Insights and Stories on Weather

Satellite’s crop monitoring days may be over

Apr. 10, 2013 at 1:15 am CDT

Agricultural users of Canada’s first Earth observation satellite won’t be getting new data from the unit in the near future. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced Tuesday that RADARSAT-1 has entered into “safe mode,” a semi-dormant state to conserve energy, after it “experienced a technical anomaly” on March 29. Entering […]

First fusarium-resistant spring wheat now in pipeline

Apr. 8, 2013 at 9:00 am CDT

By Allan Dawson

Snow-covered fields likely to push back Prairie seeding

Apr. 8, 2013 at 9:00 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Strong flax prices may not encourage acres

Apr. 8, 2013 at 9:00 am CDT

By Terryn Shiells

CFIA dials down anthrax response

Apr. 8, 2013 at 9:00 am CDT

Canola futures watching soybeans, weather

Apr. 5, 2013 at 8:49 am CDT

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts dropped sharply during the week ended April 3, backing away from nearby highs as a downturn in the Chicago soy complex spilled over to weigh on values. The canola market is expected to continue to take its direction from soybeans, although relatively supportive fundamentals should […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. wheat jumps as dry weather prompts short-covering

Apr. 4, 2013 at 8:31 am CDT

Chicago Board of Trade wheat jumped 3.8 per cent Wednesday, its biggest daily rise in six months, as concern about poor U.S. crop weather and expectations of strong global demand for U.S. supplies sparked a flurry of fund short-covering, traders said. Corn edged higher in choppy trade, stabilizing after three […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Third Sask. field joins clubroot club

Apr. 3, 2013 at 9:17 am CDT

Saskatchewan’s canola growers have been warned to seed with care as a canola field in west-central Saskatchewan has been confirmed as the third in the province to have clubroot. SaskCanola, the province’s canola development commission, announced Tuesday it had received confirmation from the provincial ag ministry of the new finding, […]

U.S. corn takes biggest two-day fall since 1996

Apr. 2, 2013 at 8:55 am CDT

Chicago corn tumbled to its biggest two-day drop since mid-1996, touching the lowest price in nine months, as larger-than-expected U.S. stockpiles weighed down the market. Pressured by corn, Chicago wheat also registered its lowest nearby price in nine months, and soybeans touched a nearly three-month low. Chicago Board of Trade […]

By Rod Nickel

Wet spring may temper corn-growing interest in Man.

Apr. 1, 2013 at 8:37 am CDT

Some Manitoba producers who want to start growing corn for the first time this spring may not be able to because of wet conditions and the possibility of delayed planting. “There are farmers who have never grown corn before or who have only grown just a little bit who are […]

By Terryn Shiells