Insights and Stories on Crops

Jun. 28, 2010 at 9:20 am CDT

A Quebec City-area company has picked up federal funding for a project to boost the performance and quality of Canadian-grown strawberries and raspberries. Les Fraises de l’Ile d’Orleans will get $276,875 through the Developing Innovative Agri-Products initiative, to assess new varieties of berries and develop effective breeding processes. “In our […]

Jun. 26, 2010 at 10:23 pm CDT

Manitoba’s Crown crop insurance agency plans to shift more staff and resources to areas of the province hardest hit by overland flooding on farmers’ fields. The move by Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp. (MASC) is meant to make sure farmers who’ve lost crops as a result get access to excess-moisture insurance […]

Jun. 25, 2010 at 10:56 pm CDT

A University of Guelph study in soybean fields suggests organic pesticides may not always be as easy on the environment as synthetic bug killers would be. It’s “too simplistic” to say an organic product is by its nature better for the environment, Hallett, a professor in Guelph’s school of environmental […]

Jun. 25, 2010 at 12:05 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Flaxseed bids in Western Canada have climbed sharply over the past month, as concerns about lost acres in Saskatchewan and damage to crops already in the ground supported values. Just how high the market goes, however, will depend on production prospects over the summer. Statistics Canada […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 24, 2010 at 11:06 pm CDT

Canada’s biggest grain handler plans to boost storage capacity at its high-throughput elevator west of Edmonton by the end of this year. Viterra announced Tuesday it would increase total storage capacity by 12,000 tonnes at its facility at Acheson, about 10 km west of the city, for a new capacity […]