Insights and Stories on Crops

Sep. 11, 2009 at 12:03 am CDT

Manitoba will make an average two per cent biodiesel content mandatory for all diesel fuel sold in the province, starting Nov. 1. “Biodiesel will benefit Manitoba’s agricultural communities while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 56,000 tonnes, the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road annually,” provincial Energy Minister Jim […]

Sep. 10, 2009 at 7:54 pm CDT

A Saskatchewan-bred, deregistered and never-commercialized flax variety that became both the first and last genetically modified linseed is reported to have turned up at a German food processing plant. And anti-GM campaigners suggest the finding may lead to some embarrassing questions for Canada’s flax industry at a time when market […]

By Dave Bedard

Sep. 10, 2009 at 6:53 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Farmers in Western Canada should have at least one more week of good harvest weather without the risk of a major frost, before “all bets are off,” according to a U.S.-based meteorologist Thursday. Overnight temperatures have dipped near freezing on a number of occasions, but Western […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 10, 2009 at 6:47 pm CDT

One last report from the Alberta agency that spearheaded reduced-tillage farming in the province summarizes the benefits and costs for farmers seen during the move to no-till systems. Alberta Reduced Tillage Linkages (RTL), which shut down its operations at the end of August, said in a release that the report […]

Sep. 10, 2009 at 5:22 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Canola basis levels should remain strong over the next few weeks, but could start to deteriorate once more of the harvest is complete and producers increase their deliveries. While old-crop canola supplies are large and new-crop production is starting to come off the fields, one canola […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin