Insights and Stories on Crops

Ont. winter wheat poised for excellent yields

Jan. 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Ideal weather conditions through the fall planting season and winter thus far are reason to believe that this year’s Ontario winter wheat crop has excellent yield potential, according to an industry specialist. Peter Johnson, provincial cereal specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural […]

Energy costs not seen affecting seeding plans

Jan. 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm CST

By Dwayne Klassen

Man. canola checkoff to double

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm CST

By FBC staff

Sugar CEO eyed for CWB post: MCO

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:21 pm CST

By FBC staff

Viterra picks VANOC VP as new CFO

Jan. 24, 2008 at 2:01 pm CST

By FBC staff

CWB calls for higher initials

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:25 pm CST

The Canadian Wheat Board has put in for another increase in the initial payments for 2007-08 wheat, durum and barley. The board reported Monday that it had filed a recommendation with the federal government on Jan. 7 to raise the 2007-08 initials. Ottawa must approve such increases. A CWB initial […]

By FBC staff

CN grain revenue up in ’07

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:37 am CST

Higher revenue per carload of grain helped against “strong headwinds” in Canadian National Railway’s (CN) 2007 fiscal year, the company reported Tuesday. In its year-end financial results for 2007, CN posted full-year net income of $2.16 billion on $7.897 billion in revenues, up from $2.09 billion on $7.929 billion in […]

By FBC staff

Cargill to shut two Sask. elevators

Jan. 23, 2008 at 1:11 am CST

Cargill plans to close two grain elevators east of Saskatoon within the next four months and route the business to a larger elevator nearby, the company announced Tuesday. The company has scheduled “discontinuation” of its elevator at Humboldt, Sask., by the end of this month. Its elevator at Aberdeen, about […]

By FBC staff

CWB expands wheat storage program

Jan. 22, 2008 at 6:37 pm CST

Sign-up begins today for the Canadian Wheat Board’s expanded wheat storage program, which will offer farmers up to $15 per tonne to store high-quality wheat. The CWB announced on Tuesday that the storage program, in its second year, will be expanded to all delivery points across Western Canada that have […]

By FBC staff

Alta. trucks to road-test biodiesel

Jan. 22, 2008 at 5:51 pm CST

Biodiesel blends have officially left the lab to be tested against an Alberta winter. Climate Change Central, an Alberta public-private partnership group backing and developing greenhouse gas reduction policies and projects, on Tuesday formally launched the Alberta Renewable Diesel Demonstration, with the announcement of $2.6 million in federal and provincial […]

By FBC staff