Insights and Stories on Crops

Oct. 14, 2010 at 7:00 am CDT

An interim report from Transport Canada’s rail freight service review panel has drawn lukewarm reviews for proposing both “commercial solutions” and a “regulatory fallback” to deal with rail service issues. The panel, chaired by former Alberta agriculture minister Walter Paszkowski, now wants public comment on its proposals, by a deadline […]

Oct. 14, 2010 at 4:19 am CDT

Pledges that PotashCorp’s headquarters will remain in Saskatchewan and maintain a “commitment” to the export marketing agency Canpotex are among the conditions the company plans to tie to any takeover bid it supports. Saskatoon-based PotashCorp, currently fending off a hostile bid from just one suitor, Australian-based mining giant BHP Billiton, […]

Oct. 13, 2010 at 11:11 pm CDT

Corn prices have rallied $2.50 per bushel, since the market stopped going down on June 29, 2010. Some of the buying is a result of hedgers locking in prices before the market goes higher, but to a larger degree, it’s the large speculative buy orders that have driven prices to […]

By David Drozd

Oct. 13, 2010 at 3:58 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — With producers going all out in an effort to get the canola crop off the field, there has been plenty of activity in the cash market with no shortage of elevator deliveries. Cash prices have gone steadily higher over the last month, and Mike Jubinville, an […]

By Brent Harder

Oct. 12, 2010 at 10:51 pm CDT

Multinational agrifood firm Bunge has kicked off plans to expand its processing plants in Western Canada with a project to more than double its canola crush at Altona, Man. Bunge’s St. Louis-based North American arm announced an expansion project Tuesday that will see the Altona plant’s processing capacity boosted to […]