Insights and Stories on Crops

Viterra adds Pursuit-type herbicide to lineup

Apr. 8, 2009 at 6:02 pm CDT

Viterra has added a Group 2 broadleaf and grassy weed product for field pea, bean and alfalfa crops to its new roster of company-branded crop protection products. Pulse Star contains the Group 2 active ingredient imazethapyr, the same as the Pursuit brand marketed by BASF, which also manufactures Pulse Star […]

Wittal: USDA reports seen neutral to bullish

Apr. 8, 2009 at 5:40 pm CDT

By Brian Wittal

Wittal: Bullish financial markets pressure grains

Apr. 7, 2009 at 5:51 pm CDT

By Brian Wittal

B.C. departments gang up on invasive plants

Apr. 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm CDT

Viterra launches own grassy weed killer

Apr. 7, 2009 at 5:13 pm CDT

Dreyfus/Mitsui crush plant still on schedule

Apr. 7, 2009 at 4:53 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The construction of an 850,000-tonne-per-year canola processor by Louis Dreyfus Canada and Mitsui Canada is on target for its Sept. 1, 2009 startup, joint venture LDM Foods confirmed. The facility, once completed, will produce roughly 500,000 tonnes of meal and 350,000 tonnes of canola oil per […]

By Dwayne Klassen

ADM, B.C. fuel firm eye biodiesel plant

Apr. 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm CDT

Archer Daniels Midland and Canadian Bioenergy Corp. are studying a possible joint-venture canola biodiesel facility at ADM’s Lloydminister, Alta. crush plant. ADM, the Illinois-based multinational ag processing firm, and Vancouver-based Canadian Bioenergy said in a release Tuesday that they have entered negotiations on such a joint venture. The two firms […]

By Dave Bedard

Get ready for restructuring at OAC, dean says

Apr. 7, 2009 at 2:27 pm CDT

Restructuring, curriculum reform and a general “evolution” must take place at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College to deal with its current cash crunch, OAC’s dean warns. In a statement Tuesday on OAC’s website, Robert Gordon says that in many ways, none of the challenges the college has faced […]

Agrium seeks CF shareholders’ support

Apr. 7, 2009 at 1:48 am CDT

Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium is urging the shareholders of U.S. fertilizer firm CF Industries to show support for Agrium’s hostile takeover bid by not voting for CF’s proposed new directors. Chicago-based CF Industries, whose holdings include a major nitrogen fertilizer plant at Medicine Hat, Alta., has so far urged its […]

CWB needs deliveries through spring toward targets

Apr. 6, 2009 at 6:05 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is actively encouraging farmers to continue delivering high-quality wheat and durum through April and May in order to help meet sales commitments, despite the fact that spring is a time when farmers usually concentrate on seeding and fieldwork instead of moving […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin