Insights and Stories on Crops

Jan. 24, 2009 at 1:25 am CST

A project to develop soundproofing and car and furniture parts from hemp, flax and forest fibre will be a beneficiary of Alberta’s share from the federal Community Development Trust. The provincial government announced Friday it would invest $10 million from the CDT in three projects to develop “environmentally friendly products […]

Jan. 23, 2009 at 7:55 pm CST

This was a very mixed and choppy trading day for all grains. They started down in the morning, tried to rebound, then faded away into the close. Some ended up for the day and others were down. Corn is up two to three cents a bushel, beans are down three […]

By Brian Wittal

Jan. 23, 2009 at 7:37 pm CST

(Revised) — One of the massive stacks of square bales that have lined the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway at Elie, Man. for years is burning and smouldering in what RCMP call a suspicious fire. The long rows of large bales are almost all that’s left of several companies’ […]

Jan. 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Farmers in Western Canada are less than enthusiastic about early new-crop malting barley prices being floated in Western Canada. Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. at Alix, Alta. had been offering between $4.25 and $4.50 (farm gate) for 2009-10 malting barley but those prices were met with minimal […]

By Alana Vannahme

Jan. 23, 2009 at 1:50 am CST

The world’s largest potash player by capacity has unsurprisingly come out of fiscal 2008 with record results and predicts demand will likely climb again come spring. Saskatoon-based PotashCorp on Thursday logged a record fourth-quarter profit of $788 million on $1.87 billion in sales (all figures US$) and a profit of […]