Insights and Stories on Weather

Mar. 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm CDT

Prices for chickpeas in Western Canada have been moving higher over the past month, as global supplies of the specialty crop have taken hit with poor production around the world. “Around the world, chickpea crops have been a disaster,” said Colin Young, manager of R. Young Seeds at Mortlach, Sask. […]

By Brent Harder

Mar. 28, 2011 at 8:00 pm CDT

Off-patent ag chemical maker Mana Canada has picked up registration for a lower rate of application for preventive use of its Group 3 fungicide Bumper 418 EC. Bumper’s active ingredient, propiconazole, is best known in Syngenta’s Tilt 250E and is also the active in Viterra’s Propel and Ipco’s Pivot 418 […]

Mar. 28, 2011 at 4:58 pm CDT

Wet and cool conditions across the Prairies are expected to keep cattle producers buying feed barley, as their livestock will be headed out to pasture later than usual. Jim Beusekom, grain merchant with Marketplace Commodities at Lethbridge, Alta., said that for the time being at least, demand for barley should […]

By Brent Harder

Mar. 25, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

Manitoba cropland too wet to seed last spring, which didn’t get worked last year because it remained too wet, qualifies for Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) in 2011. Incorrect information appeared in a front page story on crop insurance in the March 17, 2011 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. EMI coverage […]

Mar. 24, 2011 at 4:30 pm CDT

A five-year, $26 million provincial incentive program for renewable diesel production in Saskatchewan will kick in next month, with a mandatory minimum renewable fuel requirement for diesel to follow 15 months later. The program, announced Wednesday as part of Saskatchewan’s 2011-12 provincial budget, will provide a grant of 13 cents […]