The strength is in the US soybean futures contracts at Chicago. The “Trump Bump” is the term now. This is adding some support to both grains and oilseeds. Both Paris rapeseed futures and Winnipeg canola saw half decent gains on the back of soybeans last night. Canadian canola is...

China has announced, again, that it will continue to expand its farmer support programs to help ensure food security and lower its reliance on imports. Considering the level of uncertainty created by the US, and in part China’s own actions, in regards to using tariffs as a trade tool....

Taiwan picked up 106kt of US wheat out of the Pacific Northwest last week. With official US export shipments for the week ending January 29th at just 326.8kt any business will be considered good business. Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia all feature on the US buyers list. US wheat continues...

According to the Indian weather office January was unusually warm and the prediction of a warmer, drier February has a few punters back peddling of winter crop production estimates there. The main crops likely to be impacted are wheat, canola and our favorite… chickpeas. I’m always skeptical of those...

China has began to buy Canadian canola again after a trade deal struck. As China has said many times in the past, China will do what is best for China. This is the case with this deal. In exchange for allowing the import of 49,000 Chinese EV’s into Canada,...