Insights and Stories on Chemicals

Two Saskatchewan co-ops to buy ag input retailer

Feb. 17, 2022 at 5:57 am CST

A pair of Saskatchewan co-operatives are expanding their reach in the crop input retail sector in that province’s northeast, with a deal to buy an independent dealership chain. Lake Country Co-op and Prairie North Co-op announced Tuesday they have agreements in place to buy the assets of Melfort-based Paragon Ag […]

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Oct. 15, 2021 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Moira Warburton

New B.C. youth work rules: Heavy lifting, ag chem handling out

Jul. 23, 2021 at 3:59 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Co-op, Blair’s joint venture to sell one crop input centre

Jul. 7, 2021 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Syngenta’s Shanghai IPO to fund growth, acquisitions

Jul. 2, 2021 at 9:26 pm CDT

By John Revill Meg Shen

Farm suppliers race COVID-19 spread for planting season

Mar. 26, 2020 at 5:15 pm CDT

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — North America’s biggest farm suppliers are accelerating shipments of fertilizer, seeds and agricultural chemicals to crop-growing regions in an unprecedented race against the coronavirus that threatens to disrupt planting season. The timing could not be worse for farmers preparing to plant crops. Disruptions in deliveries of […]

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

Ag chem industry watching COVID-19’s spread

Mar. 5, 2020 at 7:24 pm CST

MarketsFarm –– China is a major producer of agricultural chemicals — and disruptions to production would have a ripple effect on North American supplies of crop protection inputs, such as herbicides and insecticides. Plant closures and transportation issues due to the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus are being followed closely, but […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Competition Bureau probing big ag chem companies

Feb. 6, 2020 at 9:57 am CST

Reuters — The Canadian Competition Bureau said on Thursday it was investigating certain agriculture companies for alleged anticompetitive practices over allegations of trying to block an online farm-supply startup from doing business in Western Canada. The regulator did not provide details on specific companies involved in the probe, but documents […]

By Arundhati Sarkar Kelsey Johnson

Syngenta owner ChemChina to merge ag assets with Sinochem’s

Jan. 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm CST

Zurich | Reuters — ChemChina and Sinochem are consolidating their agricultural assets into a new holding company to be called Syngenta Group, ChemChina unit Syngenta said on Sunday. Chen Lichtenstein, current CEO of Shenzhen-listed crop protection company Adama, which will also be incorporated into the new group, will be nominated […]

By Reuters

Talks continue toward ending CN strike as factories slow output

Nov. 20, 2019 at 12:48 pm CST

Montreal/Winnipeg | Reuters — Talks to end a strike by thousands of workers at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway, continued on Wednesday, as industrial plants slowed output of products cut off from their markets. About 3,000 unionized workers, including conductors and yardmen, hit picket lines on Tuesday after talks […]

By Allison Lampert Rod Nickel

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