Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 22, 2009 at 11:29 pm CDT

Kudzu, a rapid-growing weed notorious in the southern U.S. both as a crop nuisance and as a host for Asian soybean rust, is seen as a less likely host for the crop disease in Ontario. The weed, known in the U.S. ag industry as “the vine that ate the south,” […]

Sep. 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm CDT

(Resource News International) –– Cash bids for canola in Western Canada have been steadily declining given ongoing harvest operations and the prospects of a crop that may be much larger than first anticipated. However, despite the drop in the cash price, basis levels for canola have been holding relatively stable, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Sep. 22, 2009 at 6:23 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Light frosts in parts of central and northern Alberta over the past weekend likely caused some downgrading to wheat and barley, according to an analyst with the Canadian Wheat Board’s weather and crop surveillance department. However, he pointed out that crops in the areas hit hardest […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 22, 2009 at 5:41 pm CDT

Sept. 22 — Outside markets were mildly supportive today, which helped grains try to regain some of yesterday’s losses. Concerns of frost in the U.S. over the next week lent some support to prices as well today, as crops are still far enough behind that a frost would certainly affect […]

By Brian Wittal

Sep. 22, 2009 at 3:10 pm CDT

The University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) has named its associate deans for research and innovation and for academic programming. Beverley Hale of OAC’s school of environmental sciences will serve as associate dean (research and innovation), and Jonathan Schmidt, also an environmental sciences faculty member, as associate dean (research), […]