Insights and Stories on Crops

CN petitions U.S. Court of Appeals to order final decision on Chicago acquisition

Sep. 18, 2008 at 12:42 pm CDT

Canadian National Rail (CNR) has petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for an expedited ruling that would order regulators to make a final decision on a proposed acquisition near Chicago. The company is seeking to purchase Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E), […]

CWB and Robin Hood flour to push Prairie wheat

Sep. 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm CDT

Pioneer Hi-Bred to sue Pioneer Grain

Sep. 17, 2008 at 5:09 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Community elevator burns in Sask.

Sep. 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm CDT

By FBC staff

DuPont names new Canadian ag chem chief

Sep. 17, 2008 at 2:04 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Market Insight: World waits on Canadian durum

Sep. 17, 2008 at 1:20 pm CDT

Canadian durum wheat plantings for 2008 exceeded six million acres. Record 2007 prices and improved agronomics seemed enough to encourage farmers to increase seeded area of the crop. The global durum market has been eagerly anticipating a big increase in Canadian production this year. In fact, a large part of […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Viterra to build new Peace-area terminal

Sep. 16, 2008 at 6:14 pm CDT

Grain handler Viterra plans to spend $24 million building a high-throughput terminal to meet rising demand in northern Alberta’s grain-growing Peace River region. The concrete-and-steel terminal on the CN rail line at Sexsmith, about 18 km north of Grande Prairie, will feature 30,000 tonnes of grain storage capacity and capability […]

By FBC staff

Sask., Man. farmers catch break in weather

Sep. 16, 2008 at 5:58 pm CDT

Grain growers in much of farming Manitoba and Saskatchewan were able to get harvest back on track last week as weather conditions improved, the two provinces said in their weekly crop reports. About 39 per cent of Saskatchewan’s crop had been harvested overall as of Sunday, up from 22 per […]

By FBC staff

Viterra head office workers take deal

Sep. 16, 2008 at 4:50 pm CDT

Striking workers at the head office of Canada’s biggest grain company will be back at work Sept. 22 after agreeing to what Viterra called its “last, best and final” contract offer. And workers at the company’s Saskatchewan grain elevators, all of whom were back on the job last week after […]

By FBC staff

Safflower-based insulin OK for human trials

Sep. 16, 2008 at 3:54 pm CDT

A Calgary biotech company using modified safflowers to make insulin for diabetes treatments has clearance from U.S. regulators to take its product to human clinical trials. SemBioSys Genetics announced Tuesday that it’s now eligible to go ahead with its planned Phase I/II human clinical trial of plant-produced insulin, since the […]

By FBC staff