Insights and Stories on Weather

Don’t drive across flooding roads

Apr. 19, 2011 at 5:42 am CDT

The only sure way for drivers not to drown when crossing flooded rural roads is not to cross them, says Gordon Giesbrecht, associate dean at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation. Even if a road isn’t washed out — something drivers can’t see — it takes just […]

Pioneer to breed LibertyLink canolas, Bayer to try juncea

Apr. 19, 2011 at 5:22 am CDT

Man. farmers looking at corn, weather still key

Apr. 18, 2011 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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

The Canadian Wheat Board’s winter rail program is on target to meet export expectations made in the fall, according to a CWB official. The CWB’s winter rail program transports grain from Western Canada and already-stored supplies at Thunder Bay, Ont. to eastern export facilities while the Great Lakes and St. […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Red River crest lowered, but flood among largest

Apr. 15, 2011 at 11:02 am CDT

Flood fighters patrolled strained levees on a Red River tributary and an old dam on a northwest North Dakota river on Thursday as forecasters reduced the projected crests in Grand Forks and north of the border, in Manitoba. The Red River is rising to near record highs as snow melts […]

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, […]