Insights and Stories on Weather

Dec. 10, 2010 at 5:38 pm CST

All seed potatoes destined for planting in New Brunswick will need to be sent for post-harvest lab tests for a common spud virus, starting next year. “This proposal for legislative amendments is probably the single biggest thing that government can do to help the potato sector,” provincial Agriculture Minister Mike […]

Dec. 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm CST

The impact of unseeded acres and flooded-out crops in several parts of the Prairies hasn’t weighed much heavier on farmers’ loans, Farm Credit Canada reports. Despite the delayed harvest and lower production, the federal farm financing agency said Tuesday, the number of Nov. 1 loan payments recorded as past due […]

Dec. 7, 2010 at 6:15 am CST

New regulations restricting the use of pesticides on Nova Scotia’s lawns come April 1 will apply neither to farms, nor to residential vegetable or fruit gardens. The province on Monday released its Exceptions to Prohibitions on Non-essential Pesticides Regulations, which follow legislation passed in May to limit the use of […]

Dec. 18, 2009 at 12:00 am CST

Weaker market fundamentals and increased global production forecasts are pressuring wheats in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest 2009-10 pool return outlook (PRO). Meanwhile, "weather events" in Australia and recent demand from China have boosted the outlooks for malting-quality barley, the CWB reported Thursday. The board’s feed barley outlook remains unchanged […]

Sep. 15, 2009 at 12:00 am CDT

Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning plant scientist whose work on food crops linked agricultural productivity to stability in developing countries, died Saturday night at age 95. Texas A+M University, where he had held the title of Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture in the department of soil and crop sciences […]