Insights and Stories on Crops

Rethink yield math: Sask. crop insurance review

Oct. 6, 2008 at 6:12 pm CDT

Yield trending and yield cushioning are among the changes recommended in a new review of Saskatchewan’s provincial crop insurance program. The province hasn’t yet specified what changes it will make on the basis of the review, prepared for the province by Meyers Norris Penny (MNP). But Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud […]

UAP launches slow-release N fertilizer

Oct. 6, 2008 at 4:38 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Friends of CWB look for quick court date

Oct. 6, 2008 at 3:22 pm CDT

By FBC staff

PotashCorp, union agree to meet

Oct. 3, 2008 at 6:43 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

St. Lawrence Seaway hoping to avoid strike

Oct. 3, 2008 at 5:46 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Income fund buys up Sask. pulse processor

Oct. 3, 2008 at 5:40 pm CDT

A Regina special crop-processing firm has bought up all the shares of a Saskatchewan pulse processor that it didn’t already own. Alliance Grain Traders Income Fund, owner of 55 per cent of Saskcan Horizon Trading, has closed into escrow its purchase of the remaining 45 per cent of the Aberdeen, […]

By FBC staff

Scotian Gold apple facility gets $2M loan

Oct. 2, 2008 at 5:04 pm CDT

The biggest apple packing and storage business in Eastern Canada will get a $2 million provincial loan to retool its packing system. The Nova Scotia government on Thursday announced a loan through its Industrial Expansion Fund to Scotian Gold Co-operative Ltd. at Coldbrook, just west of Kentville in Kings County. […]

By FBC staff

Agrium seeks buyback, shares drop

Oct. 2, 2008 at 4:27 pm CDT

Calgary fertilizer giant Agrium has announced plans to buy back up to five per cent of its common shares, considering them undervalued, the day before its stock and those of other fertilizer and ag firms took a hit in trading. “We believe the current price of our shares does not […]

By FBC staff

Trade sees yields beating new StatsCan estimates

Oct. 2, 2008 at 12:58 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Upward revisions to Canada’s 2008-09 grain and oilseed production estimates, announced by Statistics Canada on Oct. 2, were largely expected by market participants who are already turning their attention to subsequent reports with expectations for even larger numbers. “The crop numbers went up moderately and most […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

P.E.I. potato growers up for AgriRecovery aid

Oct. 2, 2008 at 12:21 am CDT

Potato growers on Prince Edward Island affected by “extreme wet weather” can now share up to $12.4 million in federal/provincial aid through the AgriRecovery program. AgriRecovery, one of the programs under the federal government’s Growing Forward ag policy framework, is meant to help governments address gaps not covered by existing […]

By FBC staff