Statistics Canada’s latest batch of satellite-modelled crop data includes slightly raised expectations for Canadian corn and soybean harvests this fall. StatsCan on Monday released model-based principal field crop estimates for […] Read more
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StatsCan adjusts expected corn, soy harvests upward
Satellite models predict higher yields on fewer acres
Wheat crop to be second-largest on record, StatsCan predicts
Canola estimate at lower end of trade predictions
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. […] Read more
Canola crop expectations vary ahead of StatsCan report
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 […] Read more
Red Deer hog plant books first COVID case
One employee confirmed with virus, 13 isolating as precaution, company says
A major Prairie hog slaughter and processing plant relatively untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic has marked its first case of the coronavirus in a production line worker. Olymel, the meat […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Canola facing resistance ahead of harvest
MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts backed away from nearby highs during the week ended Wednesday, signalling that the top may be in for the time being as the harvest […] Read more
U.S. farmers to harvest record-large corn crop, second-largest soy crop, USDA says
Estimates don't include impact of recent Midwest storm
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers will reap their biggest corn harvest and their second biggest soybean harvest this fall as good summer weather shepherded the crops through key phases […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: WASDE largely neutral for soy, corn
MarketsFarm — The world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had a “benign effect” on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), according to […] Read more
COVID concerns weigh on chicken farmers, processors
Sales crashed on lack of foodservice business
Ottawa — Chicken Farmers of Canada say they’ve faced a “sharp decline” in sales as a result of a significant drop in food services, which represents roughly 40 per cent […] Read more
Global wheat, corn, soy production expected to increase
MarketsFarm — Global crop production in the latest monthly supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to increase for wheat, corn and soybeans. USDA […] Read more
U.S. corn production expected way up in USDA’s May WASDE
MarketsFarm — There will be sharp increases in the United States’ 2020-21 corn production — and especially in ending stocks, according to the latest monthly supply and demand report from […] Read more
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