Insights and Stories on Crops

Yellow mustard beats weeds hardest in study

Apr. 1, 2008 at 5:22 pm CDT

Yellow mustard, compared and contrasted against other canola and mustard types in a recent Prairie study, comes out on top in terms of suppressing weed growth around it. But the message farmers should take from this three-year plot study, done by federal ag department researchers at sites in Saskatchewan and […]

Nominees wanted for “Seed of the Year”

Apr. 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm CDT

By FBC staff

B.C. sets up “flexible” biofuel mandate

Apr. 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Manitoba ag tire levy takes effect

Apr. 1, 2008 at 3:12 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Viterra officially out of WGRF

Apr. 1, 2008 at 1:45 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CFIA approves herb growers’ safety program

Apr. 1, 2008 at 1:29 pm CDT

The Canadian Herb, Spice and Natural Health Products Coalition has picked up a technical “letter of completion” for its on-farm food safety program, allowing farmer training to begin. The letter comes from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which presented it to the coalition during the Natural Health Products Research Society […]

By FBC staff

Harmony K cleared for durum

Mar. 31, 2008 at 4:35 pm CDT

DuPont Canada has picked up regulatory approval for use of its herbicide tank-mix Harmony K in durum wheat crops. Harmony K combines the herbicides Refine Extra, Horizon and Banvel II in a lone 40-acre box along with Score, an adjuvant to improve the tank mix. The approval, announced Monday, clears […]

By FBC staff

U.S. oats decline not seen impacting Canadian market

Mar. 31, 2008 at 2:38 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Expectations for fewer oats acres in the U.S. won’t impact the Canadian oats market in any shape or form, according to industry participants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its prospective plantings report released March 31, estimated U.S. oats area in 2008 at 3.420 million acres, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Larry Hill named CWB chairman

Mar. 28, 2008 at 4:42 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Southwestern Saskatchewan farmer Larry Hill has been elected the new chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board, after Ken Ritter stepped down from the position this week, the CWB confirmed Friday. The election took place at a board of directors’ meeting on Thursday, said Maureen Fitzhenry, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

CWB to offer organic spring contracts

Mar. 28, 2008 at 3:46 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board will extend its pilot organic marketing program by offering organic grain growers spring contracts on a limited basis for 2008-09, starting in mid-April. Contract availability is limited and will be determined by market opportunities, the board said in a release Friday. The marketing program includes a […]

By FBC staff