by Breanne Baker | Dec 8, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Fertilizer and fuel prices have come down dramatically, but farm machinery costs remain very high. The Statistics and Data Development Unit of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development publishes average farm input prices for Alberta for selected commodities. The...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 27, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The price slide in Canadian Wheat Board grains has halted in the latest Pool Return Outlook. In fact, wheat values are up by $1 to $10 a tonne and feed barley values are up by $7 a tonne. Durum and malting barley are unchanged from last month. No. 1 spring wheat with...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 18, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Record setting harvest was done in Biggar Saskatchewan, Canada. 160 acres was harvested with 100 combines and several grain trucks in 10 minutes and 15 seconds. This world record will be entered in the Guiness Book. Proceeds of this crop is to be sent to kids camp....
by Breanne Baker | Nov 17, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
US – CF Industries Holdings, Inc. last night confirmed that a fatal release of anhydrous ammonia occurred during loading operations at its ammonia terminal at Pine Bend, Minnesota. “Tragically, one truck driver was injured fatally and another was taken to an area...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 11, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
The Canadian government announced it plans to invest up to $77.8 million in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan-based Terra Grain Fuels’ ethanol plant in the next seven years, according to a news release from the government, as part of the ecoENERGY for Biofuels...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 2, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Cycles of consolidation occur in all industries and then over time they breakdown and fragment again. We saw this first hand in agriculture around 10 years ago when Agricore United was buying up independents across the prairies; shortly after that a number of new...
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