Insights and Stories on Crops

Nov. 4, 2008 at 6:07 pm CST

Vancouver research and development company Burcon NutraScience has isolated a new soy protein for use in the food and beverage market. The new isolate, which the company has dubbed Clarisoy, is 100 per cent soluble and is transparent in acidic solutions, allowing it to be used at pH down to […]

Nov. 3, 2008 at 7:15 pm CST

Cargill Ltd. has signed a deal to take full ownership of Terminal 22, a farmer-owned inland grain terminal in southeastern Saskatchewan. An offer from the Canadian wing of the U.S. grain and agri-food giant was accepted by a “large majority” of the 650 farmer members of T22 Holdings Ltd. at […]

Nov. 3, 2008 at 6:33 pm CST

Chemical firm Chemtura Canada, maker of the fungicide seed treatment Vitaflo 280, has signed separate new marketing agreements for the product in Western and Eastern Canada. Ag input distributor UAP Canada will handle sales and marketing for the product in Western Canada, while seed treatment supply firm Norac Concepts will […]

Nov. 3, 2008 at 3:20 pm CST

Short line company Quebec Railway Corp. (QRC) has announced it will sell CN three rail lines and its stake in a rail-freight ferry operation in Eastern Canada. CN will pay $49.8 million for the lines and ferry business, having sold the rail lines to QRC in the first place, in […]

Nov. 2, 2008 at 5:02 am CST

Quebec’s federation of ag co-operatives, La Coop federee, has signed a deal to buy Agronomy Co. of Canada from U.S. ag co-ops Land O’Lakes and CHS for an undisclosed sum. Agronomy Co.’s holdings include Wellburn Agromart Ltd., a crop inputs and grain company at Wellburn, Ont., and ownership stakes in […]