Insights and Stories on Crops

Feb. 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm CST

A market information database providing real-time data on New Brunswick’s potato acreage, potato varieties planted, storage estimates, prices and market destinations is $123,000 closer to going live. The Potato Market Data Information Gathering and Analyses system, expected to be completed by March 2011, is meant to give farmers a “stronger […]

Feb. 11, 2010 at 12:02 pm CST

An “exhaustive” RCMP audit to track down two tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer unaccounted for at a West Coast bulk chemical terminal has found the discrepancy existed only on paper. The RCMP’s E Division reported Tuesday that it’s found “no evidence of theft or other criminal involvement” in the inventory […]

Feb. 10, 2010 at 11:59 pm CST

The operation of provincially-owned British Columbia Railway Co. (BC Rail) will be folded into the province’s transportation and infrastructure ministry starting April 1. Provincial Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Shirley Bond said in a release Wednesday that by integrating the Crown corporation’s day-to-day operations into the ministry, “there will be ongoing […]

Feb. 10, 2010 at 4:49 pm CST

Alberta expects its spending on farm programs to shrink by about 7.5 per cent in what’s seen as an austerity budget that ends the province’s crop revenue insurance coverage (RIC) program. The province’s overall funding support for ag programs in Finance Minister Ted Morton’s 2010 budget, released Tuesday, is just […]

Feb. 10, 2010 at 2:20 pm CST

The export arm of the three major fertilizer firms mining Saskatchewan’s potash belt has sealed a potash deal to China’s Sinofert at “competitive” prices. Canpotex, operated by PotashCorp, Agrium and Mosaic Co., announced Monday it had agreed to ship about 350,000 tonnes of Canadian potash to China before the end […]