Insights and Stories on Crops

Pakistan in canola market after late start

Mar. 25, 2009 at 4:45 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Pakistan has been in the market for Canadian canola recently, and is expected to end up taking a few more cargoes than it did the previous year. That’s despite the fact that the country has been slow making purchases this year, according to a canola exporter. […]

Lassonde to buy Apple Valley

Mar. 25, 2009 at 4:19 pm CDT

CFIA funds hort growers for food safety tools

Mar. 25, 2009 at 12:24 am CDT

Viterra joins winter wheat expansion campaign

Mar. 25, 2009 at 12:07 am CDT

Wittal: Barley’s rally from road bans short-lived

Mar. 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Brian Wittal

PotashCorp offers non-binding “say on pay”

Mar. 24, 2009 at 3:47 pm CDT

The world’s biggest fertilizer firm will offer its shareholders a non-binding “advisory vote” on the size of its executives’ pay packets. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) said it’s among the first Canadian companies to “voluntarily” adopt such an advisory vote, known in the industry as “say on pay,” starting at […]

Agrium takeover target ups the ante

Mar. 24, 2009 at 3:32 pm CDT

U.S. fertilizer firm CF Industries, the subject of a hostile takeover bid by fertilizer and ag retail giant Agrium, has raised its bid for its own takeover target, Iowa-based Terra Industries. Chicago-based CF on Monday boosted its unsolicited bid for Terra to an all-stock offer worth US$30.50 per Terra share. […]

Sask. researchers eye wheat DNA test

Mar. 24, 2009 at 2:53 pm CDT

A Saskatoon research lab plans to see if it can make a prototype rapid wheat DNA test roadworthy for grain industry use by this fall. SRC GenServe Laboratories, operated by the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), has signed an agreement with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to see if the technology, developed […]

Small jump in Ont. soybean acres forecast

Mar. 24, 2009 at 12:56 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Acres to be seeded to soybeans in Ontario this spring should be up from the year-ago level, but there are several factors that could result in plantings being larger than anticipated. “There is still a lot of indecision among producers in Ontario in terms of what […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Ont. oat, barley industry group joins GGC

Mar. 24, 2009 at 12:56 am CDT

An industry group representing oat and barley growers, processors and marketers in Ontario has joined the Grain Growers of Canada. The Oat and Barley Council of Ontario (OBCO), headquartered at Grimsby, just east of Hamilton, includes farmer members who “bring experience to our organization on the issues facing all areas […]

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