Happy Saturday! ☕ Boots up — no market grind today, just a victory lap.
We ran the numbers on every edition from the past week and pulled the five you opened, clicked, and shared the most. Ranked by total reads across email and web. Miss one? They're all one tap away. 👇
🥇 #1 — China Turns to Australian Canola, Squeezing Canada
📊 The week's most-read edition — 205 web views and the highest email click rate of any edition.
Beijing cracked the door open to Australian canola for its private crushers as China–Australia ties thaw — and that's a gut-punch for Canada, whose canola trade leans hard on the Chinese buyer. Every tonne that sails from Down Under is a tonne that doesn't leave a Prairie bin. We also tucked in a 24-year-old's box-truck spray-drone rig and why government cheques keep farmland pricey even as returns bleed red.
🥈 #2 — Canola Slides 2% as China Soybean Imports Set June Record
📊 Runner-up by reads — and the week's highest open rate at 48%.
China hauled in a record 13.55M tonnes of soybeans in June, but almost all of it came off Brazilian boats, not Canadian ones. ICE canola slid nearly 2% on the read-through. Plus, fertilizer prices are ticking up as the Strait of Hormuz stays jittery, and a New York farmer is fighting a neighbour's squatter 's-rights land grab.
🥉 #3 — Old Farmer's Almanac Drops Its 2026 Fall Weather Outlook
📊 Third by reads, with a near-record 47.5% open rate.
The Old Farmer's Almanac dropped its 2026 fall outlook — warm in the interior, cooler at the edges — and we broke down what that could mean for grain prices. Plus, Canadian combine sales are roaring back 42.7%, and a rural-road safety wake-up call is heading into harvest.
4️⃣ #4 — Canola Demand Could Jump 2.7M Tonnes on Co-Processing
📊 Fourth by reads — but it racked up the most link clicks of any edition this week (76).
Here's a demand story hiding in plain sight: Canadian refineries can run canola oil through units they already own, potentially unlocking 2.7 million tonnes of fresh demand — about five crush plants' worth. Plus, AI-cloned tractor dealers are wiring farmers' money offshore, and Alberta-fed cattle are parked at record highs.
5️⃣ #5 — Ottawa's Port of Vancouver Bet: More Grain, Faster Rail
📊 Rounding out the top five — and hot off Thursday's press.
Ottawa's new Port of Vancouver Gateway Strategy promises more bulk grain terminals and rail capacity, with a goal to double non-U.S. exports by 2035 — grain, canola and potash front and centre. Plus the biggest foreign-farmland disclosure overhaul since 1978 and what Ontario's OPP says about trespassers.
That's the week that was. 🌾
We're back in your inbox bright and early Monday with a fresh Big Bin — until then, keep 'er between the ditches.
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