Insights and Stories on Crops

Feb. 17, 2009 at 7:16 pm CST

Feb. 17 — Well, the long weekend didn’t improve the mood of the markets, that’s for sure. Financial markets were down hard today and that, along with the U.S. dollar rising sharply and crude falling, sent grain markets into a tailspin. This was primarily due to speculators liquidating contracts for […]

By Brian Wittal

Feb. 17, 2009 at 7:03 pm CST

Officials managing the St. Lawrence Seaway have scheduled its spring reopening to navigation over a week later than in recent years, on March 31. Both the Montreal-Lake Ontario segment of the seaway and the Welland Canal segment are scheduled to open at 8 a.m. that day, the St. Lawrence Seaway […]

Feb. 17, 2009 at 6:32 pm CST

A Nova Scotia firm making apple pies for sale in both Canada and the U.S. has picked up a loan guarantee from the province for $1.5 million in expansion funding. Apple Valley Foods of Kentville gets this guarantee “to support the company with necessary resources to ensure future growth,” the […]

Feb. 17, 2009 at 4:39 am CST

The initial payments to Prairie farmers for their 2008-09 wheat, durum and malting barley through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) have been raised. The CWB announced Monday it had picked up approval from the federal government, which guarantees CWB initial payments, for an upward adjustment. The increase in initials for […]

Feb. 17, 2009 at 3:46 am CST

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has named the CEO of an inland grain terminal in his constituency to the board of Farm Credit Canada. Jason Skinner, the CEO of North West Terminal at Unity, Sask., about 90 km southwest of North Battleford, was named Monday to a three-year term on […]