Insights and Stories on Crops

Manitoba crop report: showers delay harvest

Aug. 19, 2008 at 11:21 am CDT

Harvest is underway throughout much of agro-Manitoba, but some scattered showers and rain has slowed harvest in many regions. The southwest received scattered showers with no major accumulations. A good week for crop maturity as harvest began. Some winter cereals and peas were being harvested towards the end of the […]

Crop report: harvest underway in Saskatchewan

Aug. 19, 2008 at 10:45 am CDT

Amendments end KVD on wheat imports

Aug. 15, 2008 at 2:11 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Deere to expand Regina parts centre

Aug. 15, 2008 at 1:00 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Clock ticking on Chicago rail deal: CN

Aug. 15, 2008 at 12:41 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ag tires rolled into Ont. recycling plan

Aug. 14, 2008 at 11:24 pm CDT

A new program expected to recycle at least 90 per cent of Ontario’s used tires by its fifth year of operation will include farm and off-road tires. The Ontario government on Thursday announced it has asked Waste Diversion Ontario, a non-Crown corporation set up by the province in 2002 to […]

By FBC staff

Wheat Growers defend Alta. CWB report

Aug. 14, 2008 at 10:43 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board’s critique last week of a recent study of its performance in world wheat and barley markets has come under fire in a review of its review. The study, prepared by Informa Economics for the pro-deregulation Alberta government and released late last month, claimed Prairie farmers would […]

By FBC staff

Commodity firm buys into Canterra Seeds

Aug. 14, 2008 at 4:26 pm CDT

A new Canadian arm of a Minneapolis commodity firm has signed a deal to buy a 25 per cent stake in Canterra Seeds. Riverland Agriculture, Ltd. of Calgary will pay $3.125 million for 1.3 million Canterra voting shares and take two seats on the Winnipeg seed company’s board of directors, […]

By Dave Bedard

Sask. farmers post thousands more hail claims

Aug. 14, 2008 at 3:10 pm CDT

An unusually heavy year for crop hail claims in Saskatchewan got heavier in the past two weeks with 5,000 more claims filed, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. About 15,500 claims have now been filed with hail insurers that do business in Saskatchewan, the Prairie hail insurers’ group said […]

By FBC staff

Cancer conference to focus on pesticides

Aug. 14, 2008 at 1:24 pm CDT

Agricultural pesticides will be under the microscope at a conference to be hosted by the Canadian Cancer Society Nov. 12 and 13 in Toronto. “Exploring the Connection A State of the Science Conference on Pesticides and Cancer” will feature speakers from around the world who have expertise in assessing […]

By FBC staff