Insights and Stories on Crops

CN completes Chicago-area shortline deal

Feb. 2, 2009 at 2:40 am CST

Canadian National’s (CN) plans to streamline its U.S. traffic are underway with the completion of its bid to buy the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Co., a Chicago-area shortline, from U.S. Steel. The deal, worth US$300 million for the shortline’s assets alone, is expected to allow CN to “improve the […]

Dover shareholders accept grain firm’s bid

Feb. 2, 2009 at 2:19 am CST

Wittal: Profit-taking pressures wheat

Jan. 31, 2009 at 5:45 am CST

By Brian Wittal

CWB kicks off feed barley Pool B

Jan. 30, 2009 at 7:34 pm CST

Sask. to restore rural ag extension offices

Jan. 30, 2009 at 4:52 am CST

CWB to shun barley pool for CashPlus

Jan. 30, 2009 at 4:21 am CST

The Canadian Wheat Board won’t select malting barley through its pool for any more new bulk export sales this year, but will rely instead on cash purchases. This strategy is meant to help protect relatively high current pooled values for farmers’ designated barley, given recent international market price declines, the […]

Grain growers rip Ottawa’s “flexibility” plan

Jan. 30, 2009 at 3:22 am CST

A Quebec and Ontario grain growers’ group says the federal government’s proposed “flexibility” plan for farmers won’t amount to much without a business risk management component. The Ontario-Quebec Grain Farmers’ Coalition on Thursday reacted to Tuesday’s federal budget by saying it’s “disappointed that (Ottawa) intends to launch a flawed program […]

Feds back B.C. wild mushroom processing

Jan. 30, 2009 at 2:12 am CST

A drying system typically used in blueberry processing will be adapted to dry wild chanterelle mushrooms harvested in British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands. John Duncan, a Vancouver Island MP and parliamentary secretary for Indian affairs, on Thursday announced $22,605 for the Haida Gwaii Local Foods Processing Co-operative to adapt and […]

CWB backs organic sector development

Jan. 30, 2009 at 1:49 am CST

Eight new research and knowledge-sharing projects on organic grain production will get a financial boost from the Canadian Wheat Board. Western Canada’s single-desk wheat and barley marketing agency on Wednesday announced a new round of funding worth $200,000 in 2009 through its Organic Sector Market Development Initiative (OSMDI). Hailing the […]

Wittal: Traders play it safe

Jan. 29, 2009 at 7:06 pm CST

Jan. 29 — It was another off day, with all grains ending up negative. Corn is down two to three cents a bushel, beans are down three to 13 cents a bushel, wheat is down 16 to 18 cents a bushel, canola is down $2 to $3 a tonne and […]

By Brian Wittal