Insights and Stories on Crops

Grain helps hold up CN’s Q3 ledger

Oct. 22, 2007 at 11:31 pm CDT

Rising revenue from grain and fertilizer, among other sectors, helped offset Canadian National’s (CN) substantial drop in forest products revenue in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported Monday. CN posted net income of $485 million, down two per cent from the year-earlier quarter ending Sept. 30, on “essentially flat” […]

Toepfer manager named Viterra VP

Oct. 22, 2007 at 10:51 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Broken hoist idles Sask. potash mine

Oct. 22, 2007 at 10:26 pm CDT

By FBC staff

CN’s hopper car bookings can continue: CTA

Oct. 22, 2007 at 6:17 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola down on CBOT soy

Oct. 22, 2007 at 2:57 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Canadian vintners to study HACCP

Oct. 22, 2007 at 1:20 pm CDT

Five wineries are testing out a new HACCP food safety protocol for the Canadian wine industry. The Canadian Vintners Association on Friday picked up $312,000 in federal funding to develop an industry-wide system using the U.S.-developed Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) model. The five wineries are assessing the HACCP […]

By FBC staff

Grain handler hires ex-CWB CEO Measner

Oct. 19, 2007 at 3:20 pm CDT

Shipping and grain handling firm Upper Lakes Group of Toronto has hired ousted Canadian Wheat Board CEO Adrian Measner to head its grains group of companies. Citing Measner’s public statements in favour of the CWB’s sales monopoly on Prairie wheat and barley, then-federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl fired him from […]

By Dave Bedard

WCE close: Large supplies undermine canola

Oct. 19, 2007 at 2:16 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures finished Friday’s session lower, associated with the declines in CBOT soybean complex values and with large visible supplies in Western Canada, market watchers said. WCE feed wheat and western barley values were mostly higher, with the limit-up gains in […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Premiums just cover ’07 Prairie hail claims: insurers

Oct. 19, 2007 at 1:10 pm CDT

Estimates so far from Prairie farmers’ hail claims for 2007 come in at $208 million, just short of the $211 million collected in premiums, according to a hail insurers’ group. The Canadian Crop Hail Association said Friday in the last of its bimonthly reports for 2007 that “considerably more” cash […]

By FBC staff

Barley market not tied to single-desk fight: Ritter

Oct. 19, 2007 at 12:25 pm CDT

Prices for Prairie barley have little to do with the prospects of an open market and have climbed, not fallen, said Canadian Wheat Board chairman Ken Ritter Thursday, rebutting claims Wednesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Ritter said Harper’s comments in the House of Commons, which were part of his […]

By FBC staff