Insights and Stories on Weather

La Nina set to continue for third year

Sep. 19, 2022 at 8:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With fall soon upon North America, there’s nothing overly unusual with the continuation of La Nina, according to Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. at Overland Park, Kansas. Going into its third year, some people might think this is the third consecutive La Nina — but Lerner […]

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Jack Graham

Ending stocks tumble due to drought: StatCan

Sep. 7, 2022 at 8:12 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairies’ high-pressure ridge should give way by mid-month

Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:26 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest, crop conditions pressuring prices

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:46 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

By Mubasher Bukhari

Initial drought list ready for 2022 livestock tax deferrals

Aug. 30, 2022 at 7:49 pm CDT

Many of the Prairie livestock producers forced by drought to make “difficult herd management decisions” in the 2022 income tax year are now eligible to defer the taxable income from those decisions. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday released the initial list of designated regions in Alberta, Manitoba and […]

By Dave Bedard

Canadian crop production bounces back, StatCan reports

Aug. 29, 2022 at 2:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — After 2021’s historic drought on the Prairies caused crop production to fall to historic lows, the 2022 harvest has mostly bounced back to pre-drought levels, according to Statistics Canada. StatCan on Monday released its July 2022 satellite image-based principal field crop production estimates, which confirmed analysts’ expectations that […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Greater crop production estimated prior to StatCan report

Aug. 25, 2022 at 8:00 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Analysts are expecting Canadian crop production totals for the 2022-23 marketing year to be substantially higher compared to drought-stricken 2021-22, but still not enough to fully replenish supplies. Statistics Canada (StatCan) will publish its first satellite image model-based yield and production estimates for principal field crops on Monday. […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

Aug. 24, 2022 at 6:34 pm CDT

Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, […]

By Amina Ismail Charlotte Bruneau