Canola Tumbles Hard

Jan 13, 2022

Canola futures were sharply lower on Thursday in the heaviest trading session in a number of weeks. There was significant weakness in the old-crop months, with new-crop positions seeing more modest declines.

Oilseed markets in general were pressured by a much better forecast for South America, where much-needed rain, along with cool temperatures, is expected over the weekend. Additional pressure came from much smaller losses in Malaysian palm oil, while a step back in global crude oil prices weighed on edible oils.

The Canadian dollar was slightly higher at the noon hour, which put more pressure on canola.

March canola fell $29.90 to $984.80, May was down $20.50 at $971.30 and new-crop November lost $4.20 to $795.80.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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