Insights and Stories on Crops

B.C. labour board rejects union’s claim at farm

Oct. 9, 2008 at 6:16 pm CDT

The United Food and Commercial Workers’ union won’t get automatic certification at an Abbotsford, B.C. fruit and vegetable farm where it claimed the “most vocal” workers were shipped home before a vote could be held. The British Columbia Labour Relations Board, which conducted a union certification vote for UFCW Local […]

Ag job losses hit N.S., P.E.I. communities: report

Oct. 9, 2008 at 5:03 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Unchecked central Ont. elk ruining crops: OFA

Oct. 9, 2008 at 4:23 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Food wins food-vs.-fuel debate on Prairies: CWB

Oct. 9, 2008 at 4:05 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CWB opens CWRS fusarium program

Oct. 8, 2008 at 11:55 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.S. wind atlas goes online

Oct. 8, 2008 at 11:29 pm CDT

Nova Scotia property owners considering wind turbines for their land can use a new online wind atlas to rate their site’s potential. Researchers from Universite de Moncton and the applied geomatics research group at Nova Scotia Community College developed the wind data last year. Since then, staff in the research […]

By FBC staff

N.L. to fund cranberry acreage development

Oct. 8, 2008 at 6:22 pm CDT

Aiming to defray some of the high start-up costs of cranberry production, Newfoundland and Labrador’s government is taking applications for funding under a new cranberry industry development program. The program, announced in the province’s 2008 budget, is funded up to $2.95 million for 2008-09, the government said in a release […]

By FBC staff

U.S. FDA approval eyed for canola proteins

Oct. 7, 2008 at 5:30 pm CDT

A Canadian food research and development firm says it’s confirmed that its two canola protein isolates will meet U.S. safety standards as food ingredients — and will now see if U.S. regulators agree. Burcon NutraScience, based in Vancouver with lab and technical facilities in Winnipeg, announced Tuesday that it has […]

By FBC staff

St. Lawrence strike could hit grain prices: CWB

Oct. 7, 2008 at 4:24 pm CDT

Grain prices could be pressured if a strike by unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway comes to pass, the Canadian Wheat Board warns. The CWB and “other key stakeholders” in the Prairie grain industry are urging the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. and operations, maintenance and clerical staff, represented […]

By FBC staff

Alta. harvest nearing completion: AARD

Oct. 7, 2008 at 2:45 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Favourable weather conditions during the past week allowed producers in Alberta to make good harvest progress, according to a crop specialist with the province’s Ag-Info Centre. “Provincially, the harvest in Alberta is roughly 85 to 90 per cent complete, with only the central region of the […]

By Dwayne Klassen