Canola

[farmaholic]

LMFAO..... better book your canola seed or the new and improved varieties will be sold out!

I am so over that sales pitch. Let the high testosterone farmers compete for and drive up the price on stuff that in some cases only gets a name change!

If we don't see some soil moisture replenishing rains next April it will be pretty hard to get excited about spending big money on the high cost and risk of getting canola established in dust.

[farming101]

Jan 21 crush margin at $123.55, $36.84 higher than a month ago.

Jan soybeans gapped higher tonight(barely) and is leaving behind resistance. Jan bean oil closing in on 38/cwt

Nov Canola basis as bad as -46 wow. Bills to pay....

[farmaholic]

Thanks won oh one.

[Sodbuster]

I’m hoping to see basis drop to under -15 in the April to July period assuming crushing and exporting continues at current rate., barring any blockages or strikes.

[farming101]

5 under for May del self haul to the plant. Have sold a bit into that

[farmaholic]

I didn't think canola could transmit Covid-19

[farmaholic]

5 under for May del self haul to the plant. Have sold a bit into that

Some components of what made up my specialty canola premium over commodity canola are shrinking.
Difference in basis between the two, the locked in positive basis is set in stone but the usual negative basis of commodity canola might shrink as the marketing year continues. And there isn't much carry in the futures out to July which my basis is locked in against.

I don't think I hit it yet



Not that I know of.

[farming101]

The basis is fixed? You don't add a basis premium to whatever the regular basis is at the time?

[farmaholic]

My contract: fixed basis over July contract. No adding positive and negative basis to net positive. Only positive!!!

How I see it as being even better:

Fixed basis, add the usual negative commodity canola basis plus the carry in the market between nearby and July.

$500 futures. Let's say the fixed basis is positive $50. A regular basis is usually a negative value, say $30. And lets give the market $10 in carry.

Early(Oct to Dec) commodity canola pricing:

$500 - $30 = $470

Late(July) specialty canola pricing:

$510 + $50 = $560

A difference of $70.

I kinda see the negative basis in commodity canola as a gain in specialty canola pricing because it isn't deducted off specialty pricing( debatable theory) And carry is a given fact.....until there is very little or an inverse which we are seeing now.

Clear as mud?

[farming101]

Think so....
Cargill specialty canola has the basis premium as an addition to whatever their basis for the day is for generic.

Just add the premium to the price of the day.
Example: April delivery is +56 so today the April price is 553.90 + 56 = 609.90

[farmaholic]

I think Richardson's specialty crush is the same as you describe.

But only a schtoopit foolaholic would want to be in a Clearfield Nexera program like I am, unlike Richardson's or Cargill's

[farming101]

Figure this out:

April del 9 under May
May del 5 under May
June del 25 under July
July del 23 under July

Either they know something or they are going to shut the generic line down for the summer or someone is asleep at the wheel

Exports are 1,112,100 tonnes ahead of last year at this time