Insights and Stories on Weather

CN to shorten trains during ‘extreme cold’ snap

Jan. 17, 2012 at 12:05 am CST

Expected "extreme cold weather conditions" over the next five or six days may cut into transit times for goods moving on Canadian National Railway (CN) track. In an advisory to shippers on Monday, CN listed specific corridors that could be affected including track from Winnipeg to Edmonton; from Toronto to […]

N.B. potato growers get extension on APP repayments

Jan. 14, 2012 at 7:34 pm CST

Crop Week: Canadian wheat watching world weather

Jan. 13, 2012 at 11:20 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sask. proposes halt on spreading domestic sewage

Jan. 13, 2012 at 5:30 am CST

No extra tax for Ont. farms’ small-scale power plants

Jan. 5, 2012 at 11:27 pm CST

Alta. feed barley values slip on warm weather

Jan. 5, 2012 at 6:22 pm CST

Feed grain prices have fallen slightly in southern Alberta’s cattle feeding region in the past month. Warm winter temperatures have contributed to a steady downward price slide in feed barley values. However, a cold snap or possible drought conditions later on as spring starts could move prices upward. Lethbridge feed […]

By Adam Johnston

La Nina-inspired dry spell may plague U.S. southwest

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 […]

Dry winter on Prairies a worry for cattle, winter wheat

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

Ammonium nitrate added to emergency regulations list

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 […]

Cattle placement in U.S. feedlots takes surprise jump

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