Insights and Stories on Crops

Mar. 29, 2011 at 5:27 pm CDT

Wet and cool conditions across the Prairies have left a lot of uncertainty about the condition of the winter wheat crop that was planted last fall. Jake Davidson, executive manager with Winter Cereals Canada at Minnedosa, Man., said with so much snowpack still on the ground, it is virtually impossible […]

By Brent Harder

Mar. 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm CDT

Prices for chickpeas in Western Canada have been moving higher over the past month, as global supplies of the specialty crop have taken hit with poor production around the world. “Around the world, chickpea crops have been a disaster,” said Colin Young, manager of R. Young Seeds at Mortlach, Sask. […]

By Brent Harder

Mar. 29, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

The canola growers’ body in charge of the cash advance program for Western Canada’s crop producers is now taking applications for 2011. The Advance Payments Program offers farmers up to $100,000 interest-free, and an additional $300,000 at “very competitive” interest rates, the Canadian Canola Growers Association said in a release […]

Mar. 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm CDT

A pro-Canadian Wheat Board farmers’ group says it’s won the right to take legal action when the federal government imposes changes on CWB director elections. But the Federal Court of Appeal ruling which grants the Friends of the CWB that right has also shot down the group’s appeal of changes […]

Mar. 28, 2011 at 8:00 pm CDT

Off-patent ag chemical maker Mana Canada has picked up registration for a lower rate of application for preventive use of its Group 3 fungicide Bumper 418 EC. Bumper’s active ingredient, propiconazole, is best known in Syngenta’s Tilt 250E and is also the active in Viterra’s Propel and Ipco’s Pivot 418 […]