Insights and Stories on Crops

Jan. 24, 2011 at 1:30 pm CST

Unionized mechanics and related staff at Canadian National Railway (CN) have reached a tentative agreement with the company, less than a day before a scheduled strike. The workers, represented by four separate bargaining units of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), had notified the company Saturday that they planned to head […]

Jan. 22, 2011 at 11:56 pm CST

Canadian National Railway’s (CN) unionized mechanics and related staff have confirmed plans to strike Tuesday barring a last-minute agreement, the company says. The employees, members of bargaining units represented by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), had set the Tuesday deadline into their contract talks with the railway on Jan. 13, […]

Jan. 21, 2011 at 6:51 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — Canola crush margins for western Canadian processors have weakened off slightly, but demand for the commodity remains strong. Some of the drop-off in profitability was attributed in part to some weakening of U.S. soy product values. The ability of the Canadian dollar to hold above […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Jan. 21, 2011 at 11:56 am CST

Manitoba’s provincial government has pledged $20 million over the next 10 years to support development and manufacturing of ag- and forestry-based bioproducts. The new Manitoba Bio-products Strategy was announced Thursday at Riverton in the province’s Interlake region, where a local firm, Erosion Control Blankets, makes erosion-suppression products from wheat straw. […]

Jan. 21, 2011 at 11:37 am CST

A Nova Scotia company processing and juicing wild blueberries has picked up a federal loan to ramp up its production capacity and expand its market reach. Van Dyk’s Health Juice Products, based at Caledonia in Queens County, will get over $94,000 from the AgriProcessing Initiative, the government announced Thursday. The […]