News Archives

June 26, 2009
Late seeding and weather issues that have delayed the progress of canola  may now be negating the benefits of seed treatments in controlling flea beetle and subsequent damage. 

June 26, 2009
Representatives of the National Farmers Union from Renfrew County have issued a statement about input suppliers capturing 99.6 percent of the wealth generated from Canadian farming during the past 24 years, using numbers from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Statistics Canada.

June 26, 2009
University of Manitoba economist Dr. Greg Mason maintains that global competition and farm succession are the two most pressing issues facing Canadian and Prairie agriculture in the second of a three-part series.

Iowa farmers are employing a simple filter of wood chips, secured in the outlet of a tile line, as a form of 'bio-reactor', designed to keep nutrient run-off from fields from entering nearby waterways.

June 24, 2009 – Nearly five months after Agrium Inc. began making overtures to a friendly merger with CF Industries Holdings Inc., the Calgary-based corporation is now considering its options in the wake of an offer worth $3.9 billion (US).  

Statistics Canada released the latest figures on acreage for field crops across Canada, with spring wheat acres reporting a 7.3 percent increase from 2008 and a new high for soybean acres in Ontario and Quebec.

Timely rains fell across much of Saskatchewan last Sunday, and may have dispelled many of the fears that crops would not survive late frost and dry heat, but there are still concerns that growers may not see a bumper crop.

Federal and provincial governments have combined resources to invest more than $42 million in the next four years towards environmental and stewardship projects, including GPS tracking of pesticide and nutrient applications and improved manure management.

A new free trade agreement between Canada and Peru has the support from the Canadian pulse and special crops industry, including Pulse Canada, which sees significant potential in the deal.

The financial and environmental impacts of biotech crops have been quantified in a lengthy report by PG Economics Ltd., an independent consulting firm in the UK, and it has some telling results!