Insights and Stories on Crops

Sask. boosts crops’ insured prices for 2008

Feb. 22, 2008 at 4:07 pm CST

Among new programs such as coverage for gopher damage, Saskatchewan Crop Insurance will also “substantially” raise its insured prices for 2008, by almost 50 per cent per acre on average. “Our dollar coverage is increasing from a provincial average of $86 per acre in 2007 to $128 per acre in […]

Express SG picks up more pre-seed burnoffs

Feb. 22, 2008 at 3:00 pm CST

By FBC staff

St. Lawrence Seaway to reopen March 20

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:07 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Opposition politicians rally around single desk

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:28 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ont. drafts rules for Greenbelt expansion proposals

Feb. 22, 2008 at 2:25 am CST

By FBC staff

Potato centre rolls out new spuds

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:16 am CST

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Potato Research Centre (PRC) in Fredericton is offering 15 new promising potatoes to industry for further testing, AAFC announced Thursday. “Today’s release of these new and promising potatoes is a perfect way to mark the United Nations’ International Year of the Potato,” federal Agriculture Minister Gerry […]

By AAFC

Pulse Canada shipping strategy gets $600K

Feb. 22, 2008 at 1:05 am CST

The federal government has pledged a $600,000 contribution to the pulse crop industry’s new strategy to improve domestic transportation for its product. Pulse Canada’s transportation strategy “will allow stakeholders to work together and with government to identify and resolve transportation issues for the pulse and special crops industry,” the government […]

By FBC staff

Vineland hort centre sets up advisory group

Feb. 22, 2008 at 12:52 am CST

Ontario’s Vineland Research and Innovation Centre for horticulture has set up a new stakeholder advisory committee to help keep the centre connected to stakeholders, producers and outside experts’ advice. The not-for-profit centre in Ontario’s Niagara region announced the new advisory committee Thursday as the first of three it plans to […]

By FBC staff

SSCA names new president

Feb. 22, 2008 at 12:31 am CST

Laura Reiter of Radisson has been elected the new president of the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association. Reiter, a director with the non-profit producer organization since 2004 and most recently its first vice-president, was its first-ever female director, and thus its first female president, following a vote at the group’s recent […]

By FBC staff

Hudson Bay port gears up for 2008 season

Feb. 20, 2008 at 6:29 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Manitoba’s northern Port of Churchill is gearing up for its 2008 season with Canadian Wheat Board grains, non-board grains and a host of other items on the list of commodities expected to be moved through the facility, according to an official with the Churchill Gateway Development […]

By Dwayne Klassen