Insights and Stories on Crops

Mosaic plans long-term Sask. expansions

Apr. 5, 2008 at 1:37 am CDT

Fertilizer producer Mosaic has laid out plans to spend $3.15 billion expanding its potash mines at three sites in Saskatchewan over the next 12 years. Mindful of rising global demand from the crop nutrition market, the Minnesota company — which announced 680,000 tonnes of planned capacity expansions by 2012 at […]

Alta. Grain Commission gets new chairman

Apr. 5, 2008 at 12:16 am CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. greenhouse growers approve checkoff

Apr. 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Bayer to join WeatherBug’s Prairie network

Apr. 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. growers’ groups back on merger track

Apr. 3, 2008 at 11:56 am CDT

By FBC staff

Farmer strike spurs Canadian wheat sales: exporters

Apr. 3, 2008 at 11:31 am CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Exporters indicate that at least two cargoes of Canadian wheat have been sold to Brazilian millers as the farmers’ strike in Argentina left end-users looking to find alternative suppliers. “There is still some speculation that the Canadian wheat could have been either from Ontario or […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Smoky diesel trucks in B.C. face fines

Apr. 3, 2008 at 12:03 am CDT

British Columbia drivers who don’t keep a lid on emissions from heavy diesel trucks will now be liable for fines and warnings, the province announced Tuesday. The B.C. transportation ministry has moved its AirCare On-Road (ACOR) program from “educational” to “enforcement” mode, now allowing for fines of $95 and warnings […]

By FBC staff

Alta. pledges $85M for southern irrigation

Apr. 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm CDT

The water delivery agency for about 400 southern Alberta farmers’ irrigated land will get $85 million from the province to fix up its canals and add off-stream storage. “It’s a huge step forward in helping improve water efficiency, which is a key priority under Alberta’s Water for Life strategy,” Environment […]

By FBC staff

Lorox L cleared for use in herb crops

Apr. 2, 2008 at 3:27 pm CDT

Growers of coriander, caraway and dill can now use DuPont Canada’s Group 7 herbicide Lorox L on several broadleaf weeds as well as some grasses such as green foxtail. The company has picked up the added registration on its linuron herbicide brand, which DuPont described as a “mainstay” of the […]

By FBC staff

Sunflower growers not worried over increased U.S. acres

Apr. 2, 2008 at 2:46 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Canadian sunflower producers say increased oilseed sunflower acreage in the United States will not hurt the Canadian market as demand from U.S. crushers is also expected to increase. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2008-09 prospective planting report, released March 31, forecast U.S. oilseed sunflower […]

By Alana Vannahme