Crops

The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are providing funding to enhance a program that helps deal with crop pests and nuisance animals. The feds and the province are providing $19.5-million to enhance the Pest Biosecurity Program.

Negotiations between Canada and the United Kingdom on a new trade deal are going well. That's according to the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ralph Goodale, who says a new deal is needed after the U.K.

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 99% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 38, an improvement from the previous week's 94%, and the best one week performance seen thus far during the 2022-23 grain year.

Canadian farmers won't have to worry about grain movement coming to a complete halt. A tentative deal between the federal government and workers with the Public Sector Alliance of Canada union has been reached.

Canadian farm groups are asking producers to lobby federal ministers and MPs to urge them to super-size a government proposal for what’s called ‘extended interswitching.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says overall cargo volumes fell by three per cent last year, as the global economy began to show signs of a slowdown.

The Manitoba government has opened intakes for two new programs under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) that provide funding to support sustainable farming in Manitoba, federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Mari

Russia’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva says no real progress has been made in resolving issues raised by Moscow over the Black Sea grain deal, which is set to expire next month.

Statistics Canada says farmers are expecting to plant the largest wheat crop in more than two decades in 2023. The data agency says this is possibly due to favourable prices and strong demand for wheat.

A major shareholder in pea and canola protein processor Merit Functional Foods has brought on an unnamed partner in its bid to buy the business out of receivership.