Insights and Stories on Crops

N.S. agri-food firms granted funding

Dec. 23, 2008 at 4:24 am CST

Four Nova Scotia agri-food companies will get funding to help upgrade their production lines and equipment and develop their businesses to the next level. The provincial government on Monday announced disbursements from its Strategic Infrastructure Investment Fund, a four-year program that so far has distributed over $3.2 million of its […]

Credit crunch stalls P.E.I. call for wind power

Dec. 23, 2008 at 2:49 am CST

B.C. port strike still looms after talks tank

Dec. 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm CST

By Alana Vannahme

ADQ names replacement ag critic

Dec. 22, 2008 at 7:29 pm CST

Farms suspected to spur rivers’ carbon output

Dec. 22, 2008 at 7:05 pm CST

Ex-Cargill chief to chair Man. inland port

Dec. 22, 2008 at 6:38 pm CST

The retired chief of the Canadian arm of agrifood giant Cargill will chair the board of directors for Manitoba’s inland port initiative. Kerry Hawkins was announced Monday as the chairman of CentrePort Canada, a 20,000-acre project devoted to export-oriented economic development in the neighbourhood of Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International […]

Union Securities names new brass

Dec. 22, 2008 at 5:27 am CST

Commodity futures and options brokerage Union Securities has named a new CEO, president and executive committee. Union Securities, an investment dealership headquartered in Vancouver with 16 other offices across Canada and a British office in London, last week named John MacPhail as its new CEO and Arden Cornford as its […]

Canola demand heading for record

Dec. 22, 2008 at 4:54 am CST

(Resource News International) — Canada’s record large canola crop will need to be met by equally large demand in order to keep carry-out supplies from climbing too high in the upcoming year, according to industry sources who were anticipating record demand from both domestic crushers and from export customers. Canadian […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Possible strike looms over West Coast ports

Dec. 22, 2008 at 4:47 am CST

(Resource News International) — Workers at Canada’s West Coast ports have threatened to ring in the new year with a strike that could bring activity at the country’s busiest ports grinding to a halt. According to reports, workers at ports in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Prince Rupert […]