In Brief… – for Feb. 5, 2009

Smaller Alta. beet crop costs Rogers: Shrinking sugar beet acreage helped bite deep into Rogers Sugar’s bottom line for the company’s first quarter. The Montreal income trust posted profit of $73,000 on $138.4 million in revenues for Q1 ending Dec. 31, down from $18.5 million on $173 million in the year-earlier period. Its gross margin

Crop husbandry makes a comeback

“Can you see anything else at this show that gives you 20 per cent more yield while spending less money?” – COLIN ROSENGREN When Colin Rosengren was looking for ways to improve the sustainability of farm near Midale, Sask., he turned to the best agronomist he could find – Mother Nature. It was by clueing