Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 30, 2009 at 5:25 pm CDT

Sept. 30 — Outside markets were mixed today as financials slid back on a quiet day with limited activity, while crude oil took a big jump upward. Currencies continued to bounce hard today as the U.S. dollar closed down just over four-10ths of a cent, and the Canadian dollar closed […]

By Brian Wittal

Sep. 30, 2009 at 4:08 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The updated grain and oilseed production survey from Statistics Canada, scheduled to be released Friday (Oct. 2), is expected to show a general increase in the size of all crops, according to market participants. However, the market participants wondered aloud, will the government agency’s survey results […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Sep. 30, 2009 at 1:29 am CDT

Australian regulators have approved the revised port access plan proposed by Viterra’s new Australian subsidiary, ABB Grain, allowing Viterra to export wheat from its port facilities in that country. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Tuesday granted ABB the approval it needs for Wheat Exports Australia (WEA) to […]

Sep. 29, 2009 at 6:30 pm CDT

Australian crop protection firm Nufarm has entered non-binding talks to sell itself to a major Chinese ag input manufacturer. Sinochem, a Beijing-based state-owned firm billed as the largest integrated agribusiness in China, running fertilizer, pesticide and seed operations, has proposed a “scheme of arrangement” worth A$13 per Nufarm share, valuing […]

By Dave Wreford

Sep. 29, 2009 at 4:51 pm CDT

A federal biofuels incentive fund has followed through on its contribution agreements to support one of the Prairies’ major ethanol producers and a biodiesel facility in southern Ontario. Husky Energy’s ethanol plant at Lloydminster, Sask. will get up to $71.8 million in funding over seven years through the government’s ecoEnergy […]