Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Monsanto to market Rovral on Prairies

May. 22, 2008 at 1:31 pm CDT

Monsanto Canada will sell Bayer’s canola fungicide Rovral Rx on the Prairies under a supply agreement the two companies signed this week. Rovral, a Group 2 (Iprodione) foliar fungicide, is used on the Prairies to protect against sclerotinia in canola and alfalfa seed crops. Bayer CropScience markets it on the […]

Alta. drafts new land-use policy framework

May. 21, 2008 at 5:07 pm CDT

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New “Made in Canada” rules up for comment

May. 21, 2008 at 4:23 pm CDT

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Viterra to boost two elevators’ rail spots

May. 21, 2008 at 3:55 pm CDT

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Masterfeeds to buy Land O’Lakes Ont. business

May. 21, 2008 at 3:18 pm CDT

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WTO text made worse: Canada’s SM5

May. 21, 2008 at 2:45 pm CDT

Canada’s supply-managed commodity groups say a new draft modalities text aimed at a global trade deal on agriculture is worse for their sectors than earlier versions. A group representing Canadian ag exporters, however, has praised the text as closing several gaps and building on consensus reached in world trade talks […]

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ICE feed wheat contracts end Wed. night

May. 21, 2008 at 2:00 pm CDT

The former Winnipeg Commodity Exchange will remove its December 2008 and later feed wheat contracts from trading, starting Wednesday evening. ICE Futures Canada, as the WCE has been known since January , announced its decision Tuesday in a notice to exchange participants. The removal of December 2008 and subsequent contracts […]

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N.S. “pumpkin king” Howard Dill, 73

May. 21, 2008 at 1:24 pm CDT

Howard Dill, an Annapolis Valley pumpkin breeder known worldwide for his giant pumpkins, died Tuesday of cancer at age 73, according to reports from Nova Scotia media. Dill, a self-taught plant breeder, earned business from competitive giant pumpkin growers and ordinary gardeners from as far away as Thailand and Turkey, […]

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Sask. stock growers name new GM

May. 21, 2008 at 12:35 pm CDT

An articling agrologist with a background in water stewardship is the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association’s new general manager. Chad MacPherson, the former Moose Jaw River Watershed Stewards stewardship co-ordinator, was the first source water protection plan co-ordinator in the province, the SSGA said in a release Wednesday. MacPherson replaces consultant […]

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Alta. pulse growers name new director

May. 21, 2008 at 12:16 pm CDT

The Alberta Pulse Growers Commission has named a pulse crop researcher as its new executive director. Sheri Strydhorst, who farms with her husband at Neerlandia, 150 km northwest of Edmonton, recently earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and has worked on nitrogen fixation and increasing the use of […]

By FBC staff