Insights and Stories on Crops

Warm weather favours some Man., Sask. crops

Jul. 8, 2008 at 4:07 pm CDT

Warm, dry conditions last week have allowed some Manitoba crops to catch up but have cooked other crops, especially in Saskatchewan. The weather allowed farmers in Saskatchewan to make good progress with haying, with 26 per cent of the first cut having been cut, baled or silaged compared to just […]

Canola exports steady, but could be better

Jul. 7, 2008 at 6:11 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Average winter wheat yields expected

Jul. 7, 2008 at 5:40 pm CDT

By Alana Vannahme

Viterra names VP for Asia

Jul. 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. ditches open for haying July 8

Jul. 7, 2008 at 4:28 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Market Insight: Mustard stocks seen tight

Jul. 7, 2008 at 2:04 pm CDT

Statistics Canada reported new crop mustard acres at 490,000, only 55,000 acres above last year and well below what the market requires for the coming year. Carry-in stocks are at pipeline levels; a situation likely to repeat itself this year given the inadequate acreage growth. The market will need above […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Viterra’s GSU staff plan strike

Jul. 4, 2008 at 6:13 pm CDT

Unionized staff in Viterra’s Saskatchewan country operations and head office plan a rotating strike to start Monday, in response to the grain company’s plans for a rotating lockout. Picket lines are to go up around the company’s Victoria Avenue head office in Regina after midnight on July 7, the Grain […]

By FBC staff

Lower government support hits CWB credit rating

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:07 pm CDT

Standard and Poor’s Rating Services announced that it has lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on the Canadian Wheat Board to ‘AA’ from ‘AA+’, citing a lower level of federal government support for the CWB as the main reason. Standard and Poor’s affirmed its other rating on the CWB at […]

By Resource News International

Market Insight: Flax at historic highs

Jul. 4, 2008 at 5:02 pm CDT

Commercial, conventionally-grown flax has climbed to $20 per bushel in value this week, net to farmers in various parts of the eastern Prairie growing region. Elevators’ posted bids have been below this, but some have hit $20/bu. targets, and a few other types of buyers including local processors and brokers […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Viterra plans “rotating” lockout

Jul. 3, 2008 at 11:54 pm CDT

The Grain Services Union (GSU) is pondering its next move after Canada’s largest grain handler announced a “rotating lockout” of some unionized staff will start Monday. Viterra management announced Wednesday that it has served a legal notice to the GSU for a lockout that does not physically keep workers in […]

By FBC staff