Insights and Stories on Weather

Mar. 28, 2011 at 8:00 pm CDT

Off-patent ag chemical maker Mana Canada has picked up registration for a lower rate of application for preventive use of its Group 3 fungicide Bumper 418 EC. Bumper’s active ingredient, propiconazole, is best known in Syngenta’s Tilt 250E and is also the active in Viterra’s Propel and Ipco’s Pivot 418 […]

Mar. 28, 2011 at 4:58 pm CDT

Wet and cool conditions across the Prairies are expected to keep cattle producers buying feed barley, as their livestock will be headed out to pasture later than usual. Jim Beusekom, grain merchant with Marketplace Commodities at Lethbridge, Alta., said that for the time being at least, demand for barley should […]

By Brent Harder

Mar. 25, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

Manitoba cropland too wet to seed last spring, which didn’t get worked last year because it remained too wet, qualifies for Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) in 2011. Incorrect information appeared in a front page story on crop insurance in the March 17, 2011 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. EMI coverage […]

Mar. 24, 2011 at 4:30 pm CDT

A five-year, $26 million provincial incentive program for renewable diesel production in Saskatchewan will kick in next month, with a mandatory minimum renewable fuel requirement for diesel to follow 15 months later. The program, announced Wednesday as part of Saskatchewan’s 2011-12 provincial budget, will provide a grant of 13 cents […]

Mar. 24, 2011 at 12:10 am CDT

Any produce and dairy goods imported to Canada from parts of Japan at risk in that country’s current nuclear power plant crisis will face added restrictions on the way in. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday announced “enhanced import controls” on milk products, fruits and vegetables from the northeastern […]