Insights and Stories on Weather

Brazil may fine beef producers buying Amazon cattle

Apr. 16, 2013 at 5:52 am CDT

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to fine 26 beef producers a total of US$282 million for buying cattle raised in illegally deforested Amazon areas or on indigenous reservations, the federal prosecution service said Monday. The list included one major Brazilian food producer — Brasil Foods — which faces fines totaling 17.6 […]

U.S. hog, cattle futures fall with other commodities

Apr. 15, 2013 at 3:17 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Pearce: Round table yields positive recommendations on soil health

Apr. 15, 2013 at 12:45 am CDT

By Ralph Pearce

Sask. launches Growing Forward sequel’s programs

Apr. 13, 2013 at 1:38 am CDT

Chicago wheat rallies on demand, cold temperatures

Apr. 12, 2013 at 3:59 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Weather premiums building in U.S. wheat futures

Apr. 12, 2013 at 11:06 am CDT

Adverse weather conditions for both winter wheat in the southern U.S. Plains and spring wheat in the north are helping U.S. wheat futures show signs of turning higher, after drifting down for most of the winter, said a North Dakota-based analyst. Many winter wheat areas saw good amounts of precipitation […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie floods seen crimping fertilizer flow to farms

Apr. 12, 2013 at 11:01 am CDT

Fertilizer makers may be hard-pressed this spring to move their yield-boosting products to western Canadian farmers during a shortened planting season, as the potential for major flooding grows. Cold weather has delayed the melt of heavy snowpack in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, raising the risk that floods in late April […]

By Rod Nickel

Old-crop U.S. corn, soy firm on tight supplies

Apr. 11, 2013 at 3:59 pm CDT

Front-month Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures rose on Thursday due to strong nearby demand for physical supplies from U.S. crushers, traders said. “It is all bull spreading right now,” said Chad Henderson, grain market adviser with Prime Agricultural Consultants. “It really has to do with the stronger cash […]

By Mark Weinraub

Wet Prairies could help some insects thrive

Apr. 10, 2013 at 3:38 pm CDT

Western Canadian farmers should be on the lookout for a number of insect species this growing season, as the wet spring conditions may cause some populations to thrive, specialists in the three Prairie provinces said. One insect that thrives in wetter weather, and thus could impact growers this season, is […]

By Terryn Shiells

Cargill profits sink as U.S. drought hits meat business

Apr. 10, 2013 at 9:14 am CDT

U.S. agrifood giant Cargill said on Tuesday that lingering pressure from a historic U.S. drought hurt its meat and grain operations, knocking quarterly earnings down 42 per cent. The worst drought in more than half a century last year devastated the corn harvest in the United States, the world’s top […]

By Tom Polansek