date:Sep 13, 2013
for this entire year, said Dean McQueen, vice-president of merchandising and transportation at Viterra, one of Western Canada's two biggest crop handlers and owner of a canola plant in Manitoba.
This year's bumper crop comes amid concerns that hot, dry weather will trim production of U.S. soybeans, a rival to canola in the global vegetable oil market.
Even so, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts global soybean production of nearly 282 million tonnes in 2013/14, an increase of 5 percen