Insights and Stories on Crops

Oct. 21, 2009 at 3:47 pm CDT

An unnamed buyer’s planned $820,000 deal to buy the former Delta Foods maple syrup processing and storage plant at Brockville, Ont. has fallen through. Toronto produce company Dominion Citrus, which owns the 4.15 acres of property and the site’s two buildings, announced Tuesday that its still-anonymous buyer asked to be […]

Oct. 21, 2009 at 2:18 pm CDT

With revenue down across every segment of its freight business, Canadian National Railway (CN) was still able to post more revenue per carload in grain handling in its third quarter (Q3). Montreal-based CN on Tuesday posted profit of $461 million on $1.85 billion in revenues during its quarter ending Sept. […]

Oct. 21, 2009 at 12:27 pm CDT

Four southern Ontario farmers fined a total of over $90,000 for unlicensed use of Roundup Ready soybeans are the first to be banned from future use of Monsanto’s patented genetics under its “violator exclusion” policy. “One of the more significant outcomes of the case against these four growers is that […]

Oct. 21, 2009 at 2:07 am CDT

The Prince Edward Island government’s cabinet has approved plans to ban direct spreading of waste removed from septic systems onto farmland. Under the cabinet’s approved amendments to the provincial Environmental Protection Act, all septage must first be taken to an approved wastewater treatment facility for processing, starting Jan. 1, 2010. […]

Oct. 21, 2009 at 12:53 am CDT

A Case IH dealer in southern Manitoba is expected to be the latest buy for a publicly-traded, prairie-wide, Calgary-based stable of equipment dealerships. Rocky Mountain Dealerships said Tuesday it has signed a purchase and sale agreement to buy Enns Agri Sales Ltd. at Winkler, Man., about 110 km southwest of […]