Insights and Stories on Crops

New foreign farm worker rules to boost employer responsibilities

Feb. 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm CST

Whether your farm or company currently employs temporary foreign workers (TFW) or may do so in the future, you will need to be aware of the new Temporary Foreign Worker Program regulations that will come into force on April 1. New TFW regulations Further to amendments to the Immigration and […]

Sunflowers face stiff competition in Manitoba

Feb. 11, 2011 at 1:36 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Drozd: Soybean oil lends underlying support to canola

Feb. 11, 2011 at 11:40 am CST

By David Drozd

Ont. MP tables CWB “opt-out” for Prairie farmers

Feb. 10, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST

Egypt seeks to buy wheat even as turmoil heightens

Feb. 10, 2011 at 11:50 pm CST

By sherine-el-madany

Ethanol industry blamed for skyrocketing corn prices

Feb. 10, 2011 at 11:45 pm CST

Grain and oilseed prices have reached some of their strongest values in years, and a key contributor is demand for corn from U.S. ethanol plants, according to an analyst. Kevin Grier, senior market analyst with the George Morris Centre in Guelph, Ont., said the current amount of corn being used […]

By Brent Harder

Federal mandate for biodiesel to move ahead

Feb. 10, 2011 at 11:30 pm CST

Federal requirements for diesel and heating oil to contain at least two per cent renewable content are expected to take effect this summer. The federal government announced Thursday it plans to publish amendments to its Renewable Fuels Regulations in the “coming weeks” for a 60-day public comment period, with a […]

GMO exportability bill shot down in Commons

Feb. 9, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST

Federal lawmakers have voted down a bill meant to prevent approvals for sale of seed of any new genetically modified (GM) crops that export markets won’t accept. While Bill C-474 — introduced in the House of Commons in November 2009 by the New Democrats’ agriculture critic, British Columbia MP Alex […]

Australian expansion leads to record Q4 for Agrium

Feb. 9, 2011 at 11:51 pm CST

Expansion into Australia’s ag retail market during 2010 has helped lead to a record fourth quarter for fertilizer and ag retail giant Agrium. The Calgary company on Wednesday posted net earnings of $158 million on $2.398 billion in sales (all figures US$) for its fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, up […]

Delisting still unlikely for ICE barley futures

Feb. 9, 2011 at 5:18 pm CST

Open interest in western barley futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform continues to remain virtually non-existent, but officials with the Winnipeg commodity exchange still hold out some faint hope the industry will again participate in the contract and avoid the delisting of the commodity. “We are not currently […]

By Dwayne Klassen