Insights and Stories on Weather

U.S. soybeans tumble on looming South American sales

Apr. 24, 2013 at 3:29 pm CDT

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures fell over one per cent on Wednesday on long liquidation anticipating heavy movement soon of soybean supplies from South America’s bumper harvest. Slow sales of soy from Brazil and Argentina have been helping lift soybean futures but traders said they expected movement to […]

Few surprises in StatsCan’s seeded area intentions

Apr. 24, 2013 at 3:12 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

McMillan: U.S. spring grain seeding at a standstill

Apr. 23, 2013 at 4:04 pm CDT

By stuart-mcmillan

Chicago corn falls for second day as crop prospects improve

Apr. 23, 2013 at 2:41 pm CDT

By Sam Nelson

Late spring fuels uncertainty in StatsCan acreage ideas

Apr. 23, 2013 at 11:41 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Cold, snow in West chill CN’s Q1 grain handle

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 […]

Mississippi River barge traffic resumes near St. Louis

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 […]

U.S. grains market crumbles on brighter crop weather outlook

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

Manitoba unveils Growing Forward 2 programs

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 […]

Flooding, barge accidents halt Mississippi River traffic

Apr. 22, 2013 at 12:34 pm CDT

Barge shipping on the Illinois River and parts of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Monday as flooding forced the closure of numerous locks and as crews worked to recover dozens of barges that broke free in flood-swollen currents. The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Mississippi between river […]

By Reuters