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Canadian Farmers Shift Acres to Canola, Barley, Corn

Published June 30, 2026

Canadian farmers planted more canola, barley, corn and soybeans this year. According to StatsCan, canola seedings are record high, up more than eight percent from 2025. Barley acreage north of the border is up 9.3 percent and corn acreage grew…

Canadian Wheat Production Up Over a Year Ago

Published December 6, 2024

Canadian farmers harvested a bigger wheat and soybean crop while canola production declined from a year ago. According to StatsCan, wheat production totaled 34.9 million tons. That’s up more than six percent from a year ago. Wheat acreage was down,…

StatsCan Releases August Report

Published August 29, 2024

StatsCan forecasts Canada’s wheat production at 34.4 million metric tons, up four percent from a year ago. Spring wheat production is down a fraction of one percent, but durum production is up significantly. The August crop production report forecast canola…

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No Surprises

Published February 9, 2024

Statistics Canada released its grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report on Thursday. Stats Can pegged total wheat stocks at the end of 2023 at 20.7 million metric tons. That is down ten percent from the end of 2022…

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StatsCan Report is Within Trade Expectations

Published September 9, 2022

Given last year’s drought across the Canadian Prairies, lower ending stocks from Statistics Canada were expected. Ag-Chieve Inc. President David Drozd says there were a couple of outliers, including flax. "They're showing an 85,000 ton carryout versus 59,000 one year…

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More Wheat and Durum, Less Canola and Barley

Published April 27, 2022

Canadian farmers are expected to increase wheat and durum acres while reducing barley and canola acres from last year. Statistics Canada’s planting intentions report says farmers intend to plant 20.9 million acres of canola. That is down seven percent from…

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StatsCan Surprises Grain Trade

Published February 9, 2022

BOLT Marketing market analyst DuWayne Bosse the StatsCan surprised the wheat market earlier this week with a larger than expected cut in wheat stocks. "It surprised the markets a little bit with all wheat stocks of 15.5 million metric tons.…

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StatsCan Report Didn’t Add Much to the Wheat Story

Published December 5, 2021

Friday’s StatsCan report didn't bring many changes to the overall wheat story. "There's more spring wheat in Canada than the grain trade was expecting. The trade thought we'd lose more spring wheat and there was a slight increase," says DuWayne…

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StatsCan: Wheat and Canola Crops As Expected

Published December 5, 2021

Statistics Canada released their December Crop Production Summary report on Friday. StatsCan lowered the all-wheat production slightly from the September report to 21.65 million metric tons. DTN Canada analyst Cliff Jamieson says that is in line with pre-report trade estimates.…

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Canadian Farmers Shift Acres to Canola, Barley, Corn

Canadian Wheat Production Up Over a Year Ago

StatsCan Releases August Report

No Surprises

StatsCan Report is Within Trade Expectations

More Wheat and Durum, Less Canola and Barley

StatsCan Surprises Grain Trade

StatsCan Report Didn’t Add Much to the Wheat Story

StatsCan: Wheat and Canola Crops As Expected

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