Insights and Stories on Weather

Long-range outlook points to warmer winter

Oct. 31, 2023 at 5:30 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Warmer than normal temperatures are expected across nearly all of Canada this winter, with average precipitation for most of the agricultural areas of the Prairies. The latest long-range seasonal forecast from Environment Canada, released Tuesday, calls for a 40 per cent chance of above-normal temperatures from November through […]

Prairie Forecast Update: Warmer air not in the cards

Oct. 30, 2023 at 10:58 am CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Arctic high slowly moving out

Oct. 25, 2023 at 9:20 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Cold and some snow coming

Oct. 22, 2023 at 6:29 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

AgriRecovery feed, freight, breeding herd aid set for Alberta, Saskatchewan, B.C.

Oct. 20, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Low water on Mississippi to persist despite improved drought outlook

Oct. 19, 2023 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Low water levels on the lower Mississippi River are likely to persist through at least January despite expected above-normal precipitation across the southern U.S. this winter, forecasters with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. The severe to exceptional drought choking the lower Mississippi […]

By Karl Plume

El Nino worries Brazil soy farmers as planting progresses, grain lobby says

Oct. 19, 2023 at 6:45 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Soybean farmers in top growing state Mato Grosso worry that scarce rains and high temperatures will lead to replanting of some areas while lowering yields in others, local grain farmer lobby Aprosoja-MT said Thursday. The unusual heat and dryness has been linked to the El […]

By roberto-samora

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn rangebound, soybeans rising, wheat erratic

Oct. 18, 2023 at 8:09 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade have moved higher over the past week, corn was rangebound and wheat lacked any clear direction in choppy trade, making it hard to predict where values may go from here, according to Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodities in Barrington, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Prairie Forecast: Warmer, colder… then snow?

Oct. 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm CDT

Not surprisingly for this time of the year, the last forecast didn’t play out exactly as expected, but overall, it was pretty darn close. The large area of high pressure that was forecasted to develop over the northern Prairies and slowly drop southward did just as forecast, but over the […]

By Daniel Bezte

Brazil tells landowners to stop setting fires in Amazon ‘climate emergency’

Oct. 13, 2023 at 7:48 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s government told ranchers and farmers on Friday to stop setting fire to the Amazon rainforest as clouds of dense gray smoke make the air increasingly unbreathable in the northern city of Manaus, threatening sanctions if they do burn areas of land. “Fire is not […]

By Reuters