Insights and Stories on Crops

B.C. tree fruit programs get AgriFlexibility funds

Jul. 5, 2010 at 6:17 pm CDT

Federal and provincial funding has been pledged to top up a program to control codling moth in British Columbia’s fruit-growing regions, and back other B.C. fruit marketing and capital projects. The federal and B.C. governments on Friday pledged $3 million and $2 million respectively for three separate programs backing the […]

Viterra buys western Sask. anhydrous site

Jul. 5, 2010 at 7:39 am CDT

Only minor relief from rain seen for Prairie producers

Jul. 2, 2010 at 11:09 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Shreddies maker buys Canadian frozen waffle firm

Jul. 2, 2010 at 11:04 pm CDT

CWB extends deadline for new-pool pricing

Jun. 30, 2010 at 10:19 pm CDT

Mexico throws wrench in canaryseed price outlook

Jun. 30, 2010 at 5:04 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The price outlook for canaryseed in Western Canada has taken a turn for the worse, given news that the government of Mexico has begun enforcing weed seed quarantines. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency received notice from Mexico on June 23 that all imports of Canadian canaryseed […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Headline approved against sunflower rust

Jun. 30, 2010 at 4:47 pm CDT

BASF’s foliar fungicide Headline has been granted a label expansion for treatment of sunflower crops against sunflower rust. “This registration is a critical one for sunflower growers in Western Canada,” Wayne Barton, BASF Canada’s market manager for fungicides, said in a release Wednesday. Sunflower rust is an “extremely damaging” disease, […]

Feds back OFA, OSCIA for ag biomass research

Jun. 29, 2010 at 9:22 pm CDT

An Ontario farmers’ research partnership to study all aspects of growing, storing and gathering farmed biomass and how best to profit from it has picked up $2.4 million in federal funding. The funding for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association was pledged Tuesday from […]

CP’s Alta. mainline reopens after washouts

Jun. 29, 2010 at 6:16 pm CDT

A washed-out section of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) mainline east of Medicine Hat, Alta. has been reopened following an 11-day outage. The reopening, which CP announced Tuesday, follows the reopening of the Calgary-based railway’s southern line between Lethbridge, Alta. and Swift Current, Sask. With normal traffic routing resumed, CP […]

Strength in feed barley cash bids seen short-lived

Jun. 29, 2010 at 5:41 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for feed barley in Western Canada have managed to strengthen over the past number of weeks, but the upside continues to be limited. “The main reason for the firmness in cash barley bids is that producers have remained reluctant sellers,” said Jerry Klassen, manager […]

By Dwayne Klassen