Insights and Stories on Crops

UAP takeover complete

May. 7, 2008 at 5:32 pm CDT

Calgary fertilizer and ag retail firm Agrium has officially wrapped up its US$2.65 billion friendly takeover of UAP. Agrium announced Wednesday it has successfully completed its cash deal to buy the Colorado ag retail company for US$39 per share through a subsidiary, Utah Acquisition, which will now be merged with […]

U of Guelph goes big with food focus group

May. 7, 2008 at 3:57 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Man., Sask. seeding resume

May. 7, 2008 at 2:09 pm CDT

By FBC staff

StatsCan grain stocks report neutral on markets

May. 7, 2008 at 1:36 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Cold snap hammers Okanagan orchards: report

May. 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Fungicide approval opens U.S. to treated oats

May. 6, 2008 at 5:02 pm CDT

Canadian oat growers who use Headline fungicide to treat their crops may ship oats south now that U.S. regulators have also approved the product’s use on oats. BASF Canada, which makes Headline, announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently approved Headline’s use on oats. BASF had […]

By FBC staff

Canada tables European free trade deal

May. 6, 2008 at 12:24 am CDT

A trade deal that would eventually end or cut tariffs on several Canadian crops and foods in four European countries has been tabled in the House of Commons. Canada and the European Free Trade Association countries — Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland — signed their free trade agreement (FTA) in […]

By FBC staff

Cross-border seed potato standards reworked

May. 6, 2008 at 12:01 am CDT

Alberta seed potatoes, possibly including some of the 2007 crop, may be allowed to travel south under new guidelines for seed potato trade between Canada and the U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Monday announced “modified” guidelines to allow for continued potato […]

By FBC staff

Agrium takes over UAP

May. 5, 2008 at 5:04 pm CDT

Fertilizer firm Agrium’s friendly takeover of U.S. ag retailer UAP is nearly complete, with nearly all UAP shares tendered to the Calgary company’s offer. As of its deadline last Friday, about 98.5 per cent of UAP’s outstanding shares had been tendered to Agrium’s $39 per share offer and not withdrawn, […]

By FBC staff

Sask. urges farmers to keep out clubroot

May. 5, 2008 at 4:48 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s ag ministry is calling on canola growers to take the necessary steps to keep clubroot out of the province. In 2007, the province said in a release, nearly 60 canola fields in central Alberta were overcome by clubroot, a disease it described has “harmful and swift-moving.” While not yet […]

By FBC staff