Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 6, 2011 at 6:00 pm CDT

An expansion-minded mushroom producer in southern Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe has picked up rural development funding from the province for a new processing plant. Greenwood Mushroom Farm, best known for the Windmill Farms mushroom brand, will get about $3.1 million from the province’s rural economic development (RED) program toward its $9.8 […]

Jul. 6, 2011 at 5:02 pm CDT

Canada’s agriculture department has slashed its production forecast for wheat, but raised its canola outlook, while warning that overall crop stocks will drop to a record low this summer. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on Tuesday released its grain and oilseed outlook, which is based on analysis from its Winnipeg-based […]

Jul. 6, 2011 at 4:38 pm CDT

A company billed as Western Canada’s top supplier of inputs to the horticulture and turf crop industry is set to be wed to fertilizer and ag retail giant Agrium’s similar operations in the East. Agrium announced Wednesday it has bought Delta, B.C.-based Evergro Canada, including six distribution plants across southern […]

Jul. 5, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Researchers in Edmonton plan to study the cellulose from flax, hemp and other crop fibres and wood pulp for the use of its extracts in a “super-strong” manufacturing material. The federal and Alberta governments on Tuesday announced they will underwrite a $5.5 million pilot facility where researchers will process up […]

Jul. 5, 2011 at 4:27 pm CDT

Richardson International’s Prairie grain elevator and ag inputs wing has booked $25 million in improvements and expansions to be completed at nine facilities by year’s end. The Winnipeg company on Tuesday said this round of investments at its Richardson Pioneer facilities will include eight projects at fertilizer distribution sites and […]