Insights and Stories on Crops

Dow AgroSciences to buy Hyland Seeds

Nov. 25, 2009 at 1:00 am CST

“Northern tier” seed breeding is expected to gain from Dow AgroSciences Canada’s plan to buy Ontario-based breeder Hyland Seeds. Thompsons Ltd., a major Ontario grain handling firm based at Blenheim, about 100 km east of Windsor, has agreed to sell its Hyland division to Calgary-based Dow Agro, with a closing […]

Agrium expands further into U.S. ag retail

Nov. 24, 2009 at 11:47 pm CST

Wittal: Wheat, corn futures drop

Nov. 24, 2009 at 11:12 pm CST

By Brian Wittal

Barley bids ease, continue to sit at low levels

Nov. 24, 2009 at 4:59 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Global role expands for Bayer canola exec

Nov. 24, 2009 at 12:12 pm CST

N.B. cancels rental hikes on Crown land

Nov. 24, 2009 at 12:02 pm CST

The New Brunswick government has frozen its rental rates for Crown land while it commissions an independent study of its public land’s market value. The provincial natural resources department said in a release Tuesday that it heard from “hundreds” of Crown leaseholders after it recently announced an increase in Crown […]

Talks end between CN, engineers with no deal

Nov. 24, 2009 at 6:18 am CST

Collective bargaining talks between Canadian National Railway (CN) and the union for its 1,700 engineers ended Friday without an agreement and no further talks scheduled, the company and union said Monday. But CN said late Monday it will go ahead anyway with plans to raise its unionized engineers’ wages and […]

Wittal: U.S. grains lose momentum of falling dollar

Nov. 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm CST

Nov. 23 –– Financial markets found new momentum today and regained most of the losses from last week. The energy sector was rather quiet but ended the day with small gains in both crude and natural gas. U.S. grain markets started the day with solid gains as speculators tried to […]

By Brian Wittal

Prairie mustard bids steady to firmer

Nov. 23, 2009 at 6:14 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Bids for yellow mustard in Western Canada have been holding fairly steady while bids for brown and oriental mustard have had nowhere else to go but up. “There has not been any rush to push the bids for yellows up from buyers and in fact values […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Viterra eyeing Ukraine expansion: reports

Nov. 23, 2009 at 3:42 pm CST

(Resource News International) –– Viterra is actively pursuing business opportunities in Ukraine, according to news reports from the country. A representative for Canada’s largest grain handler confirmed that the company was “developing relationships” in Ukraine, but said there were no announcements to be made at this point. Viterra CEO Mayo […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin