Insights and Stories on Crops

CWB to take fusarium-affected winter wheat

Oct. 12, 2010 at 3:00 pm CDT

Prairie winter wheat growers whose No. 2 Canada Western red winter (CWRW) crop has turned up with high levels of fusarium have until Oct. 31 to get in on a Canadian Wheat Board program to deliver it. The CWB last week rolled out a Series A 2010-11 delivery program in […]

Prairie flax harvest nearing midpoint

Oct. 12, 2010 at 1:35 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Que. fruit processor funded for protective coatings

Oct. 12, 2010 at 1:10 pm CDT

Ont. fund backs farmers to sell to public sector

Oct. 11, 2010 at 10:59 pm CDT

N.L. backs crop inoculant manufacturing startup

Oct. 8, 2010 at 6:05 pm CDT

Durum, organic growers’ APP deadlines stayed

Oct. 8, 2010 at 3:38 pm CDT

Durum wheat and certified organic grain growers who took out cash advances under the 2009 Advance Payments Program (APP) now have until the end of April to repay. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Friday announced a stay of default on APP repayments until April 30, 2011 for those who […]

CWB interim payments set for old-crop wheat, barley

Oct. 8, 2010 at 3:18 pm CDT

Prairie wheat and malting barley growers can expect interim payments in the next few weeks on most grades delivered into the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2009-10 pools. The board on Friday announced interim payments of $16 per tonne on 2009-10 wheat, and $10 per tonne on all 2009-10 designated (malting) barley. […]

Disinfectant maker to study herbs’ Canadian viability

Oct. 7, 2010 at 6:38 pm CDT

A Quebec company making plant-based disinfectants for use in the livestock and food processing sectors plans to study whether its source plants can be grown in Canada’s conditions. Laboratoire M2, based at Sherbrooke, has picked up a $64,700 grant through the federal Developing Innovative Agri-Products (DIAP) initiative to study the […]

Sask. growers harvest third of crop in one week

Oct. 7, 2010 at 6:02 pm CDT

A string of warm and sunny days allowed Saskatchewan’s grain growers to take off 31 per cent of their crop over seven days ending Monday. That brings the total 2010 harvest up to 60 per cent complete so far, the provincial ag ministry said in its report Thursday for the […]

Canola exports busy off West Coast

Oct. 7, 2010 at 5:49 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– A large number of vessels currently loading, or waiting to load, canola at Canada’s West Coast is a sign of the solid demand for the commodity. That’s according to an export official who expected the pace would remain strong, but said a current backlog at the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin