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In 2010, a two-day conference centred in Memphis offered farm dealers from the U.S. and Canada, a glimpse of the effects of glyphosate resistance.
Jan 24, 2012 12:01AM
Canadian vineyards growing Chardonnay grapes could soon learn exactly which types of the grape variety are better suited to their particular climates.
Jan 23, 2012 7:21PM
New milling wheat, durum and barley contracts began trading on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform on Sunday at 7 p.m. CT, with only milling wheat actually experiencing any trade during its first day of activity.
Jan 23, 2012 5:57PM
A broad-spectrum fungicide used to control early and late blight in potatoes can now be used also to control black dot, another common potato plant disease.
Jan 23, 2012 5:22PM
Off-patent ag chemical maker Mana Canada has picked up federal approval for a foliar fungicide's use against sclerotinia stem rot and alternaria black spot in canola.
Jan 22, 2012 9:12PM
U.S. federal regulators have approved MGEX's plan to remove U.S. origin as a condition of delivery on its hard red spring wheat (HRSW) contract.
Jan 21, 2012 12:01AM
Claiming an "untenable" and polarizing debate in rural Ontario over an inefficient power source, the province's general farm organization now wants to see an end to industrial-scale wind turbine development.
Jan 20, 2012 6:46PM
A fungicide tank-mix has been granted a temporary emergency-use registration against downy mildew in greenhouse cucumbers.
Jan 19, 2012 6:33PM
Corrected, Jan. 20 -- Recent years' acquisitions by Canada's biggest grain handler are turning up well on the company's bottom line, Viterra reported Wednesday.
Jan 19, 2012 5:14PM
Manitoba will offer grants of up to $50,000 for users and processors of "high-quality, renewable biomass" to develop products for use in combustion heating systems.
Jan 19, 2012 5:00PM
Chickpeas pencil out to be one of the most profitable cropping options in Saskatchewan heading into the spring of 2012, but whether farmers will actually plant the pulse crop remains to be seen.
Jan 19, 2012 2:15PM
Suspending a new law that ended the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly would sow confusion in Western Canada's grain industry, lawyers for the federal government said in court on Wednesday in a hearing on a plea from eight former directors.
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