Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 24, 2010 at 2:40 pm CDT

Canola that still hasn’t dried down after three, four or even five weeks in the swath is probably best left until after a couple of days of relatively warm weather, the Canola Council of Canada suggests. “It is still September and the risk of having to leave the crop to […]

Sep. 24, 2010 at 8:22 am CDT

Monsanto Canada’s DeKalb seed arm has rolled out a new application for use by corn and soybean growers on a “wide variety” of BlackBerry devices, to work out recommendations for planting populations. A farmer can go online to download the app to a BlackBerry, after which he or she would […]

Sep. 23, 2010 at 11:57 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — U.S. farmers managed to get most of their canola off the fields before wet weather set in to delay the final stages of this year’s harvest, according to an official with the Northern Canola Growers Association, who said the crop generally saw good yields and quality […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 23, 2010 at 11:03 pm CDT

Mining giant BHP Billiton has picked up the first of the regulatory approvals it needs in its US$43 billion hostile takeover bid for PotashCorp. The Australian mining firm on Thursday announced it has received “early termination” of the waiting period required under the U.S. Antitrust Improvements Act from that country’s […]

Sep. 23, 2010 at 10:18 pm CDT

The arrival of fall frosts and worries over U.S. corn yields are now stacked on top of the factors that led to last month’s rise in the Canadian Wheat Board’s pool return outlook (PRO) values for wheat. And based on what the CWB called “another tumultuous month,” values for Canada […]