Insights and Stories on Crops

Wheat, malting barley up in final old-crop PRO

Sep. 23, 2010 at 9:36 pm CDT

Complete or near-complete pool sales have led to relatively minor movement across the Canadian Wheat Board’s last pool return outlook (PRO) for the 2009-10 crop year. “With pool sales essentially complete, changes in PRO values due to shifts in prices and foreign exchange are relatively small,” the CWB said in […]

Mustard seed market not pleasing producers

Sep. 23, 2010 at 5:58 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Potash Corp. sues to thwart takeover bid

Sep. 22, 2010 at 4:20 pm CDT

Dry weather needed for flax harvest

Sep. 22, 2010 at 3:12 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

CropLife Canada report spells out case for innovation

Sep. 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm CDT

Difficult harvest increases feed wheat supplies

Sep. 21, 2010 at 4:21 pm CDT

Adverse harvest conditions across the Canadian prairies is pointing to large volumes of feed wheat around this winter. Gerald Snip, a grain trader with Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, said most of Alberta and Saskatchewan are having big problems getting the crop off. “It’s just too wet to even get […]

By Brent Harder

Frost changes canola harvesting plans

Sep. 21, 2010 at 1:28 pm CDT

Swath canola hit by heavy frost. Canola that was still fairly green when heavy frost hit over the past week will desiccate quickly. Pods can start dropping or shattering within days. Pods dry out prematurely, then shatter or break off at the pedicel. In areas hit by successive heavy frosts, […]

By Canola Council of Canada

GFO names market development chief

Sep. 20, 2010 at 9:56 pm CDT

The manager in charge of research work for Ontario’s wheat, soybean and corn growers’ groups will now also be in charge of their market development file. Crosby Devitt was named Monday to a new combined title as manager of research and market development for the Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), […]

Sask. farmer fined in contractor employee’s death

Sep. 20, 2010 at 8:51 pm CDT

A southern Saskatchewan farmer has been fined over the electrocution death of a concrete company employee working on his property. Jeffrey Wilcocks, who farms in the Southey area north of Regina, pled guilty Sept. 15 in Provincial Court in Regina to one charge under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety […]

Manitoba corn seen strong as U.S. prices rise

Sep. 20, 2010 at 5:57 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Corn producers in Manitoba are looking at very high prices for their product, thanks in large part to what’s been happening south of the border. Eldon Dueck, corn production manager with Linear Grain at Carman, Man. said the corn market on the Chicago Board of Trade […]

By Brent Harder