Insights and Stories on Crops

Wheat topples limit-down day after rally: reports

Aug. 6, 2010 at 6:23 pm CDT

Wheat markets dropped to their loss limit the day after a major jump following Russia’s announcement that it plans to suspend wheat exports. According to a report from Winnipeg by the Reuters news service, Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) September wheat dropped its limit-down US60 cents Friday, a slip of […]

Wheat pricing opportunity knocks, CWB says

Aug. 5, 2010 at 4:01 pm CDT

Grain prices push Agrium profits near record

Aug. 5, 2010 at 12:01 pm CDT

Prairie winter wheat acreage to climb

Aug. 5, 2010 at 12:00 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Growers should scout clubroot-resistant canolas also

Aug. 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm CDT

CTA dismisses producer car loader’s CN complaint

Aug. 4, 2010 at 3:57 pm CDT

CN isn’t bound by law to keep or operate a producer car site wherever one exists or a farmer wants one, Canada’s transport regulator has ruled. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Wednesday dismissed a level-of-service complaint filed late last year by Cam Goff, a central Saskatchewan farmer and farmer-elected […]

Cargill to buy Calgary-area Viterra elevator

Aug. 3, 2010 at 10:20 pm CDT

The Canadian arm of U.S. agrifood firm Cargill plans to buy its way further into the southern Alberta grain handling market, picking up an elevator from Canada’s biggest grain firm. Winnipeg-based Cargill Ltd. on Tuesday announced a deal to buy the Viterra grain elevator at Carseland, about 50 km east […]

DNA-based disease detection backed for hort crops

Aug. 3, 2010 at 6:05 pm CDT

A southeastern Quebec firm working on DNA-based disease detection and monitoring for vegetable and fruit crops will get $1.2 million in federal backing for its R+D work. Phytodata Inc., based at Sherrington in the Monteregie region south of Montreal, is already partnered with McCain Foods Canada to develop such detection […]

Sask. triples provincial disaster aid cap for farms

Aug. 3, 2010 at 3:36 pm CDT

Saskatchewan has retroactively raised the cap on its provincial disaster assistance program (PDAP) to $500,000 from $160,000 for farms and some small businesses. Premier Brad Wall on Tuesday announced a list of changes to the PDAP retroactive to the start of the province’s fiscal year on April 1, allowing the […]

Good export year ends, poor one looms: CWB

Jul. 30, 2010 at 2:31 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board says its exports for the crop year ending July 31 are at a 10-year high, but that they will be sharply lower in the coming year due to poor crop prospects in Western Canada. Exports of wheat, durum and barley for 2009-10 will total 18.8 million […]

By Staff