Insights and Stories on Crops

Manitoba crops look good overall

Jul. 29, 2008 at 10:17 am CDT

Manitoba Agriculture’s crop report for the week ending July 28 indicates generally good though variable conditions for Manitoba crops, with some areas needing more rain and others suffering from excess moisture from storms last week. In the southwest, crops progressed well with early canola coming off flower but the majority […]

Grain Commission announces grading changes for 2008-09

Jul. 29, 2008 at 10:11 am CDT

Mission Terminal buys Man. elevator

Jul. 26, 2008 at 12:00 am CDT

By FBC staff

Soy rust spores reach Ont., Man.

Jul. 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm CDT

By FBC staff

New functional food research labs funded

Jul. 25, 2008 at 2:49 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Wheat drops back in 2008-09 PRO

Jul. 25, 2008 at 1:17 am CDT

Wheat values have retreated in the new 2008-09 pool return outlooks (PROs) from the Canadian Wheat Board as wheat harvests get underway on the northern half of the globe. The CWB, in its 2008-09 PROs released Thursday, show nearly all wheat values down by $11 per tonne compared to June […]

By FBC staff

Hort food safety program set for Sept. 1

Jul. 24, 2008 at 10:22 pm CDT

The Canadian Horticultural Council’s on-farm food safety certification program for growers of fresh fruit and vegetables will launch Sept. 1, the council announced Thursday. In a release, the CHC noted that growers’ customers may then request that the growers have program certification, to ensure that the council’s on-farm food safety […]

By FBC staff

PotashCorp faces strike as sales bust records

Jul. 24, 2008 at 3:52 pm CDT

A possible potash miners’ strike now looms over PotashCorp as the Saskatchewan fertilizer firm posts its highest quarterly earnings ever. Saskatoon-based Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan on Thursday racked up net income of $905.1 million (all figures US$) on $2.62 billion in sales in the second quarter (Q2) ending June 30, […]

By FBC staff

JRI backs work on Sask. landmark barn

Jul. 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm CDT

Winnipeg grain company James Richardson International (JRI) has put up a major pledge to rebuild the oldest major farm structure in Saskatchewan. JRI on Wednesday pledged $50,000 toward the Bell Barn Society of Indian Head‘s $1 million reconstruction and site development project, and will pledge a further 50 cents for […]

By FBC staff

Sask. pulse processor expands south

Jul. 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm CDT

Alliance Grain Traders, a Regina income fund that owns pulse processing operations in three countries, has inked a deal to buy another fellow processor close to home. Tradewind Commodities, which AGT describes as a “leading pulse and special crops processor” at Milestone, Sask., about 60 km due south of Regina, […]

By FBC staff