Insights and Stories on Weather

Jun. 27, 2011 at 11:30 pm CDT

Canadian Pacific Railway has shut a key cross-border track for up to 10 days because of flooding in Saskatchewan and North Dakota, dashing its hopes of putting a recent deluge of bad weather behind it. The company said Thursday the rapidly rising Souris River forced the shutdown on Monday night […]

By nicole-mordant

Jun. 25, 2011 at 4:15 am CDT

A tentative deal reached Friday between Saskatchewan’s provincial crop insurance corporation and its unionized staff was expected to see the workers end their strike as early as 1 p.m. The three-year deal, which still must be ratified in a worker vote and is also subject to Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.’s […]

Jun. 24, 2011 at 10:42 am CDT

Producers in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan have seen record amounts of rainfall this spring, causing record amounts of acres to go unseeded — and large amounts of fertilizer to go unused. Many producers who bought fertilizer were unable to use it because it was just too wet to get […]

By Brent Harder

Jun. 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm CDT

The record-sized area planted to canola in the Statistics Canada acreage report released early Thursday caught more than just a few individuals in the trade by surprise. “Even with flooding and excessively wet conditions for planting it was perceivable that canola area could have easily topped the 20 million-acre level […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Jun. 23, 2011 at 3:57 pm CDT

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is calling the province’s legislature back to work, to order striking crop insurance employees back to work. Wall said Thursday he has asked the legislature’s speaker, Moosomin MLA Don Toth, to formally recall the legislature for a Monday (June 27) sitting. Wall said in a release […]