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Sep. 6, 2007 at 2:03 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Thursday’s session mainly lower with canola down on the weak tone in Chicago Board of Trade soybean markets, traders said. Canola saw a moderate trade with small levels of intermonth spreading. The total estimated canola volume […]

By Don Bousquet

Sep. 6, 2007 at 1:56 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government and SaskPower, the Crown power company, plans to expand the province’s “green power” portfolio with more wind power and new projects within the next three to five years. On top of a proposal to expand wind generation in the province by another 100 megawatts (mW) by 2012, […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 6, 2007 at 1:07 pm CDT

A coalition of corn producer groups in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba that challenged imports of U.S. grain corn in 2005 has decided not to try for one last appeal of the ruling that those imports don’t injure Canadian corn growers. Canadian Corn Producers, which last year lost its trade challenge […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 6, 2007 at 11:44 am CDT

The University of Guelph’s Centre for Land and Water Stewardship will set up a new training farm for young people and immigrants in the southern Ontario Greenbelt, focusing on ethnic crops such as okra, bitter melon, sweet potatoes and green chilies. The charitable foundation Friends of the Greenbelt today announced […]

By FBC staff

Sep. 6, 2007 at 10:52 am CDT

(Resource News International) An early soybean harvest, record high wheat prices and favourable weather conditions are expected to result in record area being seeded to winter wheat in Ontario this fall, according to the Ontario Wheat Producers Marketing Board’s general manager. “There is no doubt that a number of factors […]

By Dwayne Klassen