Insights and Stories on Crops

Apr. 4, 2011 at 11:00 pm CDT

A herbicide used mainly against volunteer wheat, durum and barley and wild oats in canola and pulse crops is now cleared to fight foxtail barley. Assure II, whose active ingredient quizalofop p-ethyl puts it among the “fops” in herbicide Group 1, has picked up the additional weed on its label. […]

Apr. 4, 2011 at 6:48 pm CDT

It’s only a matter of time before North American farmers are growing genetically engineered wheat along with their soybeans, corn and canola, according to Vince Peterson, vice-president of overseas operations with U.S. Wheat Associates. Speaking at the Canada Grains Council annual meeting Monday in Winnipeg, he estimated genetically engineered wheat […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Apr. 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm CDT

Ag chem firm Valent Canada’s broad-spectrum weed killer for soybean growers will now be handled and sold in Canada by Nufarm. The Calgary-based Canadian arm of off-patent herbicide firm Nufarm will handle all sales, shipping and billing for Valtera, Valent’s Group 14 flumioxazin herbicide, effective immediately as part of a […]

Apr. 2, 2011 at 7:00 am CDT

Corrected, April 4 — A combo fungicide best known for disease control in wheat, oats and barley has picked up approval for use against soybean leaf diseases including Asian soybean rust. Previously available for use on cereal crops at 202 ml per acre (500 ml per hectare), Bayer CropScience’s Group […]

Apr. 1, 2011 at 5:30 pm CDT

Breakfast cereal giant Kellogg Canada is budgeting $43 million to build an additional production line at its Mini-Wheats facility in central Ontario. The Ontario government on Wednesday pledged $4.5 million toward the Belleville, Ont. project, which the company expects to have up and running by its fourth quarter of fiscal […]