Insights and Stories on Crops

Ag Growth offering to raise $45M

Sep. 12, 2007 at 2:34 pm CDT

Winnipeg’s Ag Growth Income Fund expects to raise $45 million to pay down debt and look at new acquisitions, following an agreement today to sell 1.73 million trust units to a Canadian underwriters’ syndicate. The underwriters are led by TD Securities and include Wellington West, CIBC World Markets and PI […]

P.E.I. names new deputy ag minister

Sep. 12, 2007 at 2:09 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Strong demand to put grain handling system to test

Sep. 12, 2007 at 12:05 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Ruling may free up jam maker for sale

Sep. 12, 2007 at 11:30 am CDT

By FBC staff

B.C. to extend tax breaks for ports

Sep. 12, 2007 at 10:50 am CDT

By FBC staff

WCE close: Canola mixed on firm loonie vs. soy gains

Sep. 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) grain and oilseed futures closed Tuesday’s session mixed with canola mixed as the very strong Canadian dollar pressured the market down, but was offset by the late rally in Chicago Board of Trade soy complex futures, traders said. Canola saw a […]

By Don Bousquet

Alberta harvest: South done, north just starting

Sep. 11, 2007 at 1:50 pm CDT

(Resource News International) — Harvest operations in southern Alberta were virtually complete, but remained stalled in the central and northern areas of the province, according to a crop specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre. “Wet and cool temperatures in the central and northern areas were slowing crop maturity as well […]

By Dwayne Klassen

StatsCan: Wheat supplies tight, canola stocks big

Sep. 11, 2007 at 10:36 am CDT

(Resource News International) There were few surprises in the Statistics Canada report on grain stocks in all positions for the period ended July 31, the end of the 2006-07 crop year. The exceptions to the rule, however, were tighter-than-expected wheat supplies and canola stocks a bit larger than anticipated. “The […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Markets to closely watch StatsCan’s stocks report

Sep. 10, 2007 at 5:31 pm CDT

Winnipeg (Resource News International) — Market participants will closely monitor Tuesday’s grain and oilseed stocks in all positions report scheduled to be released by Statistics Canada — especially its figures for 2006-07 wheat, barley and canola carryover, industry sources said Monday. “All the numbers will be used to tidy up […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Sask. harvest continues ahead of average

Sep. 10, 2007 at 5:22 pm CDT

Saskatchewan’s 2007 harvest remains ahead of the province’s five-year average despite weather conditions that have further delayed combining for farmers in northern growing regions. Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food said today in its crop report for the week of Sept. 9 that 55 per cent of the 2007 crop has been […]

By FBC staff