Insights and Stories on Crops

Oct. 4, 2010 at 8:00 am CDT

Thunder Bay’s Mission Terminal grain elevator has picked up provincial funding toward a project to boost its handling capacity. Mission Terminal, which bills itself as Canada’s largest administrator of Prairie farmer-loaded producer cars, will get $1 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. through its Enterprises North Job Creation […]

Oct. 3, 2010 at 8:43 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Manitoba potato producers have experienced a wide range of growing conditions all year, and now are experiencing a wide range of quality for their crop. Brian Wilson, potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, said the wet conditions that have affected Manitoba during September […]

By Brent Harder

Oct. 2, 2010 at 6:18 am CDT

Canadian National Railway (CN) expects to have three years of labour peace with its conductors, traffic co-ordinators and yardmen once they ratify a tentative deal reached Friday. CN and the 2,700 unionized workers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), had been in talks on and off since the […]

Oct. 2, 2010 at 4:52 am CDT

Fruit juice maker Sun-Rype has bought one of its major U.S. suppliers in Washington state for an undisclosed sum. The Kelowna, B.C. firm announced Friday it had a deal effective Sept. 30 to buy the business and assets of Yakama Juice of Selah, Wash., near Yakima, from the Confederated Tribes […]

Oct. 1, 2010 at 5:43 pm CDT

The Winnipeg owner of a stable of grain handling equipment makers has bought a custom manufacturing firm to make more of its components in-house. Ag Growth International on Friday announced it’s bought Winnipeg-based Franklin Enterprises for $7.1 million plus working capital. The company offers “significant manufacturing flexibility” for Ag Growth, […]