Insights and Stories on Crops

Que. brewery gets $1M for expansion

Apr. 29, 2008 at 10:03 pm CDT

It’s hoped local farmers will be among the beneficiaries of a Baie-St. Paul, Que. brewery’s expansion, for which the province and Ottawa will kick in $1 million in total loans and grants. Gestion Bistro Brasserie, which has operated a craft microbrewery and restaurant in the community about 90 km northeast […]

Manitoba, Australia link up on drought research

Apr. 29, 2008 at 2:42 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Cool weather delays Prairie seeding

Apr. 28, 2008 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Dry P prices nearly double: KAP survey

Apr. 28, 2008 at 5:31 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Alta. Liberals press for farm labour standards

Apr. 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Saskatoon ag marketing firm merges

Apr. 25, 2008 at 4:26 pm CDT

Ag communications firm Heyday Communications will merge into the operations of The Marketing Den, a fellow Saskatoon ad and design agency, starting May 1. Heyday, whose ag clients have included Novozymes, UAP and Seed Hawk, as operated in Saskatoon since 1996, formed there by Rod Delahey. The Marketing Den, whose […]

By FBC staff

Ontario U-pick’s web site honoured

Apr. 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm CDT

A southern Ontario U-pick fruit operation has earned a North American award for its web site. Whittamore’s Farm, which bills itself as one of the largest U-pick and farm market operations in Ontario, earned the “Members’ Choice” award for outstanding web site, during the North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association […]

By FBC staff

Brighter crop prospects pressure CWB PROs

Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:14 pm CDT

Improved prospects for the worldwide wheat crop are a drag on the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2008-09 pool return outlook (PRO) for Prairie wheat. The April PROs — the board’s monthly estimates of crop year returns from its wheat and barley pools — have dropped across the board for 2008-09 milling […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa to fund B.C. hemp plot trials

Apr. 24, 2008 at 7:39 pm CDT

B.C. forestry towns hit hard by the mountain pine beetle will use federal cash to see whether they can produce hemp commercially. The project in the District of 100 Mile House, about 200 km northwest of Kamloops, will be funded through the federal Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI). Ottawa will […]

By FBC staff

Cost index raised for railways’ Prairie grain handle

Apr. 24, 2008 at 6:56 pm CDT

Rising fuel and labour costs may allow Canada’s two main railways to keep more revenue from Prairie grain freight in 2008-09. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Thursday announced it would boost the 2008-09 volume-related composite price index (VRCPI), a figure used to calculate the cap on western grain freight […]

By FBC staff