Insights and Stories on Weather

Jul. 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm CDT

U.S. new-crop soybean futures rose to a nearly three-week high on Wednesday on worries about planting delays and potentially stressful crop weather, traders said. Corn futures ended mixed with new-crop December edging lower, while wheat was mostly higher. At the Chicago Board of Trade, new-crop November soybeans ended up 8-1/2 […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Jul. 10, 2013 at 2:39 pm CDT

Manitoba’s provincial Crop Diagnostic Lab and Crops Knowledge Centre have received samples this week of wheat plants with distinct purple colouring on their leaves. Similar symptoms were first reported in 2009, on leaves of Kane wheat, according to staff from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, writing Tuesday on the […]

Jul. 10, 2013 at 2:17 pm CDT

It’s all in the timing: Delaying herbicide application until later stages of weed growth can result in lower crop yields. A field survey has found that when glyphosate is applied to glyphosate-resistant soybeans with weeds taller than six inches, crop yields can be reduced by as much as 27 per […]

Jul. 10, 2013 at 11:09 am CDT

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has created a new application Canadians can access over the Internet to report on how weather and climate conditions affect their farm operations. “It allows a producer to provide their story to us,” said Trevor Hadwen, an AAFC agroclimate specialist based in Regina. The Agroclimate […]

By Daniel Winters

Jul. 10, 2013 at 5:06 am CDT

Faced with beekeepers demanding a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, and crop growers bent on keeping those products available, the Ontario government hopes a new “cross-industry” panel on bee health will find some middle ground. The province on Tuesday announced the formation of a Bee Health Working Group, which it said […]