Insights and Stories on Crops

Viterra opens office in Singapore

Sep. 9, 2008 at 1:58 pm CDT

Canada’s largest grain company now has an office for its vice-president for Asia to go to. Viterra announced Tuesday that it has opened a new office in Singapore that will serve as the Regina-based grain firm’s Asian headquarters and manage trading activity in the region. The office “will also pursue […]

Rain stalls harvests all across Sask., Man.

Sep. 8, 2008 at 6:18 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Inquiry demanded over mushroom farm deaths

Sep. 7, 2008 at 11:03 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Declaration rules broadened for CWB vote

Sep. 6, 2008 at 3:25 am CDT

By FBC staff

Hort growers look to recycle plastics

Sep. 5, 2008 at 5:41 pm CDT

By FBC staff

JRI to rebrand ag businesses as “Richardson”

Sep. 4, 2008 at 5:17 pm CDT

Watch for new stationery from the ag businesses formerly known as JRI, Pioneer Grain and Canbra Foods. Winnipeg-based James Richardson International (JRI) announced Thursday that it has changed its own name to Richardson International Ltd. and will carry out its agricultural business under the trademark “Richardson.” Pioneer Grain, the privately-held […]

By FBC staff

Feds back spinach-based cosmetics production

Sep. 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm CDT

A Quebec company planning to extract compounds from organic baby spinach for use in new cosmetics will get up to $2.9 million in federal funding to promote its process. PureCell Technologies plans to use the funds to build a 10,000-square foot extraction and cosmeceutical manufacturing plant at Montmagny, about 80 […]

By FBC staff

U of Guelph opens organic farming centre

Sep. 4, 2008 at 4:25 pm CDT

Local organic food production and resource conservation are to be on the curriculum at the new Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming, officially opened at the University of Guelph. “This innovative centre will provide practical experiential learning opportunities for our students, which, in the long run, will help bring about […]

By FBC staff

Manitoba to back new food products

Sep. 4, 2008 at 4:12 pm CDT

The Manitoba government has released a new suite of support programs to help entrepreneurs wanting to launch new food products. “These new programs are designed to provide assistance to food entrepreneurs across each stage of making a business succeed, from product development to certification,” Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk said in […]

By FBC staff

Viterra elevator workers hit the bricks

Sep. 4, 2008 at 3:50 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Workers at Viterra’s grain terminal at Balgonie, Sask., established their first picket line early Thursday in what their union calls a bid to force the company back into productive collective bargaining. The Grain Services Union (GSU) represents Viterra’s estimated 650 country elevator operators and maintenance employees […]

By Dwayne Klassen