Insights and Stories on Crops

Dec. 8, 2008 at 7:06 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Reduced demand in Canada for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about supply shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet, on the other side of the coin, there is the […]

By Alana Vannahme

Dec. 8, 2008 at 6:53 pm CST

British Columbia’s environment ministry has launched plans to tighten limits on emissions from wood-fired agricultural boilers, such as those used by the greenhouse industry. While such boilers are a low-carbon form of renewable energy, “they are also a source of particulate matter,” Environment Minister Barry Penner said in a release […]

Dec. 8, 2008 at 6:28 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Western Canadian winter wheat may be down on the year, but farmers still managed to plant more winter wheat this fall than had been expected, said an official with Winter Cereals Canada. Western Canadian farmers planted 1.245 million acres of winter wheat this fall for harvest […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 8, 2008 at 2:31 am CST

Prairie farmers have voted to keep the same level of support and opposition for the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk at its board table. Accounting firm Meyers Norris Penny (MNP) announced the results Sunday from its counting of 16,384 eligible ballots for director elections in the board’s five even-numbered […]

Dec. 6, 2008 at 9:56 am CST

Winnipeg grain and agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has announced a deal to buy up the 75 per cent of flour miller Dover Industries that it doesn’t already own. The agreement, announced Friday, would give Dover shareholders $19.25 in cash per share, worth a total of about $99 million, a […]