Insights and Stories on Crops

Mar. 6, 2009 at 3:21 am CST

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 5 — We’re back on the roller coaster: up yesterday, down today, who knows tomorrow? Financial […]

By Brian Wittal

Mar. 5, 2009 at 5:44 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Improving agronomics and economics are making specialty high oleic canola varieties (also known as high stability, omega-9, or low linoleic) a more favourable choice for western Canadian farmers, according to industry participants who expected to see a continued increase in acres going into the varieties in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Mar. 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm CST

A Calgary company planning to use barley and pea crops to make ethanol in northeastern Saskatchewan now plans to add a second facility making wood-waste ethanol, in part to fire the first plant. Prairie Green Renewable Energy in 2007 announced plans to build a 113 million-litre-per-year barley- and pea-based ethanol […]

Mar. 5, 2009 at 3:39 pm CST

The Japanese are regarded as the true pioneers of market technical analysis. They began trading forward rice contracts (futures) in 1654 and over the next three centuries have developed many sophisticated ways to analyze the markets. One Japanese method of charting is called candlestick because the individual lines resemble candles. […]

By David Drozd

Mar. 5, 2009 at 3:20 pm CST

A new soy protein product isolated by a Vancouver research and development firm has a number of major food, beverage and nutrition companies evaluating its possible use. Burcon NutraScience reported Wednesday that it’s signed material transfer and non-disclosure agreements with a number of globally recognized food, beverage and nutritional product […]