Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm CDT

Canada’s flaxseed stocks are expected to be very tight by the end of the current crop year and should remain that way through 2011-12, but one analyst doesn’t believe that will lead to an immediate jump in cash prices. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has reported end-of-year flaxseed stocks will be […]

By Brent Harder

May. 11, 2011 at 12:17 pm CDT

Canadian farmers will seed more wheat, durum, canola, oats and barley this spring and leave less unseeded land, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada said in an analysis that mostly mirrored earlier government estimates based on a farmer survey.  The department’s outlook for grains and oilseeds for the 2011-12 crop year late […]

May. 11, 2011 at 11:28 am CDT

Sandor Arendse can see and hear the big equipment preparing to breach the dike separating him and his family farm from the surging Assiniboine River, but as of Tuesday afternoon he hadn’t had any official word that he could be flooded. “It looks like I’m going to lose my home […]

By Allan Dawson

May. 10, 2011 at 6:57 pm CDT

The excessive moisture causing seeding delays across much of Western Canada should be good for at least one thing: the wet weather will be detrimental to grasshoppers across the Prairies, according to insect specialists. However, actual populations will depend on weather conditions in June and through the summer. Grasshopper forecasts […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

May. 9, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Farmers and any other employers bringing temporary foreign workers to Nova Scotia can expect to have to register their operations with the province, starting this winter. The provincial government on Wednesday introduced legislation that would require employers who want to recruit temporary foreign workers to register online with Access Nova […]