Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 28, 2010 at 6:50 pm CDT

Prairie wheat growers who’ve delivered into the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2009-10 pool can expect an adjustment payment in the next few weeks. The federal government on Friday approved increases of between $5 and $44.65 per tonne, depending on wheat grade, class and protein level, effective June 3 (Thursday). For example, […]

May. 28, 2010 at 2:47 pm CDT

Sales of greenhouse products increased 10.4 per cent to about $2.4 billion in 2009, rebounding from declines in both 2007 and 2008, Statistics Canada reported this week. Sales of both sod and nursery products also increased in 2009 compared to the previous year, the federal statistics agency said. Sales of […]

By Statistics Canada

May. 28, 2010 at 1:19 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Traditional commodity funds are holding large short positions in canola, while speculative index funds remain long the market. The funds were actively rolling those positions out of the nearby July contract and into the November futures Friday, and traders expected fund rolling to remain a feature […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

May. 27, 2010 at 10:59 pm CDT

Any attempts at rallies in the world wheat market continue to run up against “burdensome” global wheat supplies, putting pressure on the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlooks (PROs) for the crop. The CWB’s outlooks, released Thursday, saw most new-crop (2010-11) wheat values drop by between $1 and $6 […]

May. 27, 2010 at 10:00 pm CDT

A Kansas City-based grain processor with facilities in Texas and Nebraska is poised to be the latest expansion southward for Canada’s biggest grain handler. Viterra said Thursday it has signed a US$90.5 million cash deal to buy 21st Century Grain Processing, which makes whole-grain ingredients for the cereal, baking and […]