Insights and Stories on Crops

PotashCorp posts record Q3

Oct. 26, 2007 at 1:13 am CDT

Predicting price hikes for its main product on tighter supplies in 2008, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan on Thursday announced record third-quarter earnings, also the second-highest quarterly earnings in its history. PotashCorp reported a net income of $243.1 million on $1.3 billion in sales for the quarter, up from $145.2 million […]

Tight stocks drive record highs for durum: PRO

Oct. 25, 2007 at 5:37 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola lifted by CBOT soy gains

Oct. 25, 2007 at 2:12 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Ontario corn harvest two-thirds done, soy finished

Oct. 25, 2007 at 1:39 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola lower on slow demand

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:23 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Ontario seeds record winter wheat acres

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:09 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Record-high wheat prices, combined with extremely favourable seeding conditions, are believed to have resulted in winter wheat area in Ontario hitting a new record high, according to a spokesman with the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board. “While we are still waiting for some final acreage numbers, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Chinese tariffs disadvantage Canadian canola

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:03 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — China’s recent soybean tariff reduction puts Canadian canola producers at a disadvantage, according to Dave Hickling of the Canola Council of Canada. Hickling , the council’s vice-president of canola utilization, said a variety of issues are responsible for Canada’s canola seed exports declining in September and […]

By Alana Vannahme

Alta. harvest 95 per cent complete: AAF

Oct. 23, 2007 at 2:47 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — The return of drier weather, along with warmer temperatures, has allowed producers in Alberta to virtually wrap up their 2007 harvest operations, according to a crop specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre. “Producers finally got some drier weather to work with and there are only now […]

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola market choppy on Canadian dollar

Oct. 23, 2007 at 2:30 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session narrowly mixed with canola fractionally higher as the surging Canadian dollar created a choppy tone, brokers said. Canola saw an active trade with intermonth spreading accounting for the bulk of the volume. Commercials positioning ahead of […]

By Don Bousquet

Grain researchers owe CPR $871K: CTA ruling

Oct. 23, 2007 at 12:10 am CDT

The Western Grains Research Foundation is being asked to hand over $870,783 in funding it collected from Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) for the 2005-06 crop year. The foundation said in a release Monday that CPR has successfully appealed the Canadian Transportation Agency’s decision on how much the railway owed to […]

By FBC staff