Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 8, 2010 at 5:13 pm CDT

In what’s billed as “the largest and fastest AgriRecovery relief package to date,” Prairie crop producers will get $30 for each acre flooded in major rainstorms this spring and summer. The federal, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta governments on Thursday pledged to cost-share a $450 million AgriRecovery package to help farmers […]

Jul. 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm CDT

Updated estimates from Canada’s largest grain company on the number of total seeded acres across the Prairies don’t bode well for the ag retail sector as a whole, Viterra warns. Ahead of Statistics Canada’s next batch of seeded acreage estimates in August, the Regina-based grain firm on Thursday announced a […]

Jul. 7, 2010 at 6:26 pm CDT

Seed and ag chem firms BASF Plant Science and Monsanto Co. have agreed to expand their joint biotech development work into wheat, potentially bringing an “enhanced-yielding” wheat to market — at least 10 years from now. And the two companies said Wednesday they plan to “initially focus on developing biotech […]

Jul. 6, 2010 at 6:22 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — A number of crops in Manitoba have been hampered by the continuous wet conditions, but the exception appears to be corn, which was reported to be in pretty good if not excellent shape. “To tell you the truth, Manitoba’s corn crop is actually looking pretty good,” […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Jul. 6, 2010 at 8:00 am CDT

In what’s expected to be Prairie wheat growers’ biggest sale to China in five years, state-run food processing firm COFCO has signed an agreement to buy half a million tonnes of Canadian spring wheat. The deal, which the Canadian Wheat Board said is worth about C$130 million at current market […]