Insights and Stories on Crops

Growmark buys out Ont. ag input co-ops

Mar. 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm CDT

Two of the three ag retail co-ops that made up the FS Partners chain in southwestern and central Ontario are selling their businesses to their third partner. Inland Co-operative Inc. and Waterloo-Oxford Co-operative Inc., which together with regional co-operative Growmark operate 20 FS Partners branches, both announced Wednesday their members […]

Squamish Nation producing organic hothouse herbs

Mar. 27, 2009 at 5:34 pm CDT

Manitoba crop choices tied to flood timing

Mar. 27, 2009 at 4:55 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Wittal: Trade waiting for USDA report

Mar. 27, 2009 at 4:07 pm CDT

By Brian Wittal

New-crop wheat PROs rise with Red River

Mar. 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm CDT

Project to bind Prairie First Nations’ farmland

Mar. 27, 2009 at 4:30 am CDT

A Toronto investment firm will put up millions to consolidate farmland belonging to First Nations in Saskatchewan and Alberta as a “large-scale, fully-integrated corporate farming entity.” The farming company, to be named One Earth Farms, would use the $27.5 million investment from Sprott Resource Corp. to “establish operations, fund working […]

Bayer CropScience Canada names new CEO

Mar. 26, 2009 at 6:27 pm CDT

Kamel Beliazi, currently the head of Bayer CropScience in Mexico, moves north to Calgary this summer to become president and CEO of Bayer CropScience Canada. Starting July 1, Beliazi takes over from Hartmut van Lengerich, who will now lead a global crop strategy unit focused on cereals, oilseeds and sugar […]

Wittal: Feed barley futures jump

Mar. 26, 2009 at 5:20 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. March 26 — Financial markets were down most of the day but did end up at the […]

By Brian Wittal

CGC security to remain pending other ideas: Ritz

Mar. 26, 2009 at 3:06 am CDT

Farmers who fear losing the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) security program, which protects against payment defaults on delivered grain, won’t have to do without the program until it’s replaced by other options. According to Thursday’s Manitoba Co-operator, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said so to Keystone Agricultural Producers vice-president Rob Brunel […]

Wittal: Spring and speculation have sprung

Mar. 25, 2009 at 5:20 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. March 25 — Financial markets were down most of the day, but they did end up at […]

By Brian Wittal