Smaller Canada Canola Crop Could Curb Exports

A sharply smaller Canadian canola crop in a year when crushing capacity is expanding could create tight supplies that would buoy prices and force buyers to rethink plans. Most Canadian crops are expected to shrink after cool weather and drought-delayed development. Farmers are hoping for later-than-normal frost-free weather to allow their crops to mature. Amid

Viterra To Buy Manitoba Canola Crusher

The “cold-press” canola crushing plant at Ste. Agathe is becoming the latest acquisition for Canada’s largest grain company. Viterra announced Monday it will buy the Associated Proteins plant in the industrial park on the community’s west side for $64 million plus “working capital.” Pending approval from the federal Competition Bureau, the company said it expects


Pipeline To Be Extended

Hauling water 10 to 12 miles may soon become a thing of the past for up to 150 households and farms in the rural municipalities of Brenda and Arthur. Funding from the provincial and federal government to the tune of $1.6 million was announced recently which could extend a proposed six-inch water pipeline from the

Flooded Farmers Can Still Get Crops In On Time

Some Manitoba producers in flood-affected areas are still a few weeks away from seeding but specialists say there is no reason for panic assuming weather co-operates through May. As of May 5, the amount of flooded Manitoba farmland had retreated from its April 24 peak of 86,400 hectares to 64,600 hectares, a Statistics Canada report


NFU Seeks Excise Tax Rebate On Retail Fuel

The National Farmers Union says farmers should be able to buy their excise tax-free diesel at retail pumps and receive an 11.5-cent-per-litre rebate later. The NFU made the request in a letter to Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk. Wowchuk was hesitant to comment on the request last week having not yet received the letter. “But the

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost


Global Soymeal Use To Fall Sharply

World soymeal consumption is set to fall sharply this season as the global economic crisis cuts meat demand and reduces animal feed sales, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecast March 31. Global 2008-09 soymeal consumption is forecast to fall to 154.50 million tonnes from 160.28 million tonnes in 2007-08, it said. World 2008-09 soymeal production

Record-Breaking Year For Canadian Canola In 2008

“The trick is going to be to produce it year after year so that it will average 15 million tonnes.” – JOANNE BUTH 2 008 was a dream year for Canada’s Cinderella crop with records falling all over the place. Farmers harvested a record canola crop, with near-record oil content, after planting a record number


Forages Could Reduce Canola Yield

“Information about placing canola on forages is very limited, so caution is a definite must here.” Producers who have made the decision to put canola into fields previously in forages do so with a degree of risk, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed business specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Information about placing canola on forages is very limited,

Water — Our Valuable Resource

In North America, most of us take one thing for granted – water! I am not an environmentalist, reminding you of the importance of conservation, although I know it is an important issue. However, we don’t have to go long without water to realize how precious it is in our daily lives. Living on a