Insights and Stories on Weather

U.S. soybeans fall on technicals, harvest

Sep. 17, 2013 at 4:13 pm CDT

Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell for a third straight session on Tuesday on technical weakness and softening cash markets ahead of the U.S. harvest, traders said. Corn also eased reversing gains tied to government data indicating a smaller U.S. planted area than the current official estimate, while wheat […]

CBOT soybeans fall two per cent as rain tempers worries

Sep. 16, 2013 at 4:55 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Rod Nickel

Prairie farmers wait to assess frost damage

Sep. 16, 2013 at 4:26 pm CDT

Farm use of neonics ‘not sustainable:’ PMRA

Sep. 13, 2013 at 6:31 pm CDT

Mustard yields ‘all over the map,’ analyst says

Sep. 13, 2013 at 4:57 pm CDT

By Brandon Logan

Bayer to scrap TraitGuard canola program for 2014

Sep. 13, 2013 at 3:57 pm CDT

Calling the program a “bigger challenge” than expected, Bayer CropScience Canada plans to shut down its TraitGuard early-season establishment program for growers of its InVigor canola. Under TraitGuard, farmers who signed the program release would see per-acre refunds of the InVigor trait fee they paid to Bayer, on InVigor hybrid […]

Late blight arrives again in Manitoba potato country

Sep. 13, 2013 at 9:41 am CDT

Manitoba’s agriculture department has again confirmed findings of late blight, a highly destructive Prairie potato disease, in the central potato-producing area of the province. Late blight is able to attack both tubers and foliage at any stage of development and can destroy entire fields if left unchecked, the province has […]

Corn futures sink after USDA increases U.S. crop; soy soars

Sep. 12, 2013 at 5:13 pm CDT

U.S. corn futures tumbled on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised traders by increasing its harvest forecast despite a late-summer stretch of hot, dry weather in key crop areas. Soybean futures soared after the USDA, in the same monthly report, made a larger-than-expected cut to stocks remaining at […]

By Tom Polansek

Late harvest, dry soil to impact Prairie winter wheat seeding

Sep. 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm CDT

Seeding of winter wheat has begun in some areas of the Prairies, but is delayed in others because of the late start to harvest this year. “A lot of your winter wheat gets planted into some barley stubble or canola stubble and we really haven’t seen a lot of harvest […]

By Terryn Shiells

CBOT soy, corn, wheat edge up ahead of USDA harvest view

Sep. 11, 2013 at 5:21 pm CDT

U.S. soybean futures crawled higher on Wednesday as hot weather in the U.S. Midwest encouraged traders to expect a lower harvest outlook in a government report due on Thursday. Corn and wheat futures also rose in tentative trading in the run-up to the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture crop […]

By Tom Polansek