The Grower Central portion of the website is almost up and running! This allows you to look up your Webb's Crop Services account details from your smart phone or home computer.  You can see what you have prepayed, outstanding balances, what product has been picked up along with many other features. To get your account set up please contact the office first so we can activate your account and give you a password.  Its a simple as that!! Looking forward to hearing from you!

Webb's Crop Services is in need of Class 3 Tandem Truck Dry Fertilizer Drivers. If you know of any semi retired drivers out there that would be willing to work a split shift with someone please send them our way!. 

Looks like the Viterra deal is done at C$16.25/sh

-          Deal has unanimous approval of Viterra’s board (VT-T, unrated)

-          Agrium and Richardson Itn’l will acquire the majority of VT’s Canadian assets and some other assets for ~C$2.6bn in cash

o   Agrium will acquire Vt’s agri-product assets (i.e. ~90% of its Canadian retail outlets plus some Aussie retail outlets) and will pay C$1.15bn – AGU sees the transaction adding immediately to earnings upon completion.  AGU will also acquire the minority stake in the Medicine Hat based nitrogen facility that is majority owned by CF industries (there was some concern that this could create some anti-trust issues). 

o   VT’s Agri-products division generated ~$2.4bn in revenue and $244 mm in EBITDA in 2011. 

-          Glencore get’s VT’s Australian assets

The Cole's Notes on seed test results so far for 2012

The Cole's Notes on seed test results so far for 2012. Peas are coming back with lots of "hard seed" which is to say that the seed coat is impermeable to water, and therefore will not germinate. Suggested early seed test be done and strongly considered! If high numbers of hard seed, then an increased seeding rate may not be a fix this year. They are also seeding it in Lentils but they tend to be less of a concern for our direct area at this time. Cereals. The good news is that the fungal screens so far are coming back significantly lower this year compared to last. This is a surprise considering all the disease we had in the field this year. But on the flip side of that, this year was probably the first year that there was a significant amount of acres sprayed with Fungicide. This is to say that by the looks of it in the lab, you're fungicide app in 2011 paid off on more than just increased yield! It has increase the overall quality of seed by a lot! The bad news on cereals is that there is an increase in chemical damage due to desiccating too early. Something to pay attention to for next year. Take a look at this time laps video on seed treatment! Pretty big difference, especially when you think about the temperature of the soil at seeding time http://www.bayercropscience.ca/products/seed-treatments/raxil/itreat/