Insights and Stories on Weather

Cargill’s High River beef plant closed, not flooded

Jun. 23, 2013 at 12:44 pm CDT

Massive flooding in the High River area of southern Alberta hasn’t yet directly hit one of the largest beef packing plants in the heartland of Western Canada’s beef industry. However, with many roads cut or washed out and water service disrupted, Cargill Meat Solutions’ cattle slaughter and beef processing plant, […]

Too early to assess flood’s impact on Alta. farmland: AgMin

Jun. 22, 2013 at 2:27 am CDT

Lower wheat, higher canola acreage expected in StatsCan report

Jun. 21, 2013 at 5:49 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. corn, soybeans fall on improving crop weather

Jun. 21, 2013 at 5:02 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Little sign of aster yellows so far

Jun. 21, 2013 at 4:32 am CDT

By FBC staff

U.S. grains down on macroeconomic worries, weather outlooks

Jun. 20, 2013 at 3:49 pm CDT

U.S. grain prices fell on Thursday amid a broad-based commodity selloff and a firming dollar, a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled it was ready to slow down the pace of bond purchases. The Fed news sent shock waves across all the financial markets. Wall Street stocks fell more […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Growers needed for Alta. pea root rot survey

Jun. 20, 2013 at 3:33 pm CDT

If you’re an Alberta pea grower, you can help researchers learn more about fusarium root rot in peas by offering up your field for research. Traditionally, Red Deer and Lacombe have been the primary area for peas in the province, but things have changed in recent years — and about […]

By Alexis Kienlen

U.S. wheat jumps on short-covering

Jun. 19, 2013 at 5:13 pm CDT

U.S. wheat futures climbed nearly three per cent on Wednesday, their biggest daily rise since April, on buying and expectations of domestic demand for wheat as livestock feed, traders said. Corn and soybeans also advanced, led by new-crop contracts as forecasts for hotter, drier weather later this month in the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. corn ends higher, led by new-crop contracts

Jun. 18, 2013 at 4:00 pm CDT

U.S. corn futures rose on Tuesday, led by deferred contracts on technical buying and forecasts for potentially stressful hot weather in late June, traders said. “The thought of any high-pressure ridge — the market is very sensitive to that right now, after what happened last year,” said Sterling Smith, futures […]

By Julie Ingwersen

McMillan: Russia, Ukraine begin winter wheat, barley harvests

Jun. 18, 2013 at 3:51 pm CDT

The initial harvests of winter barley and winter wheat have begun across southern Russia and Ukraine and are close to two weeks ahead of normal, encouraged by recent hot and dry weather. Multiple agencies anticipate exports from both countries to rebound following last year’s drought. In Ukraine, barley production is […]

By stuart-mcmillan