Insights and Stories on Crops

Clear skies spur harvest work in Sask., Man.

Sep. 22, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

Warm, dry weather over much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba last week allowed farmers to make “significant” harvest progress, the two provinces’ agriculture departments reported Monday. Saskatchewan farmers have harvested 66 per cent of the 2008 crop, up from 39 per cent the previous week and above the 2003-07 average of […]

Malt barley exports seen holding steady

Sep. 22, 2008 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Seaway strike could hurt Prairie farmers

Sep. 22, 2008 at 1:57 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Market Insight: Chickpea production down

Sep. 22, 2008 at 1:01 pm CDT

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Friends of CWB sue again over elections

Sep. 20, 2008 at 1:34 am CDT

By FBC staff

CWB opens CWRW fusarium program

Sep. 20, 2008 at 1:10 am CDT

Prairie wheat growers with fusarium-infected No. 2 Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat can now sign up for the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2008-09 fusarium program. Sign-up began Friday (Sept. 19) for the delivery contract program, which guarantees 100 per cent acceptance and delivery by Nov. 28 for No. 2 CWRW […]

By FBC staff

N.B. names new deputy ag minister

Sep. 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm CDT

New Brunswick’s deputy minster of intergovernmental affairs will move over a chair to become the province’s top bureaucrat for agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries. Longtime provincial public servant Jim McKay becomes deputy minister for both the agriculture and aquaculture portfolio and the fisheries portfolio effective Monday (Sept. 22), Premier Shawn Graham […]

By FBC staff

Ont. wines a $529M economic boost: study

Sep. 18, 2008 at 5:16 pm CDT

Ontario’s wine and grape production industries combined yielded a value-added impact of $529 million for the province’s economy in 2007, a new study reports. The study, done by KPMG for the Wine Council of Ontario, says that impact is up from $202 million in 1997. Furthermore, the study said, the […]

By FBC staff

Ont. to fund Niagara agri-tour project

Sep. 18, 2008 at 4:55 pm CDT

Ontario’s provincial government will provide start-up cash to launch an agricultural co-operative and seasonal tours through the Niagara region. The project, to be co-ordinated by Club 2000 Niagara, is meant to help make the region “a centre for agricultural tourism in southern Ontario,” the province said in a release Thursday. […]

By FBC staff

No merit in Pioneer v. Pioneer suit: Richardson

Sep. 18, 2008 at 1:15 pm CDT

The company formerly known as Pioneer Grain says it won’t stop selling seed to Prairie farmers under the Pioneer name without a fight. Richardson Pioneer, the recently-renamed grain handling wing of Winnipeg agribusiness firm Richardson International, said in a release late Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against it by Pioneer […]

By Dave Bedard