Insights and Stories on Crops

Mar. 29, 2010 at 7:16 pm CDT

Packed in cold storage, a biological fungicide that attacks sclerotinia in the soil is bound for a limited spring release to Prairie sunflower, bean and canola growers. UAP Canada, the ag input arm of fertilizer firm Agrium, has prepared cold storage at its Regina warehouse facility to handle distribution in […]

Mar. 29, 2010 at 6:22 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for flaxseed in Western Canada have trended in a fairly steady to slightly easier price pattern and there does not seem to be much in the way of developments to break it out of the status quo. “Every once in a while there are […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Mar. 29, 2010 at 5:47 pm CDT

This week, along with their issue of Alberta Farmer, grain producers in the province will receive a new publication called Yield Alberta, a joint project between Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) and Alberta Farmer. Yield Alberta contains variety yield data as reported by farmers participating in AFSC’s crop insurance program. […]

Mar. 26, 2010 at 10:52 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Old- and new-crop canola bids in Western Canada continue to deteriorate, with producers not exactly pleased with the situation. “Cash bids in general for old and new crop have been less than appealing to producers and could still play a role in exactly how much of […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Mar. 25, 2010 at 6:56 pm CDT

“Burdensome” supplies have pressured wheat, durum and barley values down in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlooks (PROs) for both the 2010-11 and 2009-10 crop years. The CWB on Thursday marked down its March 2010-11 PROs for milling wheat values by $14-$16 per tonne from February values, with […]