Insights and Stories on Crops

Que. pledges $1M for ornamental horticulture centre

Nov. 18, 2009 at 6:33 pm CST

Quebec’s ag ministry will put up $1 million for the development of a new showcase centre for ornamental horticulture near l’Institut de technologie agroalimentaire, the ag college at St-Hyacinthe. La Maison de l’horticulture ornementale, as the new facility will be called, will involve renovation and restructuring of existing space for […]

Ont. horticulture scientist Ron Pitblado, 63

Nov. 18, 2009 at 6:12 pm CST

B.C. to spray against gypsy moth at Richmond

Nov. 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm CST

Drozd: Two-week reversal indicates soybean prices will be pressured

Nov. 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm CST

By David Drozd

CN, locomotive engineers’ union resume talks

Nov. 18, 2009 at 1:21 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Japan finds GMOs in Canadian flax

Nov. 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm CST

(Resource News International) — News that Japan has found genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in a shipment of Canadian flaxseed has increased concern among Canada’s flaxseed industry that additional countries may start halting imports. The GM material in the Canadian flaxseed is the same material that has been found in shipments […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Saudi wheat market seen as competitive but growing

Nov. 17, 2009 at 7:44 pm CST

(Resource News International) –– Saudi Arabia has become a major wheat importer over the past year, taking a large portion of Canadian wheat in its tenders, while some U.S. wheat exporters have complained Canada was discounting its wheat to make the sales. However, the Canadian Wheat Board contends that while […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Wittal: Speculative buying supports beans, wheat

Nov. 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm CST

Nov. 17 –– Financial markets were quiet or down a little today as the U.S. dollar rallied back to regain what it lost yesterday. Gold was steady to unchanged on the day. The energy sector was steady, with crude up just slightly on the day. The U.S. grain markets were […]

By Brian Wittal

Blackleg test in works for canola exports to China

Nov. 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is developing a new test for blackleg in canola in order to better meet new Chinese regulations on canola imports. As of Nov. 15, all canola imports to China require phytosanitary certificates that the shipment is free of blackleg, a […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oat bids slowly trending higher

Nov. 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Cash bids in Western Canada for oats have been trending upward, albeit at a very slow pace. Continued large carry-in supplies of oats have been preventing values from climbing faster. “There is still a lot of oats from the previous year’s harvest that we are dealing […]

By Dwayne Klassen