Insights and Stories on Weather

Dry spots in five provinces up for livestock tax deferrals

Nov. 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm CST

The federal government has expanded its list of designated areas into three more provinces where livestock producers are now eligible for income tax deferrals, because of the effect of dry conditions on forage yields. The deferrals, announced Thursday, are meant to allow producers to defer income tax on the sale […]

Sask. road loads raised for winter on Dec. 1

Nov. 29, 2012 at 5:51 pm CST

Brazil seen importing more Northern Hemisphere wheat

Nov. 29, 2012 at 3:13 am CST

U.S. wheat up for seventh day on drought concerns

Nov. 28, 2012 at 8:45 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

Continued decline seen in Amazon forest destruction

Nov. 27, 2012 at 6:10 pm CST

Ont. winter wheat crop seen off to good start

Nov. 27, 2012 at 5:03 pm CST

The area planted to winter wheat in Ontario was significantly higher in 2012 than in 2011, according to an official with the province’s agriculture ministry. "Favourable weather, and the early completion of the soybean and corn harvest in Ontario, allowed producers to get in the fields early," said Peter Johnson, […]

By Dwayne Klassen

U.S. soy up on Brazil weather

Nov. 26, 2012 at 7:10 pm CST

U.S. soybean futures rose to their highest level in nearly two weeks on Monday as investors raised risk premiums amid concerns over dry weather in parts of southern Brazil, with prices extending their biggest weekly gain in three months. After the worst drought in half a century slashed the size […]

By kt-arasu

Manitoba to build more leeway into roads’ load limits

Nov. 23, 2012 at 5:24 pm CST

Seasonal highway load limits that govern when Manitoba farmers can move large loads of grain or livestock may soon be based more on the actual weather than on the calendar. The provincial government said Friday it will introduce amendments to its Highway Traffic Act allowing farmers and other businesses to […]

East-central Alta. watershed group takes aim at water quality issues

Nov. 12, 2012 at 3:20 pm CST

Water quality affects everyone, and that’s especially true in the Battle River watershed. "Unlike many other watersheds in Alberta that have headwaters in mountain regions, the Battle River watershed is Prairie fed and our headwaters are near 60 per cent of our population," said Sarah Skinner, watershed planning co-ordinator for […]

By Alexis Kienlen

USDA sees U.S. soy crop easing tight world supply

Nov. 9, 2012 at 7:26 pm CST

The U.S. soybean crop is much bigger than expected, helping to ease a worldwide supply squeeze, thanks to late-season rains that offset the impact of the worst drought in half a century, the U.S. government said Friday. In an report on crops around the world, the U.S. Agriculture Department raised […]

By Charles Abbott