Reading Time: 2 minutes A larger-than-normal portion of the U.S. corn crop will likely be left standing in the fields this winter, serving as a testament to the troubled harvest of 2009 and a harbinger of challenges facing farmers in 2010, crop experts said. Any remaining corn will create extra work for farmers next spring, creating potential delays for […] Read more
Unharvested U.S. Corn May Pose Challenges This Spring
Canola: If You’re Going To Speculate, Do It On Paper
Reading Time: 2 minutes “To do a business speculation with canola, simply sell the canola into the cash market and replace the volume on paper with an ICE canola futures position.” This year’s canola crop came in late and was grown in conditions that varied considerably throughout the province. Now that the crop is in the bin, producers have […] Read more
Washington Is Supporting Your Canola
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Don Bousquet’s three-times-daily market reports, visit www.albertafarmexpress.ca Grain and oilseed prices at the ICE Canada futures market are generally higher since my last column. Canola has bounced around, but is seeing moderate gains. Strength in the U.S. soy complex, friendly technical signals, a weaker Canadian dollar and talk of export interest supported prices. Weighing […] Read more
Futures Markets Begin To Show Some Strength
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Don Bousquet’s three-times-daily market reports, visit www.albertafarmexpress.ca (November 17) Grain and oilseed prices at the ICE Canada futures market have rebounded since my last column with canola lifted by gains in the Chicago soy complex. Slower farmer selling, as the harvest winds down, also gave some support. Friendly technical signals helped to lift the […] Read more
Japan Finds GMO In Canadian Flaxseed Shipments
Reading Time: 2 minutes Japan has found genetically modified flaxseed, which has not been approved by Japan, in imports from Canada, Health Ministry officials said Nov. 16. In Japan, the bulk of flaxseed is used to produce oil for industrial uses such as the production of paint, with the waste from that process used to produce animal feed and […] Read more
Grain Price Reports Have Moved
Reading Time: < 1 minute As of October 5, the Closing Daily Grain Prices and Reported Feed Grain Prices can be found at the Alberta Canola Producers’ Commission (ACPC) website at www.canola.ab.ca. In the past, the Alberta Grain Commission (AGC) posted daily updates of the current grain prices on Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development’s website. This service has now been […] Read more
Canadian Dollar Not The Only Factor Behind Canola Prices
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Don Bousquet’s three times daily market reports, visit www.albertafarmexpress.ca (OCT 20) Grain and oilseed prices at the ICE Canada futures market have rallied since my last column. Canola was lifted by the strength in the Chicago soybean market and slower farmer selling. However, the advances were slowed by improving conditions for harvesting and firm […] Read more
Salmonella Concerns Start To Affect Prairie Crush Volumes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s oilseed processors are crushing less canola, the first tangible sign that the rapidly expanding industry has run into a rut because of a dispute over salmonella with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Crushing has decreased even as processors are boosting capacity. If the trend continues, more seed could shift to export and overhang […] Read more
U.S. And Canadian Reports Confirm Bigger-Than-Expected Crop
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Don Bousquet’s three-times daily market reports, visit www.albertafarmexpress.ca (OCT. 6) Grain and oilseed prices at the ICE Canada futures market are mixed since my last column. Canola is down moderately in the wake of losses in the Chicago soy complex, the advancing harvest, ideas of a large canola crop and slower demand from the […] Read more
Livestock Producers Will Soon Benefit From Lower Feed Costs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prices over a period of time are typically confined to a trading range. Prices are content to move up and down within this range until there is a shift in equilibrium, at which time the trend will turn decisively in the direction of the breakout from the range. TRENDLINES During the course of a trend […] Read more
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