Insights and Stories on Crops

Training funded for Ont. food processors

Jan. 31, 2008 at 2:57 pm CST

Ontario’s food processing plants can get a piece of $3 million in new provincial funds for training, research, expert advice and environmental audits. Of the funding announced Thursday, $2 million will go to the Alliance of Ontario Food Processors to develop and deliver a program to encourage innovation and productivity. […]

Western equipment dealers name new chief

Jan. 31, 2008 at 1:16 am CST

By FBC staff

N.S. farmers’ input wanted on water strategy

Jan. 30, 2008 at 5:21 pm CST

By FBC staff

Rail slowdowns leave grain shippers uneasy

Jan. 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Climate change calls for crop research: Wall

Jan. 30, 2008 at 3:07 pm CST

By FBC staff

Australian sugar CEO to head CWB

Jan. 30, 2008 at 2:58 pm CST

Ian White, the CEO of Australian sugar marketing firm Queensland Sugar, will officially be the Canadian Wheat Board’s president and CEO starting March 31. White will replace Greg Arason, who resumed the chief executive post on an interim basis in late 2006 after the federal government fired previous CEO Adrian […]

By FBC staff

CN cuts back service in West due to cold

Jan. 29, 2008 at 6:48 pm CST

Canadian National (CN) has temporarily cut back freight service in most parts of Western Canada due to “extreme cold and wind conditions,” the company said Tuesday afternoon. The company said it expects the service reduction to last for up to 36 hours and customers should thus expect delayed transit times […]

By FBC staff

N.S. setting up organic ag council

Jan. 29, 2008 at 4:43 pm CST

Nova Scotia farmers, processors and other stakeholders are forming a new organic agricultural council for the province. The new council, tentatively called the Nova Scotia Organic Council, will work with the federally-formed Organic Federation of Canada (OFC) to address issues in the industry on standards and regulations, organizers said Tuesday […]

By FBC staff

BASF takes Equinox to wide release

Jan. 29, 2008 at 4:22 pm CST

Chemical company BASF Canada plans to make its new Group 1 tepraloxydim herbicide Equinox “broadly available” across Western Canada for the 2008 growing season. The post-emergent dicot graminicide was only available “in limited quantities” to farmers in 2007, the company said in a release Tuesday. Equinox is registered for use […]

By FBC staff

Ritz wants barley “roadmap” from CWB

Jan. 29, 2008 at 3:56 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz wants a “clear roadmap” from the Canadian Wheat Board on how to provide greater marketing choice for Prairie barley producers, he said in a teleconference Tuesday. Ritz made his comments following a closed-door meeting with CWB officials and industry and farmer […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin