Insights and Stories on Weather

CP expects winter woes to dent earnings

Mar. 23, 2011 at 1:54 pm CDT

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is warning shareholders its first fiscal quarter will see profits slip on the “severity and length of winter events on our operations.” The impact of recent weather events, combined with a “lag in fuel recoveries,” will have reduced diluted earnings per share (EPS) by about 40 […]

Late start seen for seeding on Prairies

Mar. 22, 2011 at 1:42 pm CDT

By Dwayne Klassen

Sask. launches spring flooding website

Mar. 21, 2011 at 3:22 pm CDT

Impending storm worsens Prairie flood risk, crop outlook

Mar. 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Yellow peas decline along with India frost fears

Mar. 21, 2011 at 2:56 pm CDT

By Brent Harder

Study seeks southern N.S. sites for ag development

Mar. 21, 2011 at 11:00 am CDT

An economic development agency in southern Nova Scotia plans to seek out areas in that part of the province suitable for “various agriculture developments.” The Shelburne Community Business Development Corp., based at Shelburne, about 210 km southwest of Halifax, will get over $220,000 in federal, provincial and municipal funds for […]

Japan millers missed major quake damage: CWB

Mar. 18, 2011 at 5:00 pm CDT

Japan’s flour millers appear to have avoided major damage from last week’s earthquake, but some eastern ports were hit, a Canadian Wheat Board official in Tokyo said Thursday. Derek Sliworsky, the wheat and barley exporter’s general manager in Tokyo, said the board is trying to speed loading of its vessels […]

Iraq plans $700M water plan to grow more wheat

Mar. 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm CDT

Major wheat importer Iraq plans to start an eight-year, US$700 million irrigation programme this year, part of a plan to increase wheat production by more than 60 per cent to three million tonnes. Popular anger at rising food prices has been an explosive ingredient in the mix of grievances that […]

By khalid-alansary

Man. livestock feed transportation program extended

Mar. 17, 2011 at 2:50 pm CDT

Manitoba livestock producers now have until the end of this month to get in on a program to help pay to haul feed to their animals, or to haul their animals to feed. The deadline to apply for the transportation component of the Canada-Manitoba Feed and Transportation Assistance Program (CM-FATAP) […]

By Allan Dawson

Corn, soy markets seen focusing soon on new-crop issues

Mar. 17, 2011 at 12:11 am CDT

Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade dropped sharply over the past week, as the earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis in Japan triggered a speculative sell-off in the agricultural commodity markets. Concerns that Japanese demand for grains and oilseeds will back away in the near term, […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin