Insights and Stories on Crops

MRAC names new executive director

May. 27, 2008 at 11:26 am CDT

Assiniboine Community College’s agriculture program co-ordinator will be the new executive director for the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC). Ted Eastley will take the MRAC post starting June 30, the council said in a release Tuesday. Eastley, who farms with his family at Nesbitt, about 40 km south of Brandon, […]

Weekend rain benefits southern Sask., Man.

May. 26, 2008 at 5:10 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CFIA moves to end KVD on wheat imports

May. 26, 2008 at 2:30 pm CDT

By FBC staff

“No way” barley monopoly ends by Aug. 1

May. 26, 2008 at 1:36 pm CDT

By Alana Vannahme

Wheat, durum PROs drop back

May. 23, 2008 at 5:41 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. names ag commission members

May. 23, 2008 at 4:57 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island’s commission on the future of agriculture now has a full slate of commissioners. Agriculture Minister Neil LeClair on Thursday named the members of the commission, who he said are widely representative of the industry and all areas of the province. They include: Darcy Rennie of Alberton, a […]

By FBC staff

U.S. farm bill irks Canadian ag retailers

May. 23, 2008 at 3:03 pm CDT

The passage of the U.S. government’s US$290 billion farm bill guarantees not only more subsidies for wealthy U.S. farmers, but tax breaks and grants for U.S. ag input retailers that their Canadian competitors can’t match, two Canadian groups said Friday. The Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers (CAAR) and the Grain Growers […]

By FBC staff

Sugar beet acres rebound: StatsCan

May. 23, 2008 at 1:57 pm CDT

Sugar beets, significantly established in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, continue to be sweet for farmers in Ontario and Alberta, a new study has found. Census of Agriculture data show that in 2006, 314 farms seeded 19,488 hectares in sugar beets, according to the study, “That beet is sweet!” published […]

By Statistics Canada

Little damage seen in Man., Sask. frosts

May. 22, 2008 at 2:29 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Cool temperatures and a late spring are believed to have prevented crops in Manitoba and isolated regions of Saskatchewan from suffering any major damage from overnight frost. “I don’t think there was any substantial damage as a result of the cool overnight temperatures that were experienced […]

By Alana Vannahme Dwayne Klassen

B.C. extends organic extension funding

May. 22, 2008 at 2:22 pm CDT

British Columbia farmers will have an organic extension agent for at least another two years under extended funding announced Wednesday. The provincial ag and lands ministry, which provided $100,000 last year for the Certified Organic Associations of B.C. (COABC) to offer farmers an organic extension agent (OEA), has now committed […]

By FBC staff