Insights and Stories on Crops

Rain shuts down Sask., Man. harvests

Oct. 14, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

Rain and, in some regions, snow over the Thanksgiving weekend have shut the door on attempts to finish harvests in much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the two provinces’ ag departments reported Tuesday. Northeastern Saskatchewan’s harvest was 99 per cent complete, and the province’s northwest was furthest behind at 91 per […]

Alta. harvest essentialy complete: AARD

Oct. 14, 2008 at 1:30 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Union rips PotashCorp for letter to strikers

Oct. 14, 2008 at 1:25 pm CDT

Ont. tobacco growers take “dreadful” deal

Oct. 14, 2008 at 12:47 pm CDT

Seaway Corp., workers reach tentative deal

Oct. 14, 2008 at 11:42 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

ICE to delist feed wheat Thursday

Oct. 14, 2008 at 11:27 am CDT

Having reviewed its alternatives, ICE Futures Canada has announced it will delist its feed wheat contract effective Thursday, the last delivery day of the October 2008 contract. The Winnipeg commodity exchange had pulled its December 2008 and subsequent feed wheat futures contract months from trading in May, pending a review […]

B.C. farm’s workers vote to unionize

Oct. 10, 2008 at 6:55 pm CDT

A controversial union certification vote at an Abbotsford, B.C. fruit and vegetable farm has ended with its workers unionized. Workers at Floralia Plant Growers Ltd., who are in Canada under the federal government’s seasonal agricultural workers program (SAWP), voted Sept. 15 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) […]

Ont. exempts more farmland from transfer tax

Oct. 10, 2008 at 6:32 pm CDT

Transfers of Ontario farmland from a family farm corporation to one or more family members are now exempt from the province’s land transfer tax. Finance Minister Dwight Duncan announced the expanded exemption to the provincial land transfer tax (LTT) on Friday. “This tax-relief measure will help families pass on the […]

Sask. canola board tightens membership rules

Oct. 10, 2008 at 6:22 pm CDT

Saskatchewan canola growers who want to vote or run for elected office with the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission will have to meet tighter requirements to do so. SCDC board chairman Kelvin Meadows on Friday announced the provincial government has approved changes to the Canola Development Plan Regulations on matters of […]

Global economic turmoil to challenge Prairie farmers

Oct. 10, 2008 at 6:06 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Western Canadian farmers who have been trying to keep their heads above water over the past couple of years are going to find it even more challenging to do so, given the ongoing turmoil of the global economy. “The total effect of the world economic collapse […]

By Dwayne Klassen