Insights and Stories on Weather

Alta. seeding aided by warmer weather, but still behind

May. 24, 2013 at 3:53 pm CDT

Warmer conditions in Alberta have advanced the seeding process the past two weeks, but most areas are still a week behind normal, according to a provincial crop specialist. “The last few years we’ve had cool, wet Mays,” said Harry Brook with Alberta’s Ag-Info Centre in Stettler. “This year May was […]

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

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

McMillan: Prairie crop insect pressure light, so far

May. 18, 2013 at 9:52 am CDT

With warming weather come weeds and pests. So far insect pest numbers on the agricultural Prairies have been light — although that can change quickly. “Given the late spring, no hot issues have popped up yet.” said Brent Flaten, integrated pest management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Moose Jaw. During […]

By stuart-mcmillan