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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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.

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Klassen: Feeder market in price discovery mode

For the week ending August 2, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to as much as $10 higher. Quality yearling packages off grass were up as much as $15 in some cases. Prices for similar weight cattle were quite variable across the Prairies, which made the market hard to define.  The market appears to be in price discovery mode for the grass yearling market.