Insights and Stories on Weather

Parched farms in B.C. Peace to keep tax status

Jan. 5, 2011 at 12:26 pm CST

Drought-ridden farms in British Columbia’s Peace River region that fall short of minimum production and income requirements will still be considered farms for tax purposes. The B.C. government announced Tuesday it will waive the farm income and production requirements for the 2011 property assessment roll in that specific region, which […]

Assiniboine Valley farms get expanded flood fund

Dec. 23, 2010 at 5:47 pm CST

Soaked Man. ranchers to get feed, trucking aid

Dec. 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm CST

Peace-area farmers get break on pumping rentals

Dec. 15, 2010 at 5:50 pm CST

N.B. to order post-harvest testing on seed potatoes

Dec. 10, 2010 at 5:38 pm CST

Prairie farm loan adjustments par for weather: FCC

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 […]

N.S. to limit pesticides on lawns, not vegetables

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 […]

Wheats up, malt barley down in PROs

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 […]

Green revolution pioneer Norman Borlaug, 95

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 […]

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