Insights and Stories on Crops

Manitoba’s Kyoto plan eyes local, organic food

Apr. 21, 2008 at 6:07 pm CDT

Funding for “local food” programs and conversions to organic farming are on Manitoba’s list of projects to reach its proposed Kyoto target by 2012. The province’s Kyoto action plan, outlined Monday, proposes $145 million in funding for a number of projects such as geothermal heating and cooling systems for new […]

Viterra to raise $400M, go shopping

Apr. 21, 2008 at 5:28 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CN takes slight drop in Q1 net

Apr. 21, 2008 at 5:02 pm CDT

By FBC staff

New mode of bug-killing action registered

Apr. 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm CDT

By FBC staff

StatsCan acreage estimate yields few surprises

Apr. 21, 2008 at 11:55 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Agrium, UAP move to shed retail outlets

Apr. 18, 2008 at 4:01 pm CDT

Fertilizer firm Agrium has extended its offer for U.S. ag retailer UAP for a fifth time for an extra two days’ grace after coming to terms with U.S. antitrust regulators. The Calgary fertilizer company on Friday said it has agreed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on terms of […]

By FBC staff

Grain prices seen hurting food aid programs

Apr. 18, 2008 at 2:59 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — High grain and energy prices are reported to be creating difficulties for organizations providing food aid to areas of the world in need. “We certainly are seeing an impact, as almost everything we are purchasing has gone up quite a bit,” said Heather Plett, director of […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Ont. biofuel projects get BOPI cash

Apr. 18, 2008 at 2:38 pm CDT

A farmer-backed feasibility study on sorghum-based biofuel is among four projects in Ontario to share over $600,000 in federal biofuels funding. Sweet Sorghum Initiative for Biofuels in Port Lambton, about 50 km east of Detroit, will get $222,975 from the Biofuels Opportunities for Producers Initiative (BOPI) to study the feasibility […]

By FBC staff

N.B. veg growers get new insurance plan

Apr. 17, 2008 at 5:52 pm CDT

The New Brunswick Crop Insurance Commission has launched a new insurance plan offering coverage to commercial vegetable growers. The commission’s fresh market vegetable acreage loss insurance plan will provide coverage for total losses of acreage of eligible fresh-market vegetable crops due to insured perils, the province said in a release […]

By FBC staff

Cover crop program deadline moved to June 30

Apr. 17, 2008 at 5:43 pm CDT

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has extended the application deadline for its 2007 cover crop protection program to June 30, 2008. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, whose department operates the CCPP in all provinces through its Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), said the government “wants to ensure that all eligible farmers have […]

By FBC staff