Pulse Crops A Popular Option

Canadian farmers will devote more acres this year to pulse crops such as lentils, because big global supplies of wheat have hit prospects for the country’s biggest crop while uncertainty overhangs canola. There’s more uncertainty than usual this year, because a late harvest kept many farmers from preparing land for the new crop, said Ken

Questions Raised About Monsanto Penalties

Four Ontario farmers found guilty of stealing Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soybean technology are unlikely to find sympathy from fellow farmers who abided by their contracts. But Monsanto’s decision to deny those farmers access to its seed technology for life is raising questions among industry observers concerned about concentration in the marketplace. In 2007, 65 per


No Obvious Winner In Comparisons

“Buyers will not volunteer payment security.” – SCOTT WOLFE REPORT Any replacement to the current system of bonding western Canadian grain buyers as required by federal law should be mandatory because a voluntary producer payment security system will not work, a new report says. “Buyers will not volunteer payment security,” says the summary of a

KAP, WRAP, APAS Reach Farm Policy Consensus

“The federal and provincial governments all need to be working together towards the same ends.” – GREG MARSHALL The three Prairie general farm organizations have accomplished something rare among farm groups – common ground on farm policies. Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) hosted the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) and Alberta’s Wild Rose Agricultural


Spring fertilizer crunch coming?

Reduced demand for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet on the other side of the coin, there is the concern about whether or not the supply will be there in the