Insights and Stories on Crops

Aug. 12, 2008 at 2:54 pm CDT

Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are underway in much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to those provinces’ weekly crop reports filed Monday. Saskatchewan’s agriculture ministry reports fall rye and winter wheat are six per cent harvested, with pea crops seven per cent harvested and one per cent of lentils […]

By FBC staff

Aug. 12, 2008 at 1:03 pm CDT

Many canola growers will face crops at two or more stages of development when it comes time to swath this year. The most profitable approach is to hold off swathing until sufficient average seed colour change has taken place, said David Vanthuyne, an agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of […]

By Canola Council of Canada

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

Farmer-owned Boundary Trail Railway Co. Inc. has reached a deal with Canadian Pacific Railway to keep almost 40 km of CPR track in southern Manitoba from being torn up for scrap. The 37.4 km involved had been part of CPR’s La Riviere subdivision, from Binney Corner (near St. Leon, about […]

By FBC staff

Aug. 11, 2008 at 5:03 pm CDT

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium, stymied by public opposition to its plans for a joint-venture urea plant on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, will instead take a stake in a new plant already built nearby, with plans to expand it. In a deal announced Monday with the Egyptian government, EAgrium, the joint venture […]

By FBC staff

Aug. 11, 2008 at 4:02 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The ongoing labour dispute at grain handler Viterra’s Regina headquarters is entering its second month with no sign of any progress, according to the union representing the 200 striking office workers. “There hasn’t been any movement,” said Hugh Wagner, general secretary of the Grain Services Union […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin