Insights and Stories on Crops

Throne Speech promises more CWB battles

Nov. 20, 2008 at 2:07 am CST

Predictions that divisive issues would be shelved for this session of Parliament went by the wayside Wednesday as the Conservative government pledged in its Throne Speech to press on with Prairie grain marketing reform. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech, delivered Wednesday in the House of Commons by Governor-General Michaelle Jean, […]

Soybean processor’s expansion plans on hold

Nov. 20, 2008 at 12:45 am CST

By Dwayne Klassen

N.L. plan to protect endangered herb delayed

Nov. 19, 2008 at 2:25 pm CST

Sask. farmers tapped for new policy teams

Nov. 18, 2008 at 5:54 pm CST

StatsCan seen confirming record canola crop

Nov. 18, 2008 at 11:01 am CST

By Alana Vannahme

Court rips Ont. law on ag worker unions

Nov. 18, 2008 at 2:18 am CST

A provincial appeal court has overruled an Ontario law excluding farm workers from collective bargaining. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which challenged the five-year-old Agricultural Employees Protection Act last May at the Ontario Court of Appeal, on Monday hailed the court’s ruling that the Act violates workers’ […]

Ont. winter wheat acres drop less than expected

Nov. 17, 2008 at 6:34 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Acres seeded to winter wheat in Ontario during the fall of 2008 are expected to be down from the record level seen during the fall of 2007, but will still be the third highest on record. “There were roughly 950,000 acres of land seeded to winter […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Labatt to shed U.S. business

Nov. 15, 2008 at 2:54 am CST

The owners of Canada’s storied Labatt Breweries will cut loose their Labatt Blue business in the U.S. to hitch up to the Budweiser Clydesdales. And Toronto-based Labatt has been pledged to continue to make Labatt Blue and Blue Light for the U.S. market for up to three more years on […]

Ag Growth Q3 up on handling gear demand

Nov. 15, 2008 at 2:52 am CST

A jump in production at its expanded auger factory in Manitoba and “strong demand” for grain handling and aeration equipment have punched up the third-quarter ledger for Ag Growth. The Winnipeg-based income fund, owner of several grain handling, storage and equipment firms in Canada and the U.S., on Friday posted […]

Drozd: Fertilizer prices breach line of support

Nov. 14, 2008 at 6:59 pm CST

The news is always the most bullish at the top. In the last month or two we have all heard the news about higher fertilizer prices. Let’s take a look at this market from both a technical and fundamental perspective now that world fertilizer prices are easing. You may not […]

By David Drozd