Insights and Stories on Crops

Alta. to offer hail insurance sign-ups online

Jun. 4, 2010 at 8:09 am CDT

Crop and forage growers in Alberta can now buy straight hail insurance online through the province’s ag financing and insurance agency. The province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) announced last week it would provide growers with the 24-hour online purchase option as well as the “traditional methods” of buying hail […]

Bayer adds third active to wheat crop herbicide

Jun. 4, 2010 at 5:36 am CDT

World Cup pitches to feature Man. turfgrass seed

Jun. 3, 2010 at 5:22 pm CDT

Most, not all, Man. corn crops OK after rain

Jun. 3, 2010 at 3:35 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Soaked Sask. extends insurance deadlines on seeding

Jun. 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm CDT

Three Sask. Case IH dealers to join Alta. chain

Jun. 3, 2010 at 11:41 am CDT

An expansion-minded Calgary ag equipment dealership chain specializing in Case IH plans to add three southeastern Saskatchewan locations to its portfolio. Rocky Mountain Dealerships announced Thursday it has signed a deal to buy “certain assets” of Wardale Equipment, including its Case IH dealerships at Yorkton, Langenburg and Preeceville, Sask., for […]

Canola an acquired taste for Man. cankerworms

Jun. 2, 2010 at 10:08 pm CDT

An insect pest with no appetite for canola has found its way into some southern Manitoba canola crops thanks to recent stormy weather. In his weekly insect and disease update, provincial ag entomologist John Gavloski on Monday said cankerworms had been reported feeding in a canola field near Winkler. An […]

Monsanto Canada offers resistance risk calculator

Jun. 2, 2010 at 10:00 pm CDT

The maker of the best-known brand of glyphosate has put up a Canadian version of an online service it says will help Prairie farmers gauge the risk of glyphosate-resistant weeds appearing in their fields. The news comes as Monsanto Canada’s U.S. parent plans to pare back its various brands of […]

Weather issues could boost canola basis levels

Jun. 2, 2010 at 2:57 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Weather problems causing seeding delays to the western Canadian canola crop will likely result in better basis levels for those producers with canola to sell, especially as the futures remain stuck in a flat range and could be headed lower, according to a market analyst. Errol […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Moisture delays Alta. seeding: AARD

Jun. 1, 2010 at 10:59 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Seeding completion in Alberta ranges from 50 per cent in southern areas to 90 per cent complete in more northerly regions as of June 1, according to a provincial crop specialist. But seeding procedures across the province have been at a halt due to the rain […]

By Amanda Lefley