Insights and Stories on Crops

Apr. 26, 2011 at 10:15 am CDT

Revised, April 26 –– A combination of two seed treatments against wheat and barley diseases and an insecticide to suppress wireworm in those crops can now also be used to protect oats, starting this spring. Syngenta Crop Protection Canada last week announced the expanded label for its seed treatment Cruiser […]

Apr. 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm CDT

Western Canada’s farmers will likely keep their tractors parked this week at a time when they’re usually seeding crops, as fields remain flooded after a stretch of cool temperatures, a Canadian Wheat Board official said. Seeding has not started and looks 10 days to three weeks behind schedule, the same […]

By Rod Nickel

Apr. 25, 2011 at 1:45 pm CDT

Kabuli chickpeas have seen an increase in price over the past week, as values have found strength from a lack of good-quality supplies. “There isn’t a lot of good product left in Canada for this year,” said Les Aubin of Walker Seeds at Tisdale, Sask. “If regular buyers are going […]

By Brent Harder

Apr. 25, 2011 at 6:26 am CDT

Rising fuel prices have led to another hike in the cost index that helps cap how much Canada’s two main railways can charge per year for hauling Prairie grain. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday announced it has approved a 3.5 per cent increase in its volume-related composite price index […]

Apr. 24, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

“Unusually severe” winter weather has been blamed for Canadian Pacific Railway’s (CP) lower grain handle in its first fiscal quarter of 2011. The railway on Thursday booked overall net income of $33.7 million on $1.163 billion in gross revenues for its first quarter ending March 31, down from profit of […]