Insights and Stories on Weather

Apr. 23, 2013 at 11:41 am CDT

Industry participants are certain we’ll see uncertainty in Statistics Canada’s first seeding intentions survey for the spring of 2013, given the late winter thaw, possibilities of flooding in some regions and resulting delays in planting crops. StatsCan’s planting intentions survey, conducted the week of March 25 to April 3 and […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Apr. 23, 2013 at 2:45 am CDT

Suffering congestion from “extreme cold and heavy snow in Western Canada” in its first fiscal quarter, Canadian National Railway (CN) has prescribed itself “capacity enhancements” on the Prairies. The company on Monday reported net income of $555 million on $2.466 billion in revenues in its first quarter (Q1) ending March […]

Apr. 23, 2013 at 1:32 am CDT

The Mississippi River reopened to commercial navigation on Monday afternoon along a 24-km stretch near St. Louis after an aerial survey found that none of the 11 barges that sank in the channel over the weekend posed a risk to navigation, the Coast Guard said. The river has been closed […]

Apr. 22, 2013 at 4:49 pm CDT

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat, corn and soybean futures fell roughly one per cent each on Monday on forecasts for better crop weather across a broad swath of the soggy U.S. crop belt, traders said. Cold and wet weather had been threatening crop prospects but also added valuable moisture […]

By Sam Nelson

Apr. 22, 2013 at 1:27 pm CDT

Manitoba has officially unlocked its share of the federal/provincial money available for programs under the sequel to the Growing Forward ag policy funding framework. Federal and provincial officials on Monday announced Manitoba will have a five-year budget of $176 million out of the $2 billion previously committed by the federal […]