Insights and Stories on Crops

Jun. 25, 2011 at 4:15 am CDT

A tentative deal reached Friday between Saskatchewan’s provincial crop insurance corporation and its unionized staff was expected to see the workers end their strike as early as 1 p.m. The three-year deal, which still must be ratified in a worker vote and is also subject to Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.’s […]

Jun. 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm CDT

The Mexican government has again “slammed shut” its ports to Canadian canaryseed after the expiry Tuesday of an interim agreement that allowed exports to continue. Mexican officials in June 2010 began automatically rejecting any shipments of canaryseed found to contain quarantined weed seeds, without allowing them to go for recleaning. […]

Jun. 24, 2011 at 10:42 am CDT

Producers in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan have seen record amounts of rainfall this spring, causing record amounts of acres to go unseeded — and large amounts of fertilizer to go unused. Many producers who bought fertilizer were unable to use it because it was just too wet to get […]

By Brent Harder

Jun. 24, 2011 at 3:48 am CDT

The latest in the Canadian Wheat Board’s series of branding partnerships will move from the flour sack to the bread bag. The Winnipeg-based single-desk marketing agency for Prairie wheat and barley announced an agreement Friday with Canada Bread, which will see the board’s “Canadian Wheat Makes It Good” logo on […]

Jun. 23, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Poor prospects for crops of milling-quality durum have made it the major mover in the Canadian Wheat Board’s June round of pool return outlooks (PROs), with new-crop durum values up by as much as $79 per tonne. The CWB on Thursday released its monthly PROs for the 2011-12 crop year, […]