Insights and Stories on Crops

Canola export pace slow to heat up

Sep. 11, 2008 at 3:22 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Canada’s canola export pace for the 2008-09 marketing year, which began Aug. 1 and ends July 31, 2009, has been slow to heat up as end-users bide their time waiting for more information on the size and quality of the Canadian crop, market participants said. “There […]

Canaryseed, mustard groups get new managers

Sep. 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CWB broadens wheat storage program

Sep. 10, 2008 at 10:36 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Legislation backs Manitoba “inland port”

Sep. 10, 2008 at 9:39 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Stocks report slightly bearish for canola

Sep. 10, 2008 at 6:15 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Malting barley institute names new chief

Sep. 10, 2008 at 5:58 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board’s former head of malting barley technical services and market development is the new president and CEO of the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute. Michael Brophy was named to the post at the end of August, institute chairman Ed McCallum said Wednesday in a release. The […]

By FBC staff

Feds sued over CWB election spending changes

Sep. 10, 2008 at 5:44 pm CDT

A Prairie farmers’ group says it has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its removal of a spending cap on third-party campaigning in upcoming Canadian Wheat Board director elections. In a release Wednesday, the group Friends of the CWB said it plans to argue in court that the […]

By FBC staff

Merger boosts Viterra’s Q3 ledger

Sep. 10, 2008 at 2:22 pm CDT

Strong ag industry fundamentals have put a shine on Viterra’s third-quarter financial results as Canada’s largest grain company passes its first fiscal wedding anniversary. Viterra, which formed in late May 2007 from the merger of top Prairie grain handlers Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United (AU), on Wednesday posted net […]

By FBC staff

B.C. launches farm assessment consultations

Sep. 9, 2008 at 5:11 pm CDT

Two months of public consultations on the assessment of farm properties in British Columbia start next week in the community where the topic first became a sore spot among rural property owners. The provincial Farm Assessment Review Panel starts its provincewide run of meetings in Saanich on Sept. 16 at […]

By FBC staff

PotashCorp workers plan to strike “until we win”

Sep. 9, 2008 at 2:06 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The workers at three Saskatchewan mines owned by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. have been striking since Aug. 7, but the union representing the workers said they are prepared to strike “until we win.” “We are prepared to strike until we win. We are prepared to […]

By Alana Vannahme