Insights and Stories on Crops

Viterra plans storage upgrades in western Sask.

Mar. 24, 2011 at 4:13 pm CDT

Grain handler Viterra plans to start work this spring on expansions for its elevators at North Battleford and Lloydminster, Sask. Construction at the Regina company’s Lloydminster elevator will involve an additional 12,000 tonnes of storage capacity, bringing total grain storage to 27,000 tonnes. Viterra said it will also expand its […]

Lack of demand hurts lentils

Mar. 24, 2011 at 2:47 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Soft ocean freight rates benefit grain exports

Mar. 24, 2011 at 1:28 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CP expects winter woes to dent earnings

Mar. 23, 2011 at 1:54 pm CDT

Malting grades added to weed killer’s use in barley

Mar. 22, 2011 at 5:41 pm CDT

ADM to double Alta. crusher’s storage, intake

Mar. 22, 2011 at 2:07 pm CDT

Agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland plans to start work this spring doubling storage capacity and “receiving capabilities” at its Lloydminster, Alta. canola crushing plant. The project involves five new storage bins and a second receiving system, “which is expected to significantly reduce unloading times for area farmers,” the company’s ADM […]

Late start seen for seeding on Prairies

Mar. 22, 2011 at 1:42 pm CDT

Producers in Western Canada who hope to get an early start to seeding will be disappointed, given that the weather is not expected to be very co-operative over the next couple of months. “There is definitely going to be a bias to wet and cooler weather conditions over the next […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Former Manitoba ag minister Sam Uskiw, 77

Mar. 22, 2011 at 10:00 am CDT

Funeral services will be held April 2 at East Selkirk, Man. for Sam Uskiw, who served eight years as Manitoba’s minister of agriculture in Edward Schreyer’s government. Uskiw, 77, died “peacefully” in hospital on Saturday at Selkirk, Man., according to a brief obituary Tuesday. Uskiw was a farmer in the […]

Sask. launches spring flooding website

Mar. 21, 2011 at 3:22 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government has launched a website tying together flood and weather forecasts, runoff data and other information to get the public prepared for this spring. “As the March runoff forecast issued by Saskatchewan Watershed Authority illustrates, areas of the province are certain to experience spring flooding this year,” Weyburn […]

Impending storm worsens Prairie flood risk, crop outlook

Mar. 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm CDT

A snowstorm that looks to sweep across Western Canada’s grain and canola belt would worsen what are already the wettest conditions for this time of year since the 1970s, a Canadian Wheat Board official said Monday. Environment Canada, the government forecasting agency, issued warnings for snowfall up to 25 cm […]

By Rod Nickel