Insights and Stories on Weather

Facing green push on farm, fertilizer makers look to sea for growth

Jan. 21, 2021 at 2:10 pm CST

Winnipeg/Oslo | Reuters — Two of the world’s biggest fertilizer producers, CF Industries and Yara International, are seeking to cash in on the green energy transition by reconfiguring ammonia plants in the U.S. and Norway to produce clean energy to power ships. The consumption of oil for transportation is one […]

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

Jan. 14, 2021 at 6:41 pm CST

By Kate Abnett

Manitoba to consolidate and shut agriculture, MASC offices

Jan. 6, 2021 at 8:37 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Longer-range forecast points to warmer-than-normal winter

Jan. 4, 2021 at 8:36 pm CST

By MarketsFarm Team

New greening programs planned for ag alongside carbon tax hike

Dec. 14, 2020 at 8:12 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

AgriStability proposal could have hidden cost, Pedersen warns

Dec. 1, 2020 at 7:31 pm CST

Ottawa’s proposal for an improved AgriStability program could give farmers short-term gain for long-term pain, Manitoba’s agriculture minister Blaine Pedersen warns. At the online federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meeting on Friday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau proposed dropping AgriStability’s maximum reference margin, and increasing the compensation rate from 70 to […]

By Allan Dawson

Seasonal forecast calls for more snow

Dec. 1, 2020 at 4:38 am CST

MarketsFarm — Most of Canada should see above-normal snowfall over the next three months, according to updated seasonal forecasts released Monday from Environment Canada. Weather maps show a 40 to 60 per cent probability of more precipitation than normal across much of the country from December through February, with the […]

By MarketsFarm Team

StatsCan report to provide clarity on 2020 crop production

Nov. 30, 2020 at 7:44 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Market participants and producers will be looking to Statistics Canada’s principal field crop report, due out Thursday, for clarity regarding 2020 crop yields. “We’re looking to see how severely the heat damaged the crop, and how yield estimates were tempered later in the growing season,” said Jerry Klassen, […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Most of Prairies already covered in snow

Nov. 23, 2020 at 4:25 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Most of the Canadian Prairies were already blanked in snow by late November, with the deepest snowpack in Alberta and Saskatchewan, according to data compiled by Environment Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Aside from the Rocky Mountains and some areas around the Great […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Two more ‘murder hornets’ turn up on B.C. mainland

Nov. 11, 2020 at 2:48 am CST

Beekeepers in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland are asked to keep an eye out for so-called “murder hornets” after two were found in the region within a week. A single Asian giant hornet was found Saturday at Aldergrove, near the intersection of Fraser Highway and Highway 13 — […]

By Dave Bedard