Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm CDT

Seeding canola deep into the soil to “chase” moisture is generally a better idea later in May than earlier in the season, the Canola Council of Canada suggests. As soils warm up in mid- to late May, a canola grower can seed one and a half to two inches deep […]

May. 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm CDT

Canada’s Conservative government will likely introduce legislation this autumn that will end the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly on wheat and barley in 2012, the returning federal agriculture minister said Wednesday. Western Canada’s grain industry has operated since the Second World War under a monopoly that forces farmers to sell […]

By Randall Palmer, Rod Nickel

May. 18, 2011 at 8:30 pm CDT

Viterra’s chief executive declined to comment on Wednesday on his company’s possible interest in acquiring GrainCorp, a leading Australian grain handler that market watchers see as a takeover target. However, CEO Mayo Schmidt, responding to a question at the BMO Capital Markets farm investor conference in New York, noted Australia’s […]

By Rod Nickel

May. 18, 2011 at 2:30 pm CDT

Although oat values on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) have been trending upward — albeit slightly — over the past couple of weeks, one analyst said producers on Canada’s Prairies should be thinking about selling some of their product before values decline. Ryan McKnight, a grain merchant with Linear […]

By Brent Harder

May. 18, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

Producers in the eastern regions of Canada’s Prairies are hoping to get seed in the ground where possible before more precipitation events hit the region. Drier weather in select areas of eastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba have allowed producers to begin seeding operations, but those operations may be temporary, said […]

By Dwayne Klassen