Insights and Stories on Crops

Canterra Seeds names new CEO

Jun. 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

A marketing manager with Cargill’s Canadian grain handling, seed and ag inputs wing has been named the new CEO of Winnipeg’s Canterra Seeds. The company announced Thursday that Richard Kieper, marketing manager for seed with Winnipeg-based Cargill AgHorizons, will be Canterra’s new CEO starting in early August, replacing Ron Gorst. […]

Oat prices firm though U.S. demand to fall

Jun. 26, 2008 at 5:13 pm CDT

By Alana Vannahme

New N.B. farmland development funded

Jun. 25, 2008 at 6:21 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canpotex to raise potash shipping capacity

Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:43 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. puts up $4M for farmers’ market projects

Jun. 25, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CWB posts new midge maps

Jun. 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm CDT

Weather data and computer modeling will help the Canadian Wheat Board post new daily maps estimating how and when wheat midge will emerge across the Prairies. The CWB announced Wednesday that it will post midge emergence maps on its site every weekday until the end of July. The maps are […]

By FBC staff

Former AU CEO joins BDC board

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm CDT

The federal government has named former Agricore United CEO Brian Hayward to the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Hayward is now president of Aldare Resources, the Winnipeg business consulting firm he formed in 2007 after the takeover of AU, then Canada’s largest grain handler, by No. […]

By FBC staff

Market Insight: Dry bean stocks, acres down

Jun. 25, 2008 at 11:46 am CDT

Dry edible bean supplies have been falling in Canada in recent years, and are poised to drop again by the end of 2008-09 to historically very tight levels. FarmLink is forecasting ending stocks to come in at just 9,000 tonnes, compared to 20,000 tonnes in 2007-08 and the five-year average […]

By farmlink-marketing-solutions

Canola acres up unexpectedly, barley down

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:50 am CDT

(Resource News International) — Canadian farmers seeded more canola than they originally said they intended to, bringing Western Canada up to a record 15.812 million acres, according to Statistics Canada’s updated 2008 estimates of principal field crop area. “It seemed like almost nobody thought there would be any big shifts […]

By Alana Vannahme

Sask. food centre chief moves to canola

Jun. 25, 2008 at 12:24 am CDT

The manager of Saskatchewan’s provincial Food Industry Development Centre next month becomes executive director of the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. Catherine Folkersen takes the new post starting July 28, the SCDC said in a release Tuesday. Raised in Ontario but with family roots at Bruno, Sask., Folkersen worked in the […]

By FBC staff