Insights and Stories of Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 30, 2009 at 5:01 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Producers in Alberta were able to make some minor progress in harvesting canola still left out in the fields, according to a provincial crop specialist. “I would estimate that maybe five per cent more of the canola crop has been combined in the central region of […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 29, 2009 at 2:44 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The Canola Council of Canada is hoping a meeting planned for Friday (Oct. 30) between Canadian and Chinese government officials results in at least a six-month extension before China implements the need for phytosanitary certificates on all imported canola. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) advised […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 26, 2009 at 4:12 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Canada will need to import ethanol in order to meet its 2010 ethanol production target of two billion litres per year, according to an official with an ethanol and biodiesel industry group. Ethanol output in Canada is currently in the 1.731 billion-litre range, and the five […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 16, 2009 at 4:03 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– The late harvest of soybeans and wet conditions preventing machinery from getting on fields is expected to reduce the area that will be seeded to winter wheat in Ontario. “If there had been a perfect fall, the area seeded to winter wheat in Ontario during the […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 15, 2009 at 3:48 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The warm and dry weather experienced during much of September provided the necessary conditions that allowed the soybean crop in Ontario to mature enough to harvest, according to an official with the Ontario provincial government. “The harvest of Ontario`s soybean crop is only about 10 to […]

By Dwayne Klassen