Insights and Stories on Crops

Nov. 21, 2008 at 2:19 am CST

A weaker Canadian dollar and a “dramatic drop” in ocean freight rates are supporting the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlook (PRO) for wheat, in the face of a record world wheat crop. Milling wheat values rose $5 per tonne in the November 2008-09 PROs, released Thursday. For example, […]

Nov. 21, 2008 at 1:22 am CST

New incentives to take “marginal” farmland out of production, more support for biofuels and the possible development of an oilseed sector are now on Prince Edward Island’s to-do list. The province on Thursday announced plans to move on those points and others as it released both its energy strategy and […]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 4:54 pm CST

The results of a value-for-money audit of Ontario’s farm funding agency have spurred the province to promise improved service and to develop a strategy to get there. “Ontario farmers will see improvements in the service they receive from Agricorp, including quicker turnaround times on AgriStability program applications and faster response […]

Nov. 20, 2008 at 4:17 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Soybean yields in Ontario are believed to be the second highest on record due to good moisture and timely heat during the growing season. “Average soybean yields in the province during 2008 were in the 43.0 bushel an acre range,” said Horst Bohner, a soybean specialist […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Nov. 20, 2008 at 10:43 am CST

A new analysis from a Toronto think tank blasting the Canadian Wheat Board for three years of “poor financial returns for farmers,” quickly drew return fire from the CWB over the report’s “false assumptions and oversimplified numbers.” The C.D. Howe Institute on Thursday released what it calls an “e-brief” titled […]