Insights and Stories on Weather

Stuck on Prairies in the springtime? Let us know

May. 17, 2011 at 10:04 am CDT

If you’ve tried to get past a washout or get a truck down a dirt road that looked dry at the time, we’d like to hear your cautionary tale. Springtime driving on the Prairies can often lead to a few extra minutes in the ruts, a truck of unknown colour, […]

Are you seeding yet? Let us know

May. 15, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Manitoba’s ranchers call on neighbours for help

May. 14, 2011 at 2:01 pm CDT

Manitoba’s goal to save homes in controlled spill zone

May. 12, 2011 at 10:59 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Floods to delay start of U.S. grain export season

May. 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Farmers in Manitoba spill zone to be compensated

May. 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm CDT

Farmers flooded by a controlled spill to prevent an uncontrolled blowout of Assiniboine River dikes will be compensated “fairly and swiftly and comprehensively,” according to Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers. “It’s a special case and it will be a special compensation package that we come forward with,” Struthers said in an […]

By Allan Dawson

Weeds added to Prairie herbicide combo’s label

May. 12, 2011 at 1:30 am CDT

A dual-action herbicide launched last year for use against broadleaf weeds in Prairie wheat and barley crops can go up against a couple of extra weeds this year. DuPont Canada’s crop protection wing on Tuesday confirmed a label expansion for Barricade — a combination of two Group 2 soluble granular […]

Manitoba Interlake ranchers face desperate situation

May. 11, 2011 at 11:57 pm CDT

Updated, May 12 — Cattle producers in Manitoba’s Interlake are frantically trying to move their herds out of the Lake Manitoba region this week after receiving emergency evacuation warnings because of rising flood waters. Producers in nearly a dozen municipalities around the lower basin of Lake Manitoba have been put […]

By Ron Friesen

Conditions raise concerns over fusarium on Prairies

May. 11, 2011 at 11:00 pm CDT

Wet conditions delaying seeding operations across Western Canada this spring could leave wheat crops more susceptible to fusarium if the moisture continues through the growing season. Fusarium head blight is a fungal disease that attacks cereal crops, especially wheat and barley. It is usually most prevalent in Manitoba and eastern […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

“Once in a lifetime” flood submerges U.S. farmland

May. 11, 2011 at 10:59 pm CDT

Nearly three million acres of farmland in three southern U.S. states have been submerged by flood waters from the raging Mississippi River and its smaller tributaries, adding to troubles in seeding this year’s crops in the world’s top grain exporter. Although the area constitutes one per cent land seeded with […]

By Karl Plume