Insights and Stories on Crops

Dec. 15, 2008 at 6:58 pm CST

Three farmers in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac St. Jean region will pay $200 per acre for growing Roundup Ready canola without a license, Monsanto Canada reports. Monsanto, well known for its zealous defense of patents on Roundup Ready herbicide-tolerant seed genetics, said in a release Monday that it spotted the patent breaches […]

Dec. 15, 2008 at 6:22 pm CST

A bit of the world’s biodiesel may eventually come from Juan Valdez rather than the Exxon Valdez if a pilot project at the University of Nevada at Reno pans out as planned. Manoranjan Misra, a professor in the university’s department of chemical and materials engineering, is leading a team that […]

By Dave Bedard

Dec. 15, 2008 at 11:02 am CST

Farmers have until Dec. 19 to sign up for the Canadian Wheat Board’s special one-time delivery program for Pelissier, a Canadian Western Amber Durum (CWAD) wheat de-registered Aug. 1, 2007. The program is designed to encourage farmers to clean out all stocks of the variety. Upon delivery farmers will be […]

By Allan Dawson

Dec. 13, 2008 at 4:45 am CST

Seed potatoes from Alberta may soon be allowed into the U.S. if Canadian officials can prove the province is clear of potato cyst nematode (PCN). The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Friday that the Canada-U.S. Potato Committee has put forward a resolution as the basis for the U.S. Department […]

Dec. 13, 2008 at 4:41 am CST

Canada’s biggest mushroom producer has asked for and received creditor protection until Jan. 9 in a bid to restructure its business. Rol-land Farms, based at Blenheim, Ont., about 100 km east of Windsor, was also the operation at the centre of a court ruling last month quashing Ontario’s ban on […]