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Statistics Canada trims wheat production estimate

Lentil crop estimate up from August

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MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers grew less wheat in 2020-21 than earlier thought, according to updated production estimates Statistics Canada released Monday. However, the country’s wheat crop would still be the second-largest on record and well above the five-year average. Using yield models based on satellite imagery, total wheat production in the country for 2020-21 is […] Read more
ICE November 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Weather

ICE weekly outlook: Canola shows volatility after long weekend

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MarketsFarm — Although there remains a lot of canola to be combined, one trader believes most harvest pressure on the market has already passed. “The farmers who wanted to sell off of the combine or shortly after, probably have done so already,” said Jerry Klassen, an independent Winnipeg commodities trader. There will still be some […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

StatsCan stocks report shows lower lentils, durum, canola

Lentil supply picture 'extremely tight'

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MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s stocks of principal field crops report detailed tight ending stocks for lentils durum and canola. As of July 31, lentil stocks totalled just 61,000 tonnes, down by 91.5 per cent from last year. Exports were up by over 30 per cent year-over-year, which accounted for some of the decrease. “It’s an […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Wheat crop to be second-largest on record, StatsCan predicts

Canola estimate at lower end of trade predictions

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MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will have grown their second-largest wheat crop on record in 2020, according to the first production estimates of the year from Statistics Canada, as released Monday. The government agency pegged total wheat production in the country for 2020-21 at 35.74 million tonnes, up 10.5 per cent on the year and second […] Read more
Artist’s rendering of the Merit Functional Foods plant under construction in Winnipeg. (Merit Foods graphic)
Canola, Crops, Peas

Bunge buys into canola, pea protein maker Merit

Agribusiness giant takes quarter stake in processor

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One of the world’s biggest grain companies is getting in on a processing facility under construction in Winnipeg to extract plant-based proteins from canola and peas. Winnipeg-based Merit Functional Foods announced Thursday it has received a $30 million “capital investment” from Bunge, giving the U.S. grain firm a “minority interest” worth 25 per cent. Burcon […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Canola crop expectations vary ahead of StatsCan report

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MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada is due to publish its first production estimates for Canada’s 2020 growing season on Monday (Aug. 31). Late-season hot temperatures and a lack of rain may cause Canada’s canola production to be lower than originally expected, according to some market participants. Earlier in the growing season, Winnipeg-based FarmLink Agriculture Solutions published […] Read more

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