Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 21, 2009 at 3:10 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Feed barley bids in Western Canada have moved to some pretty depressed levels, but values should begin to stabilize at these lows. “There is little reason to believe that feed barley values are going to experience any kind of rally, but they should at least hold […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Sep. 21, 2009 at 1:46 am CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board will use government-backed financing to extend the life of its fleet of hopper-bottom grain cars to 2030. The CWB said Friday that the planned upgrades to 3,411 cars will extend the fleet’s service time by 16 years. “Leasing hopper cars to the railways generates revenue for […]

Sep. 21, 2009 at 1:24 am CDT

Farmers who’d hoped to build up Prince Edward Island’s milling wheat acres have reportedly dumped thousands of tonnes of wheat due to what’s now been deemed a “misprint” in a memo from one of the farmers’ principal customers. Wes Sheridan, P.E.I.’s acting agriculture minister, said in a joint statement Friday […]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 1:46 am CDT

Alberta canola growers trying to ward off clubroot could have a resistant canola hybrid by as early as spring 2010, pending regulators’ approval. Monsanto Canada on Friday announced its plans to introduce a new clubroot-resistant hybrid for seeding this spring, as part of its DeKalb 73-series line of hybrids. Clubroot, […]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 1:21 am CDT

British Columbia for the first time has imposed a “temporary curtailment” of water use by irrigators and others on a waterway in the province. Environment Minister Barry Penner on Friday ordered the curtailment on the Nicola River, upstream from Nicola Lake, to protect the river’s kokanee salmon population. “Due to […]