Insights and Stories on Crops

Commercial demand, spillover support lift flax

Jun. 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm CDT

Flax prices in Western Canada have been pushed higher over the past month by commercial demand and spillover support from strength in outside oilseed markets. “Prices seemed to have taken a quick little spike upwards and now they’re sitting there,” said Paul Martens, head of operations for Prairie Flax Products […]

Ocean Spray’s N.B. cranberry bog site approved

Jun. 3, 2009 at 1:14 am CDT

Bacteria-based fungicide cleared for canola, pulses

Jun. 3, 2009 at 12:52 am CDT

Okanagan group weighs year-round produce market

Jun. 2, 2009 at 11:58 pm CDT

Frost hits Alta. crops, cold to hit Sask., Man.

Jun. 2, 2009 at 6:03 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Wittal: Grain markets fend off profit-taking

Jun. 2, 2009 at 5:38 pm CDT

Our online grain markets columnist Brian Wittal welcomes feedback and information on market conditions in your area, such as current offering prices, basis levels, trucking premiums and special crops contracts. Contact Brian today. June 2 — Financial markets were quiet today with limited activity but at least they were able […]

By Brian Wittal

Viterra defends ABB merger, cites gains for farmers

Jun. 2, 2009 at 4:25 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Grain handler Viterra’s proposed merger with ABB Grain has “compelling benefits” for producers in Australia and Canada, a Viterra spokesperson said last week in response to charges from an Australian farm group that the bid is not in producers’ best interests. The South Australian Farmers Federation […]

By Alana Vannahme

Straw-based ethanol eyed for Sask. mill site

Jun. 2, 2009 at 2:08 am CDT

A shuttered pulp mill at Prince Albert, Sask. could be the new site for a facility to make cellulosic ethanol from farmers’ cereal straw. Saskatchewan’s provincial government on Monday inked a letter of intent with Domtar, owner of the pulp mill site, and Iogen, an Ottawa enzyme manufacturer, for the […]

Assail approved in stone fruit crops

Jun. 2, 2009 at 12:11 am CDT

Growers of peaches, nectarines, plums, sweet or tart cherries, plumcots, prunes and apricots are expected to gain from an expanded label for Assail insecticide. Better known among potato growers as a control for Colorado potato beetles and aphids, DuPont Canada’s group 4 acetamiprid product Assail 70 WP has previously been […]

Second-grader wins “I (heart) Greenbelt” contest

Jun. 1, 2009 at 11:46 pm CDT

Artwork from a west Toronto second-grader has won a contest for the design of Ontario’s new “I (heart) Greenbelt” awards. The entry from Esha Patel, a student at Highfield Junior School, won the online votes of Ontarians among four finalists chosen from hundreds of entries in a provincial contest. The […]

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