Insights and Stories on Crops

Rules tightened on ammonium nitrate sales

Mar. 19, 2008 at 11:46 pm CDT

Anyone selling ammonium nitrate fertilizer in Canada will need to be registered and its resale will be prohibited under new federal regulations starting June 1. The new regulations announced Wednesday will require that anyone who sells ammonium nitrate — in its solid form at a concentration of 28 to 34 […]

Alta. roseroot processing project funded

Mar. 19, 2008 at 4:59 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Schmeiser settles for $660 from Monsanto

Mar. 19, 2008 at 2:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Wheat through Churchill port to earn premium

Mar. 18, 2008 at 6:21 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. launches spring runoff hotline

Mar. 18, 2008 at 5:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

P.E.I. committee urges biofuel policy

Mar. 18, 2008 at 2:08 pm CDT

Prince Edward Island should develop policies for its ag and forestry sectors aimed at creating an “aggressive biofuels portfolio” for the province, a provincial committee recommended Monday. The province’s environmental and renewable industries committee (ERIC) delivered its report Monday to the provincial cabinet. ERIC was asked to report on the […]

By FBC staff

WGRF 2007 tax credits announced

Mar. 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm CDT

Checkoff dollars paid on Prairie wheat and Saskatchewan and Manitoba barley will be 82 and 85 per cent eligible respectively toward federal research tax credits for 2007, the Western Grains Research Foundation announced Monday. Wheat growers in all three Prairie provinces can claim 82 per cent of their checkoff payment […]

By FBC staff

Equipment maker Ag Growth posts lower net

Mar. 17, 2008 at 11:59 pm CDT

Tax expenses affecting income trusts and a narrower margin due to renovation at its highest-margin business weighed on Winnipeg grain handling equipment firm Ag Growth’s net earnings for 2007. And the company said it plans to boost its margin in 2008 with further price increases on some of its products […]

By FBC staff

Funding eyed for Sask. cellulosic ethanol plant

Mar. 15, 2008 at 11:08 pm CDT

The federal NextGen Biofuels Fund has sent Ottawa enzyme maker Iogen’s funding application for a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Saskatchewan to the “due diligence” phase. The decision brings Iogen’s proposal “one step closer to making our country’s first full-scale cellulosic ethanol fuel facility a reality,” federal Environment Minister […]

By FBC staff

Soybean inoculants approved for West

Mar. 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm CDT

The inoculant maker formerly known as Philom Bios has picked up registration to market TagTeam Soybean and N-Prove Soybean liquid inoculants in Western Canada. Novozymes BioAg — as the Saskatoon firm was named after it sold itself to Danish enzyme firm Novozymes late last year — said its TagTeam Soybean […]

By FBC staff