Insights and Stories on Crops

Roundup-resistant ragweed confirmed in Ont.

Mar. 24, 2010 at 1:47 pm CDT

Glyphosate-resistant giant ragweed is officially in Ontario, weed scientist Peter Sikkema confirmed Tuesday. Researchers grew plants from seeds of giant ragweed found in farmers’ fields in the southwestern part of the province in 2008 and the resulting weeds were resistant to glyphosate, Sikkema said at a farmers’ meeting at Uxbridge, […]

CanadaGAP offers new certification options

Mar. 24, 2010 at 1:26 pm CDT

Sask. declares gophers a provincial pest

Mar. 23, 2010 at 6:19 pm CDT

Prairie crop conditions vary heading into spring

Mar. 23, 2010 at 4:25 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada to probe imports of Dutch peppers

Mar. 22, 2010 at 10:32 pm CDT

N.B. maple industry upgrades funded

Mar. 22, 2010 at 7:15 am CDT

Nine maple syrup producers in northwestern New Brunswick will share $2.6 million in federal and provincial funds to renovate, expand and invest in new equipment. The funding, announced Friday, includes $1.91 million by way of the federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s business development program, and $757,238 from the provincial Northern […]

Canola crush pace picks up

Mar. 19, 2010 at 4:56 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– The canola crush pace by western Canadian processors has picked up significantly despite the fact the Canadian dollar has been pushing towards parity with the U.S. greenback. “A lot of the extra capacity that we have been anticipating has finally started to kick in,” Ron Frost, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nufarm adds Group 2 boost for glyphosate

Mar. 19, 2010 at 2:14 pm CDT

Off-patent chemical maker Nufarm has rolled out a new Group 2 herbicide for use in tandem with its glyphosate product in cereal crop burndowns. The Calgary arm of the Australian ag chem firm on Thursday launched Spike-Up, a Group 2 tribenuron herbicide with the same active ingredient found in DuPont’s […]

Arbitrator orders wage hikes for CN engineers

Mar. 19, 2010 at 1:38 pm CDT

Farmers who ship grain by rail can expect another two crop years of labour peace between Canadian National Railway (CN) and its 1,700 locomotive engineers. A federally-appointed arbitrator on Thursday ruled that the engineers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, will get wage increases of 1.8, 2.4 and 2.6 […]

Testing seen as best defense against Triffid

Mar. 19, 2010 at 12:53 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Canada’s flax growers will likely be faced with years of required testing in an effort to rid the market of the trace amounts of genetically modified (GM) flaxseed that have contaminated the country’s supply, participants in a teleconference sponsored by the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission were […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin