Insights and Stories on Weather

AgriRecovery pledged following “extreme” B.C. weather

Jul. 13, 2011 at 2:02 pm CDT

Cattle, bison and vegetable producers in parts of British Columbia can expect up to $5 million from two AgriRecovery programs in the wake of floods, droughts and wildfires during 2010 through to this spring. The joint federal/provincial programs, pledged Tuesday in Vancouver, are to include a feed assistance and pasture […]

Rain-soaked Man. ranchers offered tax deferrals

Jul. 11, 2011 at 5:29 pm CDT

AAFC cuts wheat forecast, raises canola view

Jul. 6, 2011 at 5:02 pm CDT

Manitoba rolls out recovery plan for flood-weary farmers

Jun. 30, 2011 at 4:49 pm CDT

Nationwide biodiesel mandate to arrive Friday

Jun. 30, 2011 at 3:12 pm CDT

Agricorp extends insurance premium payment deadline

Jun. 28, 2011 at 11:18 am CDT

Ontario’s farm program delivery agency has spotted the province’s farmers an extra five days to pay their production insurance (PI) premiums. Agricorp on Tuesday said it would extend the deadline to July 15 from July 10. The mailing of PI invoices to producers was delayed due to the recent Canada […]

Floods add to Canadian Pacific’s weather woes

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

Sask. crop insurance staff back at work under tentative deal

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 […]

Waterlogged farmers getting charged for unused fertilizer

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

Canola area a surprise in StatsCan acreage report

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