Insights and Stories on Crops

Man. to offer farmers training on GPS, GIS

Jan. 29, 2009 at 6:59 pm CST

Federal and provincial funds will allow Manitoba’s agriculture department to mount a series of precision agriculture workshops for farmers over the next two months. “Learning to use these systems can provide educational and economic benefits for future decisions on the farm,” provincial Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk said Wednesday, announcing the […]

Rogers Sugar Q1 profit drops

Jan. 29, 2009 at 6:48 pm CST

Wittal: South America’s weather unsettling for trade

Jan. 28, 2009 at 6:04 pm CST

By Brian Wittal

Analysts: Crop acres still up in air for 2009

Jan. 28, 2009 at 5:45 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Grain revenue helps CPR in down year

Jan. 28, 2009 at 2:13 am CST

Wittal: Crude oil drags on canola, beans

Jan. 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm CST

Jan. 27 — It was a negative day for most of the grains in the markets today. Oilseeds started off the day in an upward move, but that didn’t last long once crude oil started to trade lower and pulled beans and canola down with it. Continued weather forecasts calling […]

By Brian Wittal

AAFC predicts less wheat, more canola seeded

Jan. 27, 2009 at 5:59 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada expects the area seeded to spring and durum wheats this spring will be down significantly from levels seen a year ago. Record canola acreage was also forecast in the latest acreage outlook released this week by AAFC’s market analysis division. In its […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Atlantic ag ministers ink regional pact

Jan. 27, 2009 at 2:36 am CST

Agriculture ministers from Canada’s four Atlantic provinces have signed a memo of understanding for joint development of the region’s ag sector. Meeting Monday in Charlottetown, the ministers said in a release that their agreement calls for them to “increase areas of co-operation, share information and expertise and partner on mutually […]

Still no breakthrough in B.C. port labour talks

Jan. 26, 2009 at 6:39 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Companies that had hoped for an end to uncertainty caused by the ongoing threat of a strike at B.C.’s busiest ports saw their hopes frustrated again as another weekend came and went without news of a collective agreement for roughly 450 dock and ship workers employed […]

By Alana Vannahme

Wittal: Watch for loonie’s reaction to budget

Jan. 26, 2009 at 6:21 pm CST

Jan. 26 — It was another mixed day on the markets. Corn is up two to four cents a bushel, beans are even to up three cents a bushel, wheat is up nine to 13 cents a bushel, canola is even to down $1 per tonne and barley is down […]

By Brian Wittal