Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 21, 2009 at 6:09 pm CDT

Starting with a boatload of Russian urea shipped into Montreal, Farmers of North America (FNA) has officially expanded its operations east to include Quebec farmers. FNA, a Saskatoon-based group that brokers deals for lower-cost imports of farm chemicals, fertilizer and other inputs and equipment on members’ behalf in Western Canada […]

May. 21, 2009 at 5:19 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. May 21 — Financial markets were on the defensive today and this started to set the trend […]

By Brian Wittal

May. 21, 2009 at 1:46 pm CDT

The Canadian Grain Commission is launching two voluntary programs for Canadian grain companies who wish to enhance their grain safety and identity-preserved quality management systems. The two programs — CGC HACCP and CIPRS + HACCP – are based on the food industry standard Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, which was […]

May. 21, 2009 at 1:41 am CDT

The grains research fund that benefits when Canada’s major railways make too much money hauling Prairie grain must give Canadian Pacific Railway a partial refund from 2007-08. The Western Grains Research Foundation, which on top of its checkoff funding invests railways’ Prairie grain revenue overages in research projects on farmers’ […]

May. 21, 2009 at 12:59 am CDT

Alberta researchers plan to head up a new project to take inventory of the genetic sequences by which plants produce valuable compounds. Doug Horner, the province’s minister of advanced education and technology, announced the project, called PhytoMetaSyn, on Wednesday at BIO International, a major biotechnology conference in Atlanta. PhytoMetaSyn, short […]