Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 15, 2009 at 5:42 pm CDT

Sept. 15 –– Financial and energy markets showed steady gains today, which helped set the tone for the day for other markets as well. Forecasts for frost for next week seemed to catch the interest of traders. Add to that renewed buying interest in the grains and you have yourself […]

By Brian Wittal

Sep. 15, 2009 at 5:01 pm CDT

A rapid test to gauge sprouting damage in wheat is being studied as a possible replacement for the naked eye in wheat grading. The Canadian Grain Commission announced Monday it would enter a second phase of an industry pilot program to test rapid visco analysis (RVA), for which it will […]

Sep. 15, 2009 at 1:58 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Summer has finally come to Manitoba, which is good news for soybeans in the province. The crop will need the warm temperatures to hold out for at least two more weeks in order to make it to harvest, according to a southern Manitoba merchant. “This weather […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 15, 2009 at 1:33 am CDT

Transactions by U.S. traders in futures contracts on Winnipeg’s commodity exchange will soon get the same tax treatment as those made on U.S. exchanges. ICE Futures Canada announced Friday that it’s been designated as a “qualified board or exchange” by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Thus, ICE Futures Canada […]

Sep. 15, 2009 at 12:56 am CDT

Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning plant scientist whose work on food crops linked agricultural productivity to stability in developing countries, died Saturday night at age 95. Texas A+M University, where he had held the title of Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture in the department of soil and crop sciences […]