Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 14, 2009 at 12:23 am CDT

Chemical manufacturer Chemtura Canada has picked up registration for a “novel” fungicidal seed treatment for Eastern Canada’s cereal growers. Rancona Apex, which will be distributed in the East by Norac Concepts and Engage Agro, marks a “step change” for the cereals seed treatment market, according to Norac’s Bob Chyc. The […]

May. 13, 2009 at 5:01 pm CDT

Guelph crop protection firm Norac Concepts has picked up registration for Enhance, a new non-ionic spray adjuvant that it says will surpass voluntary federal standards for pest control chemistries. The product, an 80 per cent mixture of triglyceride ethoxylate 10 POE, is meant to improve efficacy of approved pesticides ranging […]

May. 13, 2009 at 4:13 pm CDT

Botaneco Specialty Ingredients, a personal care product manufacturer using oil from its own safflower lines, aims to put more Canadian acres into safflower as it expands capacity at its Calgary plant. To that end the company, a subsidiary of Calgary-based SemBioSys Genetics, has been granted a repayable contribution of $3.63 […]

May. 13, 2009 at 3:48 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The area seeded to barley by producers in Western Canada may actually be higher than anticipated despite cash bids for the commodity remaining depressed. “While it’s hard to conceive that barley area will increase given the poor cash bids for the commodity and the likelihood those […]

By Dwayne Klassen

May. 13, 2009 at 3:15 pm CDT

British Columbia’s agriculture minister and official opposition ag critic appear to have held their ridings as the province’s Liberal government hung onto majority status in Tuesday’s election. Premier Gordon Campbell’s Liberals won 49 of 85 seats, while the NDP, led by Carole James, earned 36. The two parties each won […]