Insights and Stories on Crops

Canada Bread picks Hamilton for mega-bakery

Feb. 17, 2010 at 5:22 pm CST

Maple Leaf Foods’ Canada Bread has reached a deal in principle to site a planned $100 million bakery facility, the largest of its kind in Canada, on the south side of Hamilton. City and company officials have an agreement on a 25-acre property in the North Glanbrook Industrial Park, east […]

Alta. ag equipment dealers branch out

Feb. 17, 2010 at 6:30 am CST

Sask. mustard miller’s capacity expansion funded

Feb. 16, 2010 at 5:17 pm CST

Oats bids slow in recovery

Feb. 16, 2010 at 4:32 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sun-Rype hires new CEO from within

Feb. 16, 2010 at 3:20 pm CST

CN names new marketing exec for ag business

Feb. 16, 2010 at 11:15 am CST

Canadian National Railway has named a new vice-president to market the railway’s services to the grain and fertilizer sectors. Andy Gonta, CN’s new vice-president for its bulk business, is one of six vice-presidents named Tuesday to a new senior “marketing team” led by CN chief marketing officer Jean-Jacques Ruest. Gonta, […]

Canadian N plants part of Yara/Terra merger

Feb. 16, 2010 at 12:05 am CST

Nitrogen fertilizer plants in Saskatchewan and Ontario can expect a new set of managers and owners, respectively, within the next year. Norwegian chemical firm Yara International announced plans Monday to buy Sioux City, Iowa-based fertilizer firm Terra Industries in an all-cash merger worth US$4.1 billion. The terms of the deal […]

Rail review panel extends comment period

Feb. 15, 2010 at 11:43 pm CST

The deadline has been extended to air concerns about rail service to federal Transport Minister John Baird’s rail freight service review panel. The panel, formed last September and chaired by former Alberta agriculture minister Walter Paszkowski, is still waiting on the public release of two of six research reports required […]

Feds fund herbicide-tolerant flax development

Feb. 12, 2010 at 4:06 pm CST

New herbicide-tolerant flax varieties, and better sampling and testing methods to weed out genetically-modified (GM) flaxseed, are the goals in mind for almost $6 million in public funding. Federal Ag Minister Gerry Ritz on Friday pledged $4 million from the federal Developing Innovative Agri-Products (DIAP) program for the Flax Council […]

Lentil demand backing away

Feb. 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Demand for lentils has backed away for the time being, causing prices in Western Canada to move lower as well. “We’ve now had about three years in a row of historically high red and green lentil prices,” said Cam Laxdal, Lakeside Global Grain’s vice-president in Winnipeg. […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin