Insights and Stories on Weather

Jan. 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm CST

The La Nina phenomenon may keep Texas and the southwestern U.S. mired in a prolonged dry spell and could aggravate the impact of the once-in-a-century drought which struck the area last year, a climatologist said Wednesday. "It should still be dry in that area," David Zierden, a state climatologist at […]

Jan. 3, 2012 at 11:23 pm CST

Canada’s Prairie farm belt is the driest it has been in five years, raising concerns for cattle and winter cereals in a region that has been recently more prone to floods. Large pockets of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have received less than 40 per cent of normal precipitation during the […]

By Rod Nickel

Dec. 23, 2011 at 9:27 pm CST

Facilities that handle bulk quantities of ammonium nitrate fertilizer but don’t yet have an environmental emergency plan will now have to come up with one. The product, in bulk form, is one of 41 substances that were added Wednesday to the federal Environmental Emergency Regulations, which call for development of […]

Dec. 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm CST

The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots rose in November, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department, surprising analysts, who attributed the increase to record-high cattle prices and a seven per cent pull back in corn prices last month. USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report on Friday showed placements up […]

By Theopolis Waters

Dec. 13, 2011 at 7:16 pm CST

Canadian Pacific’s gauges of service to grain shippers show visible gains so far in 2011 after a retooling of the railway’s grain operations, the company reports. Empty order fulfillment, a metric that highlights rail car availability, is up 19 per cent, or 11,000 units, in the crop year-to-date compared to […]