Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 24, 2009 at 2:16 am CDT

The new association for Ontario’s wheat, corn and soybean growers will have the executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute, Barry Senft, as its first CEO. Senft, a former chief commissioner at the Canadian Grain Commission (1997-2002) and second vice-president of what was then Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (1993-97), is […]

May. 24, 2009 at 1:50 am CDT

A project to contribute to Ontario’s power grid using electricity from artificially digesting vegetable waste has picked up a contribution from Ottawa. The federal government said Friday it will put up a repayable contribution of up to $1.6 million for Seacliff Energy to build a cogeneration facility using vegetable waste, […]

May. 24, 2009 at 1:15 am CDT

A Charlottetown research facility will get new equipment to look more closely at the levels of nutraceutical compounds in assorted crops. The federal government on Friday pledged $750,000 for a nuclear magentic resonance (NMR) spectrometer for use by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the University of Prince Edward Island’s laboratory […]

May. 23, 2009 at 2:18 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Cash bids for both old- and new-crop canola contracts have strengthened significantly over the past week and while there appears to have been a downturn in nearby demand, the fundamentals continue to suggest further upward price action is in the cards. “The basis for canola has […]

By Dwayne Klassen

May. 23, 2009 at 2:05 am CDT

Ontario farm funding agency Agricorp says its online acreage reporting system has gone live for farmers’ use. The agency said in a statement Friday that it now has online acreage reporting available for “most spring-seeded grain and oilseed crops” from May 15 to June 30. The system is expected to […]