date:Mar 15, 2013
Japan and Mexico were the biggest importers of Canadian canola in 2011/12.
Canola's price is high in part because supplies are scarce, after a disappointing, smaller Canadian harvest last year.
I think we're going to run out of seed in May, said Paul Erickson, senior trader in Canada with GrainCorp. By then, exports will virtually stop, he said, unless last year's crop was actually larger than the 13.3 million tonnes Statistics Canada estimated.
Analyst Don Roberts of Canolainsight.com thinks