principal crops report and actually releasing the report. That’s something trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg finds irksome. “They’re using computer models of some kind. You would think they could get this out […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Canola could take a nosedive
'I think (farmers) are undersold'
MarketsFarm — A huge drop in canola prices could be looming, according to analyst Wayne Palmer of Exceed Grain in Winnipeg. Palmer pointed to Prairie farmers and said, “I think they are undersold.” He surmised too many farmers have held off from selling their canola, in hopes of getting a great price the next time […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Late canola crop hinges on weather
MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market held within a narrow range during the week ended Wednesday, with weather conditions heading into harvest likely to dictate the eventual price direction over the next few weeks. “The key right now is the late state of the crop,” said Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, noting […] Read more
Slow canola emergence: farmers call for standardized vigour testing
Dozens of farmers took to social media this spring to voice concern over alleged slowly emerging canola, but as harvest approaches, so far there are no answers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Planting canola is expensive. Some estimates are as high as $450,000 per 1,000 acres, not including land and equipment costs. So imagine the concerns of many farmers this spring when they encountered slow emergence with some canola hybrids. The most expensive crop ever planted threatened to crush the dreams of farmers eager for a comeback […] Read more
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