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PotashCorp withdraws takeover bid for K+S

By GFM Network News October 5, 2015

New York/Frankfurt | Reuters –– PotashCorp said Monday it had withdrawn its 7.9 billion euro (C$11.6 billion) offer for German potash producer K+S, citing a decline in global commodity and equity markets and a lack of engagement by K+S management. K+S shares dropped 24 per cent after Potash announced its decision in a statement, wiping […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Market demand for Canadian hemp exceeding supply

By GFM Network News October 1, 2015

CNS Canada — As hemp users develop more uses for the plant and its seed, so too grow the demands on the crop. It’s a demand becoming tougher to fill, according to an industry expert, as the general public becomes increasingly interested in the plant. “You talk about canola being the miracle crop? Well, hemp […] Read more

U.S. consumers’ demand for organic foods, such as this California lettuce, has risen steadily in the past decade — particularly in California, which alone accounted for 41 per cent of U.S. organic sales in 2014. (Eric Brennan photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

General, Markets, Reuters

Sales from organic U.S. farms reached $5.5B last year

By GFM Network News September 17, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Sales from organic U.S. farms reached US$5.5 billion last year, a 72 per cent increase from 2008, the U.S. Agriculture Department said in a report on Thursday that highlighted the consumer trend toward such products. The USDA data, compiled through farmer surveys, showed that milk was the top organic commodity in […] Read more

Crops, Features

New special crops round-up

Hemp, quinoa, fababeans, camelina, hairy vetch, carinata and guar bean. Get the inside scoop

By Andrea Hilderman January 28, 2015

Some farmers love growing the latest “new” crop. Others drive by them in their neighbours’ fields and wonder what they are. There is no definitive list of “special” crops. Many crops we think of as “new” are actually very old. Some that are “special” in one area are standard in another. This is not an […] Read more

Crops

PHOTOS: Special crops you may be seeing more of

A quick look at camelina, carinata, hairy vetch, fababean and hemp

By Andrea Hilderman, Grainews Staff January 28, 2015

Here’s a look at five special crops that may have you craning your neck out the window of your pickup when travelling down gravel roads this summer.

Columns, Crops

Farm reporting ain’t easy

Reporter's Notebook: More information about hemp to add to what appeared in a previous article,  and a trip to a conference in Manitoba to learn more about grain transportation

By Lisa Guenther January 16, 2015

There is a whiff of shame that wafts from journalists after they’ve found out corrections are needed to a published piece. Despite our best intentions, fact-checking processes, and diligent editors, mistakes sometimes slip by us. Take an article I wrote on growing hemp a few months ago. I spoke to, and referenced material from, several […] Read more

Crops, Features

Growing interest in growing hemp crops

Interest in hemp is on the rise. Some see it as a money making alternate crop

By Lisa Guenther November 27, 2014

In 2013, over 66,000 acres were licensed to cultivate hemp, a nearly 10-fold increase from 2003, according to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance. “It’s a crop that there’s growing interest in it. Especially as canola’s starting to slump so bad,” says Harry Brook, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. But farmers can’t throw […] Read more

Daily Network News

Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

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