Insights and Stories on Crops

Ottawa puts up $46M to fight plum pox

Nov. 5, 2007 at 6:09 pm CST

Ontario’s tender fruit (peach, plum, apricot, nectarine) industry will get aid and further surveillance from a new federal/provincial venture to eradicate plum pox. The federal and Ontario governments announced the funding Monday. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will put up $36.16 million over four years, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency […]

Churchill posts near-record traffic

Nov. 5, 2007 at 4:36 pm CST

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola falls on slow demand

Nov. 5, 2007 at 3:33 pm CST

By Don Bousquet

Farmers rethink CWB as ethanol plants bid up for wheat

Nov. 5, 2007 at 2:59 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canada, U.S. cut red tape on processing potatoes

Nov. 2, 2007 at 5:41 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Gas discharge costs sulphur maker $280K

Nov. 2, 2007 at 4:39 pm CDT

Sulphur fertilizer maker Tiger Industries has been fined $280,000 for a toxic gas release at its former Calgary manufacturing plant, the provincial environment department said Thursday. The company pled guilty Tuesday to a provincial charge of releasing a substance that causes or may cause an adverse effect — in this […]

By FBC staff

Fertilizer markets tighten in Agrium’s favour

Nov. 2, 2007 at 4:13 pm CDT

A combination of higher volumes and higher prices on tight world fertilizer markets led fertilizer maker Agrium to a significant boost in its third-quarter profits, the company said Thursday. The Calgary company posted net earnings of $51 million on $1.04 billion in sales in its quarter ending Sept. 30, up […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Loonie undermines canola

Nov. 2, 2007 at 2:42 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange finished Friday’s session mainly lower, with the strength of the Canadian dollar scaring off much of the demand for the commodity, market watchers said. The losses were tempered by the advances seen in the CBOT soybean complex. WCE western […]

By Dwayne Klassen

CN, CPR rethink interchange points

Nov. 2, 2007 at 1:52 am CDT

Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) have drafted a new routing protocol to cut congestion at points where freight traffic shifts from one company’s track to the other. The two railways announced Thursday in a joint release that their plan will direct flows of interline traffic through the […]

By FBC staff

CWB’s malting barley gets China’s “Green” label

Nov. 2, 2007 at 12:02 am CDT

China’s Green Food Development Centre, which certifies foods for sustainable, “green” farming practices, has approved its “Green Food” label for Chinese beer made with Canadian malting barley. The Canadian Wheat Board has been granted “Green Food” accreditation for shipments of up to 600,000 tonnes per year of Prairie malting barley, […]

By FBC staff