Insights and Stories on Crops

Pioneer Hi-Bred plans new parent seed facility

Sep. 8, 2010 at 4:44 pm CDT

DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business has bought land in southwestern Ontario for a new “multi-million-dollar” parent seed production facility. The company on Wednesday described the planned facility, which will serve its markets across the country, as a “key component” of the investments it’s making in Canada. Construction is to start […]

StatsCan canola stocks top expectations, provide buffer

Sep. 8, 2010 at 10:59 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Former ag minister named Grits’ deputy leader

Sep. 8, 2010 at 7:00 am CDT

Alliance Grain buys further into S. Australia

Sep. 7, 2010 at 5:53 pm CDT

Frost worries loom for Prairie farmers

Sep. 7, 2010 at 4:23 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Sask. ethanol grant program extended into 2012

Sep. 4, 2010 at 3:26 am CDT

Plans for Saskatchewan to merge its ethanol grant program into a federal fund are on hold pending a major review. The province said Friday it will maintain its ethanol grant program (EGP) under “current criteria” until its “comprehensive” review of the program is complete, expected in 2012. “This will help […]

Sask. seeks review of potential PotashCorp takeover

Sep. 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government has enlisted a major research agency to run an “independent analysis” of a multinational mining firm’s proposed takeover bid for PotashCorp. It’s been over 20 years since PotashCorp was a provincial Crown corporation, but “no matter who owns the potash mines, the people of Saskatchewan own the […]

Smaller flax crop to limit exports, but demand firm

Sep. 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Canada’s smaller flaxseed crop will mean a reduction in exports for 2010-11. However, for what’s moving, new protocols in place for genetically modified seed mean a large portion of the exports will again head to Europe. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is currently predicting flaxseed exports in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Merck’s EMD launches new soybean inoculant

Sep. 3, 2010 at 12:55 pm CDT

EMD Crop BioScience has rolled out what it bills as a “unique” seed-applied inoculant to boost emergence, nodulation and yield in soybeans. The Canadian arm of Milwaukee-based EMD, itself an arm of drug and chemical firm Merck, said Wednesday its new product Optimize comes with patented technology that will allow […]

StatsCan stocks report to adjust carryover picture

Sep. 3, 2010 at 12:31 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Statistics Canada is set to release an updated grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report Wednesday (Sept. 8), with market participants looking to plug in final 2009-10 carryover figures to adjust their 2010-11 balance sheets. The StatsCan survey results will be for the period ended […]

By Dwayne Klassen