Insights and Stories on Crops

CWB launches online weather centre

Jun. 18, 2008 at 1:45 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board’s partnership with U.S. weather data firm WeatherBug has gone to the next step with the launch of a new online weather centre for Prairie farmers. The new weather centre, launched Wednesday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina, gives subscribing farmers the ability to […]

Don’t delay biofuel bill, GGC warns

Jun. 18, 2008 at 1:06 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Performance Plants takes biofuel work to U.S.

Jun. 18, 2008 at 12:50 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. crops to get boost from warm weather

Jun. 17, 2008 at 6:09 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Suncor to boost Ont. ethanol plant capacity

Jun. 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask., Man. crops need warmer weather

Jun. 17, 2008 at 12:02 am CDT

While fields in central and southern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba got some timely rain last week, farmers across both provinces are generally waiting for warmer temperatures to improve crop development. Saskatchewan Agriculture on Monday reported rainfall ranging from just seven millimetres in the province’s northwest to 75 mm in its […]

By FBC staff

Viterra’s AgPro staff vote to take deal

Jun. 16, 2008 at 5:24 pm CDT

Unionized workers at the former AgPro Grain elevators in Alberta and Manitoba have voted in favour of owner Viterra’s offer on a new contract, the company reported Monday. Of the workers who voted, 85.5 per cent voted to accept Viterra’s offer of a five-year agreement, the company said in a […]

By FBC staff

CWB to send Pool A barley final payment

Jun. 16, 2008 at 1:00 am CDT

Pool A feed barley delivered to the Canadian Wheat Board in the 2007-08 crop year will earn a final payment of $50.78 per tonne, effective June 12, the CWB announced Friday. Payments will be direct-deposited June 24 or mailed on June 27, the CWB said. Farmers have until June 18 […]

By FBC staff

Ont. soybean planting completed: OMAFRA

Jun. 16, 2008 at 12:49 am CDT

Emergence has been good in most Ontario soybean fields after planting wrapped up in the first week of the month, Ontario’s ag ministry reported Thursday. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) in its June 12 crop report noted “some crusting concerns from heavy rains” in a […]

By FBC staff

Market Insight: Barley upside may be limited

Jun. 13, 2008 at 4:08 pm CDT

If markets were only about supply, the barley market would have the potential to be very strong this coming year. Ending stocks at the end of the 2007-08 marketing year are expected to be at record-low levels as the strongest exports in over 10 years helped offset sagging domestic demand. […]

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