Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 11, 2009 at 12:37 am CDT

An Ontario produce grower donating 500,000 pounds of greenhouse bell peppers to a Hamilton food bank predicts there’d be more donors where he came from if tax credits were available to support the work involved. Peter Quiring, president of Leamington-based Nature Fresh Farms, on Friday announced the donation of peppers […]

Jul. 10, 2009 at 11:53 pm CDT

Over half of a $4 million economic development package for Newfoundland’s central region will go toward plans for a major expansion in cranberries. The Newfoundland and Labrador government on Friday pledged $2.22 million for the Town of Grand Falls-Windsor to start “pre-commercial expansion” of the local cranberry industry. That expansion […]

Jul. 10, 2009 at 5:57 pm CDT

Funeral services will be held July 11 for Gus VanKampen, the founder of one of the largest and best-known greenhouse operations on Prince Edward Island. VanKampen died in Charlottetown Wednesday at age 78. According to the Charlottetown Guardian, VanKampen brought a greenhouse background from Holland to Canada in 1953 and […]

Jul. 10, 2009 at 5:31 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Crush margins for canola in Western Canada have been losing ground and it appears the downward trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. “Based on the way I calculate margins, the crush for the spot month as of Friday was in the $84 per […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Jul. 10, 2009 at 5:21 pm CDT

Planned changes to Canada’s seed variety registration system are going ahead to make what the government calls a “more flexible” system, but what critics call a slippery slope to let seed companies ram unproven varieties through to market. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said in a release Thursday that the […]