Insights and Stories on Crops

Nov. 25, 2009 at 6:15 pm CST

Nov. 25 — Markets were buoyed by the continued surge in gold values and the drop in the U.S. dollar. This was enough to embolden speculators to re-enter the markets ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and take positions in anticipation of further drops in the U.S. dollar over the […]

By Brian Wittal

Nov. 25, 2009 at 5:56 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The small scale of U.S. canola production, and the fact that most of the U.S. crop is used domestically, has protected the U.S. industry to some extent from the export-related problems currently faced by the Canadian canola sector. But the two countries are closely linked when […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Nov. 25, 2009 at 5:00 pm CST

Organic and “natural” retailer Planet Organic Health Corp. plans to sell its “underperforming” Sangster’s retail chain, close its largest organic supermarket and lay off two senior managers. Through these moves the Edmonton-based company, whose lenders have already agreed to a 60-day forbearance period that expires Monday (Nov. 30), aims to […]

Nov. 25, 2009 at 3:48 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Producers in the grain-growing regions of Western Canada will have lower-than-normal precipitation levels to work with this spring as they try to seed crops, according to preliminary projections from an industry analyst. “The short- and longer-term crop models are calling for very little precipitation ahead of […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm CST

Canadian National Railway (CN) has been served notice that its locomotive engineers are headed out on strike just after midnight Saturday (Nov. 28). Montreal-based CN said in a release Wednesday that it received the required 72 hours’ notice this morning from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about […]