Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm CDT

Sales of greenhouse products in Canada declined 7.6 per cent from 2007 to $2.1 billion in 2008, as an increase in fruit and vegetable sales was more than offset by a drop in sales of flowers and plants, Statistics Canada reported Monday. Total greenhouse area amounted to 20.8 million square […]

By Statistics Canada

Jul. 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm CDT

Sales of greenhouse products in Canada declined 7.6 per cent from 2007 to $2.1 billion in 2008, as an increase in fruit and vegetable sales was more than offset by a drop in sales of flowers and plants, Statistics Canada reported Monday. Total greenhouse area amounted to 20.8 million square […]

By Statistics Canada

Jul. 27, 2009 at 4:05 pm CDT

Canadian farmers who buy Bayer CropScience’s LibertyLink canola or soybeans to plant next year will be paying more per bag of seed while paying less for Liberty herbicide. At the suggested retail prices for both InVigor hybrid canola and the group 10 glufosinate ammonium herbicide, the net result will be […]

Jul. 27, 2009 at 1:07 am CDT

Canada’s biggest grain handler plans to expand capacity at the eastern Saskatchewan town of Foam Lake by buying it from the No. 2 handler. Viterra announced Friday it will buy Richardson Pioneer’s elevator at Foam Lake, about 90 km northwest of Yorkton, for an undisclosed sum. Regina-based Viterra, which already […]

Jul. 27, 2009 at 12:24 am CDT

Greenpeace, the Council of Canadians and a number of groups have lined up to criticize what they call the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s “irresponsible rubber-stamping” of a new multiple-trait, genetically-modified corn. Seed and chemical firms Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences announced July 20 that CFIA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]