Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Solo cleared for Clearfield lentils

Jan. 7, 2008 at 2:02 pm CST

BASF Canada has picked up registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield lentil crops. The imazamox herbicide is already approved for control of 10 grasses and eight broadleaf weeds in field peas, Clearfield canola and, last week, Clearfield sunflowers. The company said the registration will […]

Dow to sell strawboard plant in pieces: MCO

Jan. 7, 2008 at 1:27 am CST

By FBC staff

Ag communicator Ginty Jocius, 61

Jan. 3, 2008 at 6:20 pm CST

By FBC staff

Barley deal with CWB “not achievable”: WGEA

Jan. 3, 2008 at 5:32 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ont. ag retailer to consolidate sites

Jan. 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm CST

By FBC staff

Approval paves way for Clearfield sunflowers: BASF

Jan. 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm CST

Approval of a herbicide for use on Clearfield sunflowers is expected to clear the way for the Clearfield sunflower system this spring. BASF Canada on Thursday announced it has picked up minor-use registration for its Group 2 herbicide Solo to be used in Clearfield sunflower crops. The imazamox herbicide is […]

By FBC staff

Ont. greenhouse growers to vote on checkoff

Jan. 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm CST

Ballots will be in the mail next week for Ontario’s growers of cut flowers, potted plants, bedding annuals and “propagative plant materials” to vote on a proposed mandatory checkoff to fund Flowers Canada (Ontario). The group has applied to the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission (OFPMC) to be recognized as […]

By FBC staff

Alta. potato pest probe comes up negative: CFIA

Jan. 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm CST

Testing of seed potato fields across Alberta has found no potato cyst nematode (PCN) population anywhere in the province, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday. Over 8,700 soil samples have not confirmed the pest’s presence, even after tests in October turned up the “possible presence” of PCN in two […]

By FBC staff

West’s ag councils link up on value chains

Jan. 2, 2008 at 7:39 pm CST

Western Canada’s agricultural councils, the support agencies for several programs promoting innovation in agriculture, will jointly back an education and awareness program to promote value chains. The four councils and their provinces’ governments will back the Western Canadian Value Chain Initiative, bringing an interprovincial focus to a series of workshops […]

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Ritz pans CWB barley pricing plan

Jan. 2, 2008 at 7:09 pm CST

Canada’s agriculture minister calls the Canadian Wheat Board’s proposed cash pricing option for malting barley a “half measure” he won’t support. In an opinion piece released to newspapers Tuesday, Gerry Ritz writes that the CWB’s pricing plan for the 2008 malting barley crop does not go far enough for the […]

By FBC staff