Insights and Stories on Crops

Jun. 16, 2009 at 10:38 pm CDT

June 16 — Financial markets continue to be in a defensive mode as they again closed with triple-digit losses. The U.S. dollar fell back four-tenths of a cent and the Canadian dollar also fell slightly. Hopes for a turnaround Tuesday did not materialize, which then prompted funds to continue to […]

By Brian Wittal

Jun. 16, 2009 at 3:28 pm CDT

California-based grocery chain Safeway will roll out new promotions of locally grown products in its Western Canada stores at the same time as a similar promotion throughout its U.S. outlets. “Nearly a third of Safeway’s produce comes from local sources. In California, that number is even greater, roughly 45 per […]

Jun. 16, 2009 at 2:49 pm CDT

A former Saskatchewan agriculture minister who’s now his party’s leader has named himself the party’s critic on agriculture issues. Dwain Lingenfelter, who served a relatively short stint as agriculture minister (1999-2000) while serving as deputy premier (1995-2000) in Roy Romanow’s NDP government, on Tuesday appointed himself as critic for agriculture, […]

Jun. 16, 2009 at 1:22 am CDT

Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease commonly linked to barley and wheat, is “indeed a problem” in Canada’s commercial oat fields, a new study shows. “You don’t see it in oats as you do in barley or wheat, where the disease is quite obvious in-season,” plant pathologist Andy Tekauz said […]

Jun. 16, 2009 at 12:51 am CDT

Visitors to the Western Canada Farm Progress Show starting Wednesday in Regina “will not notice any disruption” to the event as crews demolish a historic facility destroyed by fire at the site. Evraz Place, formerly known as Regina Exhibition Park, said Monday that crews were continuing their cleanup work after […]