Insights and Stories on Crops

Bevo Agro booking more U.S. business

May. 5, 2008 at 2:55 pm CDT

Working itself out from under a rough 2007, B.C. greenhouse and horticultural plant supply firm Bevo Agro is reporting increased business from U.S. buyers. The Vancouver-area company last fall reported a net loss of almost $280,000 on $19.8 million in sales for its 2007 fiscal year ending June 30, citing […]

“Pop-up” effect may help stretch P budgets

May. 5, 2008 at 2:24 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Still too early in Manitoba for soybeans

May. 4, 2008 at 11:30 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Shippers’ complaint on CN car policy dismissed

May. 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Demand spurs record Q1 for Agrium

May. 2, 2008 at 1:57 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. launches commission on farming’s future

May. 2, 2008 at 1:08 am CDT

Prince Edward Island expects to draft a long-term vision for its agriculture industry through a new commission on the future of agriculture and agri-food in the province. “It is apparent that the current commodity model of production is not working for producers in this province,” Agriculture Minister Neil LeClair said […]

By FBC staff

Agrium’s UAP bid clears U.S. regulators

May. 2, 2008 at 12:28 am CDT

An agreement between fertilizer firm Agrium and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will allow the Calgary company to go ahead and take up shares tendered to its bid for U.S. ag retailer UAP. The FTC has accepted the agreement for public comment and given notice to Agrium that its required […]

By FBC staff

Debate continues on Man. corn acres

May. 1, 2008 at 3:06 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The debate on just how much corn will be planted in Manitoba continues to rage, with some market participants not willing to go along with a recent Statistics Canada acreage survey that suggested seeded area will be down in 2008. Seeded area to corn in Manitoba […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Viterra names new chairman

May. 1, 2008 at 1:20 am CDT

Montreal banker Thomas Birks has been elected the new chairman of the board at Canada’s largest grain company. Birks joined the board of what was then Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 2005, before the Regina company’s merger last year with its larger rival Agricore United under the name Viterra. He is […]

By FBC staff

FNA launches non-profit lobbying wing

Apr. 30, 2008 at 3:23 pm CDT

Government relations work on behalf of farmers buying ag inputs from outside Canada may go more easily through a new, non-profit advocacy group, according to Farmers of North America (FNA). FNA, a Saskatoon-based group that brokers deals for lower-cost imports of farm chemicals, fertilizer and other inputs and equipment on […]

By FBC staff