Insights and Stories on Crops

Sask. canaryseed intentions seen burdening market

Apr. 27, 2010 at 11:04 am CDT

The farmers’ adage that good prices are the cure for good prices could prove true if Prairie canaryseed growers follow through on Statistics Canada’s reported intentions. The Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan (CDCS) warned Monday that the federal statistics agency’s expectation of 510,000 canaryseed acres in 2010, combined with an […]

Binned dry or not, check canola: Council

Apr. 27, 2010 at 10:42 am CDT

Record canola acres likely higher still

Apr. 26, 2010 at 10:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. durum area likely up from early expectations

Apr. 23, 2010 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Suit over canola growers’ lost laptop dropped

Apr. 23, 2010 at 11:50 am CDT

New-crop wheat falls further in CWB PROs

Apr. 22, 2010 at 9:22 pm CDT

Large global stocks of milling wheat and durum have again pressured the Canadian Wheat Board’s price outlooks lower for the 2010-11 crop year. The CWB on Thursday cut its monthly pool return outlook (PRO) values for all grades of milling wheat by $7 per tonne from March levels, and trimmed […]

Quebec board shoots down limits on farm unions

Apr. 22, 2010 at 5:08 pm CDT

Quebec’s labour relations commission has cut out language in the province’s labour code that had blocked seasonal farm workers from unionizing. Ruling in favour of Mexican workers at a Montreal-area cabbage farm, Ferme L+L, the province’s Commission des relations du travail (CRT) last Friday declared a line of section 21 […]

Large canola acres expected in StatsCan report

Apr. 22, 2010 at 4:52 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Statistics Canada’s seeding intentions report, to be released Monday, is widely expected to show farmers seeding more acres to canola this spring, as it’s one of the few crops that pencil out favourably, according to industry participants. Pre-report trade estimates peg Canadian canola area in 2010 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Flax council, Cibus team on herbicide-tolerant traits

Apr. 22, 2010 at 3:55 pm CDT

U.S. crop trait development firm Cibus has signed on for an alliance with the Flax Council of Canada to work on non-transgenic (that is, non-genetically modified) flax traits. San Diego-based Cibus is to use its Rapid Trait Development System (RTDS) to develop traits that will improve yields and yield healthier […]

Planned biodiesel crusher gets needed Alta. permit

Apr. 21, 2010 at 6:00 pm CDT

B.C. biofuel maker BioStreet Canada says it’s been granted the provincial environmental permit it needs to move ahead on its planned biodiesel crusher and refinery at Vegreville, Alta. Company president Darrell Michaels described the province’s approval in a release Wednesday as a “significant milestone” for the $210 million project, dubbed […]

By Dave Bedard