Insights and Stories on Crops

Feb. 8, 2011 at 6:52 am CST

Roundup Ready and LibertyLink corn growers in Ontario and Quebec have been granted a new weed-killing option to tank mix with whichever chemical their corn crop is meant to withstand. The Calgary-based Canadian arm of Bayer CropScience on Friday announced it had picked up registration for Vios G3, a dual-action […]

Feb. 8, 2011 at 5:50 am CST

Fears of tight flaxseed supplies in Canada were confirmed by Friday’s stocks report from Statistics Canada, which showed only 453,000 tonnes in the country as of Dec. 31, 2010, as opposed to 843,000 at the same time one year ago. Although total stocks are very low, Chuck Penner of Left […]

By Brent Harder

Feb. 6, 2011 at 11:39 am CST

Unionized locomotive and rail car repair staff and inspectors at Canadian Pacific Railway have reached a labour deal with the company, less than three days before a scheduled strike. The 2,100 affected shopcraft staff, represented by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 101, will vote over the next three weeks […]

Feb. 4, 2011 at 6:12 pm CST

Japan bought food wheat from Canada at a regular tender on Thursday and a Canadian Wheat Board memo shows it managed to find scarce high-protein supplies despite a global shortage of top-quality wheat. The CWB sold Japan’s ministry of agriculture 37,110 tonnes of top-grade spring wheat for shipping March 12 […]

By chikako-mogi, Rod Nickel

Feb. 4, 2011 at 5:28 pm CST

The grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report Statistics Canada released Friday generally fell within industry expectations, with the exception of canola, with the stocks number suggesting 2010-11 carryover will be much tighter than anticipated. The federal statistics agency pegged Canadian canola stocks as of Dec. 31, in the […]

By Dwayne Klassen