Insights and Stories on Weather

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

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

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

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

Apr. 10, 2013 at 9:14 am CDT

British Columbia’s greenhouse growers will now get a permanent exemption from the bulk of the province’s carbon tax on their natural gas and propane use — with a similar break expected to follow for farm fuels. Telegraphed in the provincial budget in February, the new exemption announced Tuesday will come […]