Insights and Stories on Crops

Viterra: That’s “VT” to brokers

Sep. 26, 2007 at 4:06 pm CDT

Stock in Canada’s biggest grain handler will begin trading Friday under the ticker symbol VT on Toronto’s TSX. Viterra, which formed from the June purchase of No. 1 grain handler Agricore United by No. 2 handler Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, adopted the new name at the end of August and will […]

WCE close: Canola up on CBOT soy gains

Sep. 26, 2007 at 3:52 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

Prairie canola growers watch for clubroot

Sep. 26, 2007 at 3:37 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Alta. would intervene in CWB case: minister

Sep. 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Biotech not on consumers’ radar for food fears

Sep. 25, 2007 at 7:16 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Agrium shuts N plant for lack of gas

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:59 pm CDT

Fertilizer maker Agrium warns to expect further tightening in world nitrogen markets in 2008 as it closes its nitrogen fertilizer plant at Kenai, Alaska by the end of this month, for want of a natural gas supply. The Calgary company, one of the world’s biggest wholesalers of fertilizers, said in […]

By FBC staff

Biotech supporters urged to take leadership role

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:42 pm CDT

Calgary —At the same time that the world’s biotech scientists and regulators were deep in the 2007 Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC 2007) conference here, Canada’s media had been been invited to a press conference in the same building with Dr. Florence Wambugu, one of the world’s leading scientists helping […]

By FBC staff

Pioneer rolls out new soy breeding tool

Sep. 25, 2007 at 6:10 pm CDT

DuPont’s seed breeding firm Pioneer Hi-Bred plans to have new soybean varieties in 2008 selected for higher yield potential using a new breeding process. The patented molecular breeding process, which Pioneer calls Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT), uses molecular markers to track and select soy seed lines for native genetics with […]

By FBC staff

Showers slow Alberta harvest

Sep. 25, 2007 at 5:14 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Harvest operations in Alberta continue to be slowed by scattered shower activity and the absence of warm temperatures, according to a crop specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre. “The harvest is stuttering in a number of regions with precipitation just enough to only allow for a couple […]

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola falls in lacklustre trade

Sep. 25, 2007 at 2:07 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with canola mostly a bit lower in a choppy lackluster trade, brokers said. Canola saw moderate volume with very light intermonth spreading. Traders expect to see heavy spread trade later this week as both commodity […]

By Don Bousquet