Insights and Stories on Crops

Russian firm makes new bid for Buhler

Sep. 14, 2007 at 6:03 pm CDT

A Russian combine manufacturer has reworked its bid to buy a majority stake in farm implement maker Buhler Industries, moving to an all-cash offer. Combine Factory Rostselmash had raised eyebrows among market analysts with its previous bid this summer, in which it offered to buy 51 per cent of the […]

WCE close: Soybeans boost canola

Sep. 14, 2007 at 3:44 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Ottawa puts up $500M for non-grain biofuels

Sep. 14, 2007 at 11:11 am CDT

By FBC staff

Man. soybean growers prepare for harvest

Sep. 14, 2007 at 10:39 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

WCE close: Canola falls on profit-taking

Sep. 13, 2007 at 2:56 pm CDT

By Don Bousquet

P.E.I. names point person for potatoes

Sep. 13, 2007 at 1:18 pm CDT

Going beyond the traditional ag extension duties of its potato specialists, Prince Edward Island has created the role of a potato industry co-ordinator. Rachel Cheverie, the province’s integrated pest management (IPM) specialist at Charlottetown for the past eight years, has been appointed to the new role, which will include co-ordination […]

By FBC staff

Frost hits some Alta., Sask. crops

Sep. 13, 2007 at 12:08 pm CDT

(Resource News International) Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight Wednesday in the grain and oilseed producing regions of central and northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Yields were not likely to have been significantly impacted, but the quality of the crops in those areas probably suffered some more, according to Bruce Burnett, director […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Dairy giant buys Manitoba flax processor

Sep. 13, 2007 at 11:20 am CDT

An Irish multinational dairy foods and nutritional ingredients firm has bought Manitoba flax processor Pizzey’s Milling for an undisclosed sum. Glanbia plc, through its U.S. subsidiary Glanbia Nutritionals, said it plans to use its research and marketing structure to develop the international market for the flax ingredients Pizzey’s produces. The […]

By FBC staff

Husky in market for feed wheat

Sep. 13, 2007 at 10:25 am CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Husky Energy will soon begin operations at a new 130 million-litre-per-year ethanol plant in Minnedosa, Man., and is aggressively in the market for feed wheat supplies to run the facility. A company official said contracts for January delivery were just announced this week. Raymond Dyck, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

B.C. expands home-grown school snack program

Sep. 12, 2007 at 5:01 pm CDT

British Columbia today expanded its school fruit and vegetable snack program to 164 schools, providing B.C.-grown fruit and vegetables as occasional snacks for up to 57,000 students. The program, which started as a pilot in 2006 with 10 schools and expanded in January to 51, is delivered by the B.C. […]

By FBC staff