Insights and Stories on Crops

Feb. 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm CST

Feb. 12 — Another nondescript trading day, with no real news to push markets either way. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s weekly export numbers were favourable, which helped to support grains at these current levels, but not enough to push markets upward. Crude was off hard again and that pushed […]

By Brian Wittal

Feb. 12, 2009 at 2:59 am CST

Payments from Canada’s two major railways to the Western Grains Research Foundation have been made but will now sit in trust, pending the outcome of the railways’ bid to get at least some of that cash back. While it’s not new for the railways to file court appeals of the […]

Feb. 12, 2009 at 2:32 am CST

Despite four months of “unprecedented” shifts in nitrogen and phosphate prices, fertilizer giant Agrium has tripled its previous record for annual earnings. And the company predicts that the recent dip in fertilizer demand will ultimately show up in reduced yields, leading to increases in both crop prices and demand for […]

Feb. 12, 2009 at 12:26 am CST

Alberta forage growers could pick up a “premium market” for red clover if an Edmonton natural health firm’s osteoporosis treatment makes it to the commercial stage. SinoVeda Canada, owned by former University of Alberta pharmaceutical sciences professor, Dr. Yun K. Tam, and his wife Dr. Nuzhat Tam-Zaman, has picked up […]

Feb. 11, 2009 at 7:45 pm CST

Returns to Prairie farmers through the Canadian Wheat Board were up nearly 57 per cent in 2007-08 to a record $7.2 billion, the CWB reported Wednesday. Total pooled revenue was up 47 per cent for wheat and up 94 per cent for both durum and designated barley, the CWB said […]