Insights and Stories on Crops

Monsanto puts up prizes for rural curling clubs

Nov. 1, 2007 at 11:34 pm CDT

Seed and chemical company Monsanto Canada has put up a total of $26,000 in prizes for six rural Prairie curling clubs best able to plead their case for “a better house.” The company’s “Imagine a Better House” contest, announced Thursday, offers a grand prize bursary of $10,000 along with two […]

Russian firm closes Buhler deal

Nov. 1, 2007 at 11:10 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola falls with U.S. market

Nov. 1, 2007 at 2:41 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

New P.E.I. case of potato wart confirmed

Oct. 31, 2007 at 5:11 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Prairie wind farmer gets $16M expansion financing

Oct. 31, 2007 at 4:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Nufarm to market Curtail M

Oct. 31, 2007 at 4:19 pm CDT

Nufarm Canada will take over marketing and sales responsibility in Western Canada for Dow AgroSciences’ herbicide Curtail M. Curtail M is a Group 4 (clopyralid and MCPA ester) herbicide that controls Canada thistle, sow thistle, dandelion and other broadleaf weeds in barley, wheat, oats, flax and forage grasses. The product […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up on CBOT soyoil surge

Oct. 31, 2007 at 3:27 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Wednesday’s session higher with canola rallying in step with the move by Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures to highs unseen in over 30 years, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade with intermonth spreading augmenting activity right […]

By Don Bousquet

KUC to build geothermal greenhouse

Oct. 31, 2007 at 2:38 pm CDT

B.C.’s Kwantlen University College will build a new greenhouse to study the potential of geothermal to heat commercial operations. The Lower Mainland school’s Institute for Sustainable Horticulture has picked up $2.2 million in provincial funding to build a 500-square metre greenhouse and an attached 450-square metre lab at KUC’s Langley […]

By FBC staff

Canola sector backs nutrition research

Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:15 pm CDT

(Revised) — The Canola Council of Canada and industry partners have set up a new fund to back research of canola oil’s use in healthy diets, the commodity group announced Tuesday. The Canola Product Research Fund is backed by the Canola Council, the three Prairie canola growers’ associations, Bayer CropScience, […]

By FBC staff

Danish biotech firm to buy Philom Bios

Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:10 pm CDT

Saskatoon crop inoculant maker Philom Bios recommended Wednesday that its shareholders accept a $25.6 million all-cash takeover bid by Novozymes A/S, a major player in the enzyme and microorganism business. Novozymes, based in Denmark, markets over 700 products in 130 countries for use in industrial and food production. The company […]

By FBC staff