Insights and Stories on Crops

AAFC to track more organic imports

Jul. 2, 2008 at 4:56 pm CDT

A federal pilot project to track imported organic produce and get a better picture of market potential will expand to 20 new products, the federal agriculture department announced Wednesday. The 20 added products bring the total to 61, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada said in a release. The project, which was […]

Loosened variety registration rules proposed

Jul. 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.B. invites farmers to apply for board seats

Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Bayer rolls out new hort-crop insecticide

Jul. 1, 2008 at 2:35 am CDT

By FBC staff

Flax end-users rationing demand

Jul. 1, 2008 at 2:20 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Monsanto to charge RR seed fees by bag

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm CDT

Canola growers who buy Roundup Ready seed for 2009 will be charged license fees by the bag, not by the acre. Monsanto Canada announced Friday that it will drop its $15 per acre license fee for Roundup Ready canola technology, starting Sept. 1, 2008 for the 2009 growing season, in […]

By FBC staff

Senate passes biofuel mandate bill

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:04 pm CDT

Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed the federal government’s biofuel bill, giving the government authority to create mandatory minimum renewable fuel content in Canadian gasoline and diesel. The government plans to have a five per cent renewable fuel mandate for gasoline by 2010, and a two per cent renewable content rule […]

By FBC staff

GreenField to produce waste-based ethanol

Jun. 27, 2008 at 3:40 pm CDT

Ontario ethanol firm GreenField Ethanol has signed on for a project to produce ethanol from Edmonton’s municipal waste. The company announced Thursday it will work with the Alberta capital’s civic government and Montreal biofuel technology firm Enerkem on a $70 million facility, expected to produce about 36 million litres of […]

By FBC staff

Drozd: Corn fundamentals catching up to charts

Jun. 27, 2008 at 3:29 pm CDT

The fundamentals are playing catch-up to substantiate what the charts were predicting months ago. It was Jan. 2, 2008 and corn prices began the New Year trading above the previous month’s high. This higher opening created a “Gap” in price between the December high of $4.57 and January’s low of […]

By David Drozd