by Breanne Baker | Apr 16, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
In the past couple of weeks six other ag-retail locations have been purchased by Agrium, Vittera and other large players in the market place. On the new acquisition list we have the following: B&B Ag Services- Mossleigh, Ab purchased by P&H Eco Seeds-...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 16, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
DynAgra is pleased to announce the opening of a chemical warehouse in Brooks. This will allow for Brooks area growers to have an independent choice in their market for agronomy, VRT, custom application, seed, chemical and fertilizer. The loss of Lakeside in the area...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 7, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Prairie Canola Variety Trials have been cancelled for this year. Several Canadian canola seed developers are refusing to enter their varieties. When you look at the provincial seed guides, the information for comparing all the canola varieties comes from the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 19, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
At its annual meeting being held in San Francisco, the Canola Council of Canada has announced a new agronomy communications program for growers. The council says the plan called Grow Canola 2.015 will enable farmers “to interact with virtual agronomists for immediate,...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Just when things were starting to get really interesting in the fertilizer takeover game, it looks like it has now all come to an end: Agrium has announced that they will be dropping their pursuit to take over CF Industries. Also meaning the sale of half of the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 2, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
After an announcement last week that Yara and Terra have agreed on the sale of Terra to Yara. CF has now come back with the following take over option which tops the previous bid from Yara: CF Industries Holdings Inc. said March 2 that it has offered to acquire Terra...