Insights and Stories on Crops

Wheat grower’s suit to test variety declaration: MCO

Dec. 3, 2010 at 4:19 am CST

An eastern Saskatchewan farm’s plans to seek over $50 million in a lawsuit against the Canadian Wheat Board are seen as a test of the four-year-old variety declaration system for grains. Hudye Farms Inc. and two associated companies at Norquay, Sask., about 100 km northeast of Yorkton, are contesting the […]

Grain Guard to enter bin business in Ontario

Dec. 1, 2010 at 12:54 pm CST

Prairie oat bids ease despite tight supply outlook

Dec. 1, 2010 at 12:20 am CST

By Dwayne Klassen

ICE Futures Canada tightens daily price limits

Nov. 30, 2010 at 6:41 pm CST

Winemakers funded for HACCP upgrade

Nov. 30, 2010 at 2:34 pm CST

Ont. backs Weston bakery plant’s relocation

Nov. 30, 2010 at 1:06 pm CST

Nationwide bakery firm Weston Foods will get almost $2.5 million in public funding to move one of its baked and par-baked goods facilities to newly renovated space. The Toronto company will get $2,448,825 from Ontario’s Rural Economic Development program to move its Ready Bake Foods plant at Cobourg, about 70 […]

Tight Canadian flax stocks keep bids strong

Nov. 30, 2010 at 12:01 am CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — Cash bids for flaxseed in Western Canada have held at strong levels and could again creep to even firmer levels as stocks of the commodity become extremely tight. Cash bids were reported to currently be in the $15 to $15.50 per bushel range, down slightly […]

By Dwayne Klassen

CWB rolls out EPO for feed wheat

Nov. 29, 2010 at 7:15 pm CST

With up to a quarter of this year’s Prairie wheat harvest potentially going feed-grade, the Canadian Wheat Board will offer farmers an option to immediately lock in a feed wheat price. The CWB on Monday said it will offer a feed wheat pricing option using its Early Payment Option (EPO) […]

Boosts approved for CWB initial payments

Nov. 26, 2010 at 6:15 pm CST

Prairie wheat and barley growers’ initial 2010-11 payments from the Canadian Wheat Board will see adjustments effective next week by as much as $90 per tonne for the highest-protein spring wheat. The increases, effective Dec. 2, will mean adjustment payments for Prairie farmers who will have delivered wheat, durum and […]

Ont. winter wheat area, optimism up, specialist says

Nov. 26, 2010 at 2:34 pm CST

(Commodity News Service Canada) — The area seeded to winter wheat in Ontario was up from the previous season, but fell short of record expectations, according to an official with the Ontario government. “Planting of Ontario’s winter wheat crop got off to a great start, and there had been ideas […]

By Dwayne Klassen