Insights and Stories on Crops

It’s Organic Week in P.E.I.

Sep. 25, 2007 at 11:39 am CDT

Prince Edward Island’s Agriculture Minister Neil LeClair has proclaimed the week of Sept. 23 as Organic Week in the province. The proclamation is meant to raise awareness of the importance of the organic sector in the province. “The demand for organic products currently exceeds supply, and that provides a major […]

Weather puts damper on Manitoba harvest

Sep. 24, 2007 at 9:35 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Wet weather stalls Sask. harvest

Sep. 24, 2007 at 5:25 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Corn-based deodorant hits market

Sep. 24, 2007 at 5:09 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Former Cargill chief on port board

Sep. 24, 2007 at 3:01 pm CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola up with soy oil

Sep. 24, 2007 at 2:22 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Winnipeg Commodity Exchange grain and oilseed futures closed Monday’s session mixed with canola higher on the firm tone in Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures, brokers said. Canola trade was moderate with intermonth spreading enhancing the overall activity. The total canola volume was estimated at 9,139 contracts, […]

By Don Bousquet

CFA blasts GROU container disposal fees

Sep. 21, 2007 at 3:32 pm CDT

Herbicide makers appear to be undermining a program allowing farmers to buy cheaper U.S. chemicals, by charging prohibitive fees for the disposal of empty containers, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) charged today. The web site where farmers may pre-pay disposal fees for chemicals they import under the Grower Requested […]

By FBC staff

WCE close: New highs set in barley

Sep. 21, 2007 at 2:05 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Canola futures at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange finished Friday’s session mainly lower with losses associated with a drop-off in demand and weakness in the CBOT soybean complex, market watchers said. WCE western barley values closed sharply higher with a number of months establishing new contract highs on […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Due diligence underway on CWB initials: Ritz

Sep. 21, 2007 at 1:12 pm CDT

Needling the Canadian Wheat Board for the time it took to ask Ottawa for an adjustment to its 2007-08 initial prices, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today said a decision is in the works. The federal government approves and authorizes initial CWB payments for Prairie wheat, durum and barley, which […]

By FBC staff

CFIA lowers U.S. rice restrictions

Sep. 21, 2007 at 12:22 pm CDT

Canada will scale back its import requirements on U.S. long-grain rice after having found no reportable levels of two unregistered, genetically modified (GM) varieties that found their way into the U.S. supply. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has tested and sampled long-grain rice from the U.S. for traces of LLRice601 […]

By FBC staff