Insights and Stories on Crops

U.S. budget hawks eye $5B ag subsidy

Jan. 10, 2011 at 3:42 pm CST

(Reuters) — A direct payment subsidy that guarantees U.S. farmers $5 billion a year is the most prominent target in agriculture’s complex web of subsidies as budget-cutting Republicans flex their new legislative muscle in the House of Representatives. Created in 1996, the subsidy is a point of dispute in farm […]

Dicamba-tolerant canola, HT wheat move forward

Jan. 9, 2011 at 11:38 pm CST

Mexico allowing clean Canadian canaryseed

Jan. 7, 2011 at 5:56 pm CST

By Brent Harder

P.E.I. to offer fusarium testing on seed potatoes

Jan. 7, 2011 at 1:04 pm CST

Ag runoff a focus for Calgary toxicology centre

Jan. 7, 2011 at 9:30 am CST

Gaspe-area brewery gets federal loan for expansion

Jan. 7, 2011 at 9:00 am CST

A microbrewery in Quebec’s Gaspe region plans to boost its production and demand for barley with a federal loan. Microbrasserie Le Naufrageur, based at Carleton-sur-Mer on Chaleur Bay, received a repayable contribution before Christmas worth up to $65,000 from the federal government’s AgriProcessing Initiative. The money is expected to allow […]

Higher prices ration flaxseed demand

Jan. 6, 2011 at 7:09 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — High flaxseed bids are causing end users to ration demand, slowing the reduction of Canada’s tightening supplies. Flaxseed bids as high as $15.75 per bushel, FOB farm, can currently be found in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to the latest Prairie Ag Hotwire data. Market participants […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Cargill, Montreal firm to breed cellulose-digesting germ

Jan. 6, 2011 at 1:39 pm CST

A Montreal chemical company has signed a deal with Cargill to develop a new microorganism that produces a multi-use industrial chemical from plant cellulose such as straw, corn stover and wood waste. The deal, announced Wednesday, gives BioAmber Inc. exclusive rights to Cargill’s technology for making succinic acid from lignocellulose, […]

Don’t jump gun on RR patent expiry: Monsanto

Jan. 6, 2011 at 12:49 pm CST

With eight months to go before the original Canadian patent on Roundup Ready soybeans expires, the agreements growers sign before planting this spring will still apply to the crops they harvest. To that end, the Winnipeg-based Canadian arm of the patent holder, Monsanto, is “taking additional steps to make sure […]

CNH joins new spinoff from automaker Fiat

Jan. 6, 2011 at 8:19 am CST

The amicable divorce between Italian automaker Fiat and its combined ag and industrial businesses, including Case IH, New Holland and Steyr, has been made official. Fiat Industrial, which officially “demerged” from Fiat on Saturday and began trading Monday on Italy’s MTA stock exchange, on Wednesday named the new executive body […]

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