Insights and Stories on Crops

Organic fruit projects eligible for U.S. funding

Jan. 22, 2008 at 5:24 pm CST

The U.S.-based Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) says it will invest US$450,000 over the next three years in organic fruit research and education projects in North America, including Canada. The projects will be funded in conjunction with Stretch Island Fruit Company, makers of FruitaBü organic fruit snacks, which has committed […]

PotashCorp clears first hurdle for N.B. mine

Jan. 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm CST

By FBC staff

Sask. canola, mustard groups name new brass

Jan. 21, 2008 at 6:19 pm CST

By FBC staff

Canadian regulators approve UAP takeover

Jan. 21, 2008 at 3:41 pm CST

By FBC staff

CN fell short on grain service: CTA

Jan. 19, 2008 at 3:15 am CST

By FBC staff

Feds fund N.B. biodiesel, bioplastics projects

Jan. 19, 2008 at 12:42 am CST

Three federal programs will flow a total of $861,000 into New Brunswick for two biodiesel projects and research on making plastics from potato and grain starch. Christian Paradis, the federal secretary of state for agriculture, announced the funding for the three projects Friday in Edmundston. They include: retrofitting and buying […]

By FBC staff

DuPont sells fruit crop herbicide brand

Jan. 18, 2008 at 5:26 pm CST

DuPont’s Group 5 herbicide Sinbar, used in Canada to control grasses in fruit, mint and asparagus crops, has a new U.S. owner. Tessenderlo Kerley (TKI), a Phoenix company that recently began expanding from fertilizers into crop protection, has bought both the terbacil herbicide Sinbar and a diuron product, Zobar, that […]

By FBC staff

Viterra posts “record” first-year profit

Jan. 18, 2008 at 5:04 pm CST

Buying Agricore United led to a healthier bottom line for the former Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in its first year as Viterra, the company announced Friday. Plus, the company now expects that its “synergies” from the merger, which became official in June, will pay off even better than it first predicted. […]

By FBC staff

Agrium extends UAP offer, again

Jan. 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm CST

Fertilizer maker and input retailer Agrium has again extended its offer to buy UAP, a major North American input retailer, while it waits for green lights from antitrust regulators in both Canada and the U.S. Calgary-based Agrium announced Friday that its US$39-per-share tender offer, which had previously been extended by […]

By Dave Bedard

GSU staff approve Viterra pension plan

Jan. 18, 2008 at 2:37 pm CST

Viterra employees represented by the Grain Services Union (GSU) have approved a pension plan agreement that settles a long-simmering dispute over shortfalls in pension funding. The affected employees, whose plan was carried over from Saskatchewan Wheat Pool into its merger with Agricore United as Viterra, voted 67 per cent in […]

By FBC staff