Insights and Stories on Weather

It’s too soon to broadcast canola: CCC

May. 4, 2011 at 11:01 pm CDT

Mudding in or broadcasting canola seed won’t help you get the yield benefit you’d otherwise get from seeding early, the Canola Council of Canada warns. In its CanolaWatch newsletter Wednesday, the council grants that early-seeded canola does tend to produce higher yields, “but that performance edge depends on good seed […]

Red River to crest in Winnipeg this week

May. 4, 2011 at 4:03 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Durum growers get extension on cash advances

May. 3, 2011 at 4:43 pm CDT

Weather expert sees limited Prairie seeding opportunities

May. 3, 2011 at 12:30 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Good barley bids available, but activity slow

May. 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Soggy fields put northern U.S. farmers on tight deadline

Apr. 29, 2011 at 5:04 pm CDT

Incessant rains have turned Indiana farmer Larry Winger’s grain fields into ponds, making it impossible for him to seed his corn crop. “Historically, we would like the work to be done by the first of May, and research shows the optimal planting time is the last week of April,” said […]

By suzanne-cosgrove

Prairie seeding on hold until mid-, late May

Apr. 29, 2011 at 12:17 pm CDT

Producers in Western Canada continue to wait for favourable weather conditions to dry out fields enough to begin seeding operations, and while a few producers may be able to start some minor field preparations in the next week, the bulk of seeding is unlikely to begin until the middle or […]

By Dwayne Klassen

New-crop wheat up, old-crop down in CWB PROs

Apr. 29, 2011 at 8:59 am CDT

Wheat markets’ shift to weather-related issues have spurred futures to rise and carried wheat values with them in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest new-crop pool return outlook (PRO). Meanwhile, with supply and demand dynamics for the 2010-11 marketing year remain largely unchanged, wheat and durum values have slipped in the […]

“Massive” crop losses feared in U.S. South’s drought

Apr. 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm CDT

The worst drought in more than 40 years intensified across Texas over the last week, with high winds and heat causing “massive crop losses,” with little relief in sight, according to weather experts Thursday. A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said […]

By Carey Gillam

Manitoba sunflower acreage to plummet

Apr. 27, 2011 at 10:55 pm CDT

With many producers planning on seeding large amounts of canola and wheat this spring amid historically high prices, the crop that appears to be taking the largest hit in Manitoba because of this is sunflowers. In the 2011 planted area intention report from Statistics Canada released Tuesday, the government agency […]

By Brent Harder