by Breanne Baker | Oct 22, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A recent story on the news website www.telegraph.co.uk had an interesting perspective on natural gas supply. An article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard talked about information presented at the World Gas Conference held in Buenos Aires. Rather than stories about dwindling...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 22, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There’s a lot of crop left to harvest, particularly in the northern grainbelt. When the weather finally straightens out, producers will be anxious to get combines rolling again. The Canola Council of Canada says producers may want to consider harvesting their canola...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 8, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Canada’s largest barley malting company, Canada Malting, will soon be under new ownership. The Australian bulk-grain handling firm known as GrainCorp is buying Canada Malting and three sister companies. The four malting companies are under the umbrella of United Malt....
by Breanne Baker | Oct 6, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Many businesses, including agricultural businesses are interested in exporting to the United States, but they don’t know how to get started. Or maybe they’ve tried crossing the border only to run into problems. On October 21 and 22, Trade Team Saskatchewan is leading...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 5, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Even though 2008 had a more favourable growing season, some Saskatchewan crop yields are going to be higher this year than last. In the Statistics Canada production estimate released on Friday, the Saskatchewan durum yield is pegged at 32.9 bushels per acre, up...
by Breanne Baker | Sep 29, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Flax Council of Canada is posting regular website updates on the GMO issue. Europe has discovered genetically modified material in Canadian flax shipments. The Europeans claim it’s the GMO variety known as Triffod which came out of the Crop Development Centre in...