0
Home
News
Directory
E-newsletter
Magazine
Events
Data
AgReport
Subscribe
Canada Rapeseed: Estimated Production Down
Oct. 14, 2014
USDA estimates 2014/2015 Canada rapeseed production at 14.4 million tons, down 2.0 percent from last month and down 20 percent from last year’s record level. Area is estimated at 7.80 million hectares, up 0.6 percent from last month but down 2.6 percent from last year. Yield is forecast at 1.85 tons per hectare, down 18 percent from last year’s record yield. Yield is slightly below the 5-year average.
The month-to-month revision is based on the Statistics Canada’s Principal Field Crops October report. Provincial reports indicate that yields will be above average in Alberta and Manitoba, which produce 35 percent and 15 percent of the total crop, respectively. In Saskatchewan, the major producer, yields are expected to be average, despite less than ideal growing season and late plantings.
Harvest progress is behind the 5-year average across the Western Prairies because of late plantings and cool, wet and snowy conditions in mid-September. Warm and dry weather returned to the prairies in late September and harvest has resumed.
Source: USDA
More from AgroNews
Change
Hot TopicSubscribe
| Subscribe Email: | * | |
| Name: | ||
| Mobile Number: | ||
Comment
0/1200
NEWSLETTER