Insights and Stories on Weather

Across Canada in a farmhouse: New Norway to Calgary

Aug. 17, 2012 at 1:18 pm CDT

If you’re ever in the Camrose, Alta. area and plan to drive south, don’t bother with the main highway (the QE2). Don’t get us wrong, Highway 2 is just fine, especially if you’re in a hurry. However, the really beautiful countryside is east of the main route, along Highways 21 […]

Hot, dry weather to limit Ontario corn yields

Aug. 16, 2012 at 5:59 pm CDT

By ryan-kessler

Wet weather to delay Prairie harvest

Aug. 16, 2012 at 12:30 am CDT

By Terryn Shiells

VIDEO: The right time to spray for fusarium

Aug. 15, 2012 at 11:01 pm CDT

Canola yield estimates wide-ranging across West

Aug. 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm CDT

By ryan-kessler

Prairie sunflowers flourishing despite heat, pests

Aug. 15, 2012 at 1:18 pm CDT

Recent hot and dry weather has put some stress on western Canadian sunflowers as they finish flowering — but the weather conditions have also minimized threats from disease and pests, making the crop outlook very good for 2012-13 confection and oil sunflowers, according to one agronomist. "The issues caused by […]

By ryan-kessler

Alta. harvest work seen picking up steam

Aug. 15, 2012 at 5:35 am CDT

Favourable weather and the quick maturation of crops have producers in Alberta preparing harvest equipment, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Swathing of some canola, wheat and barley crops is now underway in the province, while combining of lentils, peas and chickpeas was well underway and nearing completion in select […]

By Dwayne Klassen

VIDEO: Weatherproofing your crop rotation

Aug. 15, 2012 at 4:41 am CDT

Each year, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives and the University of Manitoba host a Crop Diagnostic School at the U of M’s Ian M. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. Farmers and agronomists can attend the one-day hands-on school, which runs for two weeks in July. This year, Crops Guide […]

CropChatter: When to start swathing canola?

Aug. 14, 2012 at 5:45 pm CDT

CropChatter.com, a new website providing free crop-management advice from some of Manitoba’s top agronomists, offers advice on that question HERE. For more information on CropChatter, click here. Related story:Crop management website coming for Man. farmers, Aug. 10, 2012

U.S. drought may create winners, losers on Bay Street

Aug. 14, 2012 at 9:36 am CDT

While U.S. crops of corn and soybeans wilt in the worst U.S. drought in a half century, winners and losers are emerging in the agriculture sector of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), even if investors are playing it cautious so far. The drought in the key Midwest growing region has […]

By Rod Nickel