Insights and Stories on Weather

Man. farmers looking at corn, weather still key

Apr. 18, 2011 at 5:41 pm CDT

The ongoing “fight for acres” in the U.S., attempting to bring in more corn plantings, has also spilled north of the border, with Manitoba corn growers looking to increase their area of the profitable crop as well. However, corn needs a long growing season, and wet conditions now seen across […]

Prairie seeding seen 10 days to three weeks behind

Apr. 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Cattle ease up on the gas in winter, study finds

Apr. 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm CDT

By Daniel Winters

CWB winter rail program nears finish line

Apr. 15, 2011 at 11:30 am CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Red River crest lowered, but flood among largest

Apr. 15, 2011 at 11:02 am CDT

Prairie flooding delays seeding two weeks so far

Apr. 13, 2011 at 5:31 pm CDT

Farmers in flooded Western Canada look to plant at least two weeks later than normal as average to heavy snowpack melts on saturated fields and causes rivers to overflow. The most optimistic scenario would see farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta, the two biggest producers of wheat and canola, start planting […]

By Rod Nickel

Barley cash bids edge higher

Apr. 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm CDT

Feed barley bids in the key Lethbridge, Alta. feedlot zone are trending higher, but ample feed wheat supplies should limit the potential upside. Seasonal issues were behind the firmness, as road bans and the fact that farmers will soon be turning their attention to spring seeding helped underpin barley bids, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Quebec budgets $10M to showcase ag “multifunctionality”

Apr. 13, 2011 at 12:08 pm CDT

Projects that provide benefits both to Quebec’s farms and their surrounding communities will share a new $10 million pot of provincial funding. The Quebec ag ministry (MAPAQ) on Monday announced a four-year pilot program designed to support development of “multifunctionality” in the province’s ag sector. Multifunctionality — a concept that’s […]

CFIA widens radiation testing, includes B.C. milk

Apr. 8, 2011 at 6:03 am CDT

Canada’s sampling and testing regime for radiation from Japan’s nuclear crisis has been expanded to include domestically-produced milk from British Columbia along with food products imported from Japan. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency emphasized in a statement Wednesday that it has yet to detect related radionuclides — atoms or atomic […]

Ontario winter wheat sees acreage increase

Apr. 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm CDT

After the price of wheat shot up in the summer of 2010, many producers in Ontario locked in contracts and as a result, the province has seen an increase in winter wheat acreage this year. Peter Johnson, winter wheat specialist with the provincial ag ministry (OMAFRA) in Guelph, said one […]

By Brent Harder