Insights and Stories on Weather

Man. corn acres unlikely to live up to early expectations

May. 24, 2013 at 7:39 pm CDT

Manitoba corn growers have made good progress planting over the past two weeks, but the late start is expected to limit expansion into non-traditional growing areas, according to an official with the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. After planting a record 300,000-acre corn crop in 2012, strong prices and improving varieties […]

Alta. seeding aided by warmer weather, but still behind

May. 24, 2013 at 3:53 pm CDT

By Brandon Logan

McMillan: U.S. farmers plant corn at breakneck pace

May. 24, 2013 at 2:59 pm CDT

By stuart-mcmillan

Westeel buys Italian grain conveyor maker

May. 23, 2013 at 4:17 pm CDT

McMillan: U.S. drought area down, but very dry areas drier

May. 23, 2013 at 12:39 pm CDT

By stuart-mcmillan

Tight feed forces some Prairie cattle to pasture early

May. 22, 2013 at 6:31 pm CDT

Some producers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are having to put cattle out to pasture earlier than they should because they don’t have enough feed supplies to nourish them. “Feed is really expensive these days, so producers are not going to purchase more,” said Glenn Friesen, forage specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, […]

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. corn falls after record planting pace

May. 21, 2013 at 4:32 pm CDT

U.S. corn futures dropped 1.5 per cent, to their lowest since early April, on Tuesday as investors unwound bull spreads following a record planting pace last week that encouraged farmers to sell some old-crop supplies to ease cash market tightness, traders said. A surge in corn planting progress during the […]

By Mark Weinraub

CropChatter: Should I be cancelling my soybean seed?

May. 21, 2013 at 12:28 pm CDT

If you’re a soybean grower in Manitoba, before you considering cancelling your soybean seed for this spring, Manitoba’s CropChatter website lists a few points you should consider. Other recent questions and answers posted on the CropChatter site include whether producers still need to be concerned about a spring frost; what […]

Prairie farmers take advantage of planting window

May. 21, 2013 at 12:13 pm CDT

Weather conditions were good for spring seeding across much of Western Canada over the past week, with producers in the Prairie provinces getting in about a third of the crop in the past seven days alone, according to a CWB official. Total seeding progress across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta was […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

McMillan: Northern Plains planting grinds to a halt

May. 21, 2013 at 4:58 am CDT

Planting problems resume for northern U.S. farmers. In what was already a very slow start to seeding, farmers were stopped by rains so heavy that flash flood warnings were issued for southeastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. The slow-moving weather system brought heavy rains to already-saturated ground. Over the past […]

By stuart-mcmillan