Insights and Stories on Crops

Oct. 16, 2009 at 10:55 pm CDT

Oct. 16 –– A rather mixed week in the grain markets as weather dominated, keeping the trade on edge waiting to see what the next day was going to bring. Financial indexes ended with losses today but were up slightly for the week overall. The U.S. dollar rose one-10th a […]

By Brian Wittal

Oct. 16, 2009 at 4:34 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The flaxseed cash market in Western Canada remains under pressure by absence of European demand, and will likely stay that way until the situation in Europe is resolved, or new markets are found. Canada has been unable to sell flaxseed to its biggest customers in Europe […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Oct. 16, 2009 at 4:03 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– The late harvest of soybeans and wet conditions preventing machinery from getting on fields is expected to reduce the area that will be seeded to winter wheat in Ontario. “If there had been a perfect fall, the area seeded to winter wheat in Ontario during the […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Oct. 16, 2009 at 2:54 pm CDT

A mobile grain-handling company and a group of Saskatchewan communities and investors have officially opened up the province’s 10th shortline railway. Last Mountain Railway is made up of 108 km of former Canadian National Railway (CN) track between Davidson, about midway between Regina and Saskatoon on Highway 11, and Lumsden, […]

Oct. 16, 2009 at 1:54 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board plans to save somewhere between $50,000 and $10, 000 over the next 18 months alone by handling some of its own wheat and barley testing in-house. The CWB on Thursday opened its first-ever lab for testing and grading Prairie grain, at the University of Saskatchewan’s Innovation […]