Insights and Stories on Crops

Nufarm to sell Achieve Liquid Gold

Oct. 10, 2007 at 2:26 pm CDT

Nufarm will take over marketing of Syngenta’s Achieve Liquid Gold herbicide in Western Canada, the companies announced Tuesday. Achieve Liquid Gold is a tank mix of Syngenta’s graminicide Achieve (Group 1) and Bayer CropScience’s Buctril M (Groups 4 and 6). (Nufarm also markets a generic version of Buctril M under […]

Sask. expects subpar yields

Oct. 10, 2007 at 1:43 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Sask. program funds two ethanol plants

Oct. 9, 2007 at 6:18 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Rain stalls last of Man. harvest

Oct. 9, 2007 at 6:05 pm CDT

By FBC staff

U.S.-bound oats exports expected to climb

Oct. 9, 2007 at 4:39 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

N.B. cranberry facility opens

Oct. 9, 2007 at 4:27 pm CDT

Atlantic Mist Cranberries has officially opened its $1.1 million processing facility at Richibucto-Village to clean, sort and grade cranberries for growers in the region. The receiving plant, which also includes new concrete receiving ponds, was built with about $406,000 in provincial funds, over $383,000 through the federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up on exports, soy gains

Oct. 9, 2007 at 2:39 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with canola up on talk of exports and gains in the Chicago Board of Trade soy complex, brokers said. Canola saw a very heavy trade with much of the activity comprised of intermonth spreading […]

By Don Bousquet

Hudson Bay track, port get $68M pledge

Oct. 5, 2007 at 6:27 pm CDT

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Manitoba Premier Gary Doer today dropped into the Hudson Bay port town of Churchill, Man., each bearing $24 million for upgrades to its deep-water Arctic port and the rail line connecting it to the Prairie grain belt. Hudson Bay Railway Co., which operates the port […]

By FBC staff

Alta. banks can lease farm equipment

Oct. 5, 2007 at 4:51 pm CDT

Amendments to Alberta’s Farm Implement Act now allow banks and other lenders to offer leasing options for farm equipment directly to farmers. The amendments allow for leases without having to obtain a farm implement dealer’s license. Equipment dealers and distributors will continue to provide warranty service and parts, the province […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola drops on strong dollar

Oct. 5, 2007 at 3:04 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures finished Friday’s session mainly lower with the strong Canadian dollar and weakness in the CBOT soybean complex behind the downward price slide, market watchers said. Position-evening ahead of the three-day long holiday weekend was a feature of the […]

By Dwayne Klassen