Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 31, 2011 at 4:16 pm CDT

Alberta farmers are nearly finished with their spring seeding operations, having made quick progress in the past few weeks, according to a crop specialist with the province’s Ag-Info Centre. With planting wrapping up, fields in the northern part of the province are now in need of some rainfall, while excess […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

May. 31, 2011 at 3:37 pm CDT

Waterlogged farmers in Saskatchewan have again been granted extensions on their seeding deadlines to qualify for crop insurance. “While I hope the extension will give producers some extra time to get their seed in the ground and still be insured, we all realize the best solution to this situation would […]

May. 30, 2011 at 5:59 pm CDT

Most of over 500 workers handling Saskatchewan farmers’ crop insurance and AgriStability data have voted in favour of job action. The 520 employees at 21 Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. (SCIC) offices, represented by the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU), voted 86 per cent in favour of a strike […]

May. 29, 2011 at 10:00 pm CDT

A former beet sugar processing plant in southwestern Ontario will be overhauled to process corn for the food processing industry. Dover Corn Products on Wednesday picked up just under $300,000 from the province’s rural economic development program towards its renovations at the Chatham facility. The building, according to various media […]

May. 28, 2011 at 9:15 am CDT

Fertilizer and ag retail giant Agrium plans to buy a Nebraska company making zinc sulphate and other granular and liquid nutrients for the fertilizer and livestock feed markets. Calgary-based Agrium said Thursday it plans to buy Tetra Micronutrients, based at Fairbury, Neb., about 110 km southwest of Lincoln, and close […]