Canola in flower in a field near Stockholm, Saskatchewan in late July, 2024. | Greg Berg photo

Avoid bargain-basement canola markets to ease tariff damage

Market Watch: AAFC’s latest forecast is more bearish for Canadian canola, but much also depends on the U.S. oilseed crop

China’s canola tariffs aside, the global oilseed complex has eased to a lower price level and is likely to stay there for now — that is, unless problems develop with crops in the U.S. or South America.



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Several market relationships are out of kilter

We take a look at why extreme positions are being taken in three specific crop commodity markets and why it matters

Commodity watcher John DePutter takes a look at why ‘extreme market positions’ are being taken in corn, wheat and soybean futures — and why that matters to Prairie farmers.





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CBOT Weekly: More pressure on grain prices

U.S. grain, soybean prices to go lower: analyst

Corn, soybean and wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade continue to drop and one Chicago-based analyst says they are going to be even lower.