Insights and Stories on Crops

Farm Progress names Viterra as top sponsor

Mar. 26, 2008 at 2:44 pm CDT

Regina’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show will be “presented by Viterra” for its 2008 and 2009 events. The Regina grain company and the farm technology and equipment show announced a multi-year sponsorship deal Wednesday, making Viterra the “presenting sponsor” for the next two shows. “The partnership builds on longstanding relationships […]

Thin Prairie snowcover may hit winter wheat

Mar. 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Viterra launches Alta. carbon credit plan

Mar. 26, 2008 at 1:32 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Canola meal demand, supply both strong

Mar. 26, 2008 at 10:55 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Small decline expected in Ont. corn acres

Mar. 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Lentil treatment to be sold via UAP

Mar. 25, 2008 at 4:49 pm CDT

Crown, a seed treatment for lentils and chickpeas, will be distributed exclusively by UAP Canada on the Prairies starting in this crop year. Chemtura Crop Protection, the Connecticut company that holds the registration on Crown, and UAP announced the new agreement in a release Tuesday. The fungicide is used to […]

By FBC staff

Farm groups want review of “runaway” rail costs

Mar. 25, 2008 at 3:15 pm CDT

Pointing to what they say is over $100 million per year in “unreasonably excessive” railway revenue at farmers’ expense, Western Canada’s general farm organizations want Ottawa to conduct a full rail costing review for the first time in 16 years. At a press conference Tuesday just outside Winnipeg, spokesmen for […]

By FBC staff

Tariff shouldn’t hinder fertilizer imports: FNA

Mar. 24, 2008 at 3:50 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — New tariffs on Russian fertilizer exports are not expected to affect sales from that country to Prairie farmers through the Saskatoon-based purchasing group Farmers of North America (FNA). The Russian government recently said nitrogen fertilizer exports will be subject to a tariff of 8.5 per cent […]

By Alana Vannahme

Beet ethanol proposal may leave P.E.I.: CBC

Mar. 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm CDT

A proposal to make ethanol from Prince Edward Island sugar beets may go elsewhere following a report that suggests it would take up at least all the province’s non-potato cropland, according to CBC. The broadcaster quoted Ron Coles of Atlantec BioEnergy saying the company’s $85 million proposal for the Borden […]

By FBC staff

Vineland centre plans “local” project

Mar. 24, 2008 at 12:44 pm CDT

The Niagara region’s Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has kicked off a new “Local Food” project with the goal of supporting and directly linking local growers, producers and suppliers with buyers. The plan, announced Monday with the launch of a Niagara Local Food pilot project, is meant to improve the […]

By FBC staff