Insights and Stories on Crops

Headline cleared for crown rust in oats

Nov. 8, 2007 at 3:01 pm CST

BASF Canada’s strobilurin fungicide Headline has picked up approval for control of crown rust in oats crops in Canada. Headline, which carries the active ingredient pyraclostrobin, is best applied immediately after flag leaf emergence in cereals at a recommended rate of 120 to 160 mL per acre, the company said […]

Farmers can save Clearfield wheat seed

Nov. 7, 2007 at 7:37 pm CST

By FBC staff

Management changes hands at Buhler

Nov. 7, 2007 at 6:55 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

WCE close: Canola down on strong loonie

Nov. 7, 2007 at 3:33 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Exporters share freight rate burden

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:39 pm CST

By Alana Vannahme

Ottawa backs Alta. biodiesel plant with $639K

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:33 pm CST

Western Biodiesel, a 19 million-litre-per-year biodiesel project using canola oil and rendered beef tallow, has picked up $638,559 in federal funding toward the $8 million project cost. The project at Aldersyde, just south of Calgary, will also get $275,000 in direct equity investment from farmers, the federal government noted in […]

By FBC staff

Cuba, CWB sign wheat deal

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:06 pm CST

(Resource News International) — The Canadian Wheat Board and Cuba have signed a deal that will see 150,000 tonnes of Canadian wheat be shipped to Cuba during 2007-08 crop year, the board confirmed Tuesday. CWB CEO Greg Arason signed the agreement with officials from Alimport, Cuba’s food importing agency, on […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Monsanto to back Young Farmers Forum

Nov. 6, 2007 at 6:01 pm CST

The Canadian Young Farmers’ Forum has signed a three-year deal in which Monsanto Canada will put up cash and in-kind support for leadership and training programs for young farmers. The CYFF is a professional development group for farmers between ages 18 and 40 to provide a forum for information, consolidate […]

By FBC staff

Ottawa puts up $300K for Man. biodiesel project

Nov. 6, 2007 at 5:19 pm CST

The federal government’s Biofuels Opportunities for Producers Initiative (BOPI) will put up $300,000 for a biodiesel project at Altona in southern Manitoba, the company announced Tuesday. Sunbelt BioFuels Ltd. will get the maximum BOPI funding allowed, to be put toward planning its proposed 113.6 million-litre-per-year canola biodiesel plant. The funding, […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola lifted by soaring soyoil

Nov. 6, 2007 at 3:58 pm CST

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with canola posting moderate gains in the wake of a steep rise in Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola saw a moderate trade with intermonth spreading a minor component of the total […]

By Don Bousquet