Insights and Stories on Crops

Canola exports decline, crush up

Jan. 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Canada’s canola export projections for the 2007-08 crop year are slowly being downsized, but strong domestic processor demand is expected to help limit the impact on Canada’s ending stocks picture. Strength in the Canadian dollar, along with high ocean freight rates were linked by industry sources […]

Barley deal with CWB “not achievable”: WGEA

Jan. 3, 2008 at 5:32 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ont. ag retailer to consolidate sites

Jan. 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm CST

By FBC staff

Approval paves way for Clearfield sunflowers: BASF

Jan. 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm CST

By FBC staff

Ont. greenhouse growers to vote on checkoff

Jan. 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm CST

By FBC staff

Alta. potato pest probe comes up negative: CFIA

Jan. 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm CST

Testing of seed potato fields across Alberta has found no potato cyst nematode (PCN) population anywhere in the province, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday. Over 8,700 soil samples have not confirmed the pest’s presence, even after tests in October turned up the “possible presence” of PCN in two […]

By FBC staff

Ritz pans CWB barley pricing plan

Jan. 2, 2008 at 7:09 pm CST

Canada’s agriculture minister calls the Canadian Wheat Board’s proposed cash pricing option for malting barley a “half measure” he won’t support. In an opinion piece released to newspapers Tuesday, Gerry Ritz writes that the CWB’s pricing plan for the 2008 malting barley crop does not go far enough for the […]

By FBC staff

Dow rolls out dual-action broadleaf product

Jan. 2, 2008 at 5:42 pm CST

Dow AgroSciences Canada has launched a new dual-action broadleaf herbicide brand for use in the Prairies’ brown and dark brown soil zones. The company has picked up registration for Benchmark in spring wheat, durum and barley. It will be available for farmers’ use this spring by the 40-acre case, Dow […]

By FBC staff

WCE today, “ICE Futures Canada” tomorrow

Dec. 31, 2007 at 4:01 pm CST

ICE Futures Canada will be the new moniker for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange starting tomorrow. Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), which bought the WCE in August and transitioned its all-electronic trading platform to the ICE platform on Dec. 10, announced Monday that its new subsidiary will have a new name in line […]

By FBC staff

CPR over, CN under grain revenue caps: CTA

Dec. 28, 2007 at 5:30 pm CST

Canadian Pacific Railway has set a new record for excess grain revenue, the Canadian Transportation Agency announced Friday. The agency sets annual caps on the amount of revenue Canada’s railways can make from moving grain off the Prairies to port terminals at Thunder Bay, Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C. and Churchill, […]

By FBC staff