Insights and Stories on Crops

Manitoba’s potato crop seen surviving flood

May. 17, 2011 at 6:00 pm CDT

The rising Assiniboine River is expected to take out significant potato acreage around Portage la Prairie, but one industry official said the overall effect on Manitoba’s crop would be minimal. Brian Wilson, a potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at Carman, said there would obviously be some […]

Sask. again grandfathers farm license plates

May. 17, 2011 at 1:56 pm CDT

Mosaic stockholders approve split from Cargill

May. 17, 2011 at 9:00 am CDT

Fruit, sweet corn, alfalfa pests added to Assail label

May. 16, 2011 at 5:20 pm CDT

Canola basis levels to fluctuate

May. 16, 2011 at 3:37 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Are you seeding yet? Let us know

May. 15, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Seeding still appears to be off to a flying stop in some cropland on the Prairies, while field reports in Eastern Canada suggest much better luck with planting. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) on Monday (May 16) reported “favourable weather” last week had allowed a “dramatic” increase in seeding progress, […]

By Dave Bedard

McCain Foods founder Wallace McCain, 81

May. 14, 2011 at 5:03 pm CDT

McCain Foods’ co-founder and Maple Leaf Foods’ chairman Wallace McCain on Friday ended a long battle with cancer at age 81. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon (May 20) in Toronto and in Florenceville, N.B. for McCain, who had suffered from pancreatic cancer for 14 months. Former New Brunswick […]

Two Snowhite wheats heading for feed class

May. 13, 2011 at 5:00 pm CDT

Growers of two varieties of Prairie spring white wheats (CPSW) have until the end of July to deliver them as No. 1 or 2 CPSW. The Canadian Grain Commission on Friday said deliveries of CPSW wheats Snowhite 475 and Snowhite 476 — both of which were deregistered April 28 — […]

Feed wheat to decline with ample stocks, low demand

May. 13, 2011 at 3:55 pm CDT

The price of feed wheat across the Prairies has been holding steady of late, but according to one analyst, values may be set to decline. Gerald Snip of Market Place Commodities at Lethbridge, Alta. said there are a number of factors likely to contribute to a drop in values , […]

By Brent Harder

Floods to delay start of U.S. grain export season

May. 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm CDT

The grain harvest in the U.S. South typically kicks off in August, and supplies are quickly grabbed by exporters to be shipped across the globe. But not this year. Massive flooding that has submerged about three million acres of crop land will delay the start of the export season in […]

By Karl Plume