Favourable weather conditions allowed producers across Manitoba to make significant harvest progress, according to the provincial agriculture department’s crop update for the week ended September 4. Spotty thundershowers did slow harvest operations in a few isolated areas. Harvest activities in the south and east of the province were virtually complete and were nearing completion in
Manitoba harvest, winter wheat seeding progress
North West Terminal raises ethanol funding
North West Terminal (NWT) has received the funding required to begin construction of a 25 million-litre-per-year fuel-ethanol facility at Unity, Sask., at the end of this month. The estimated total project cost is $42 million. A share offering by NWT raised $13.65 million, for which an aggregate of 2,424,625 class B Shares will be issued
Tories’ court appeal groundless: CWB
The Canadian Wheat Board is confident that the federal Conservative government’s appeal of the July 31 court decision which upheld the single-desk marketing of Western Canadian barley will fail. “The judge’s ruling was very clear…any changes to barley or wheat marketing must be made by the process set out in the Canadian Wheat Board Act,”
Prairie canola harvest slows in wet weather: CCC
Cool temperatures along with steady precipitation resulted in the canola harvest being slowed across most regions of Western Canada, according to the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) crop briefing for the period ended August 29. Swathing was just getting started in parts of west-central Alberta and the Peace region, whereas combining was up to 60
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