Insights and Stories on Weather

U.S. grains: Corn drops to three-week low

Jun. 23, 2020 at 4:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell for a second straight session on Tuesday and touched a three-week low on an unexpected rise in government crop condition ratings and favorable U.S. Midwest weather that was seen bolstering the recently planted crop. Soybean prices also eased, despite a decline in […]

Flea beetle damage ‘moderate’ across Prairies so far

Jun. 22, 2020 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn falls on good crop weather

Jun. 22, 2020 at 4:32 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Uruguayan shearers flown in to relieve sweltering Spanish sheep

Jun. 19, 2020 at 10:04 am CDT

By Juan Medina

U.S. grains: Wheat hits eight-month low as harvest advances

Jun. 17, 2020 at 3:46 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Corn trims gains on technical selling

Jun. 16, 2020 at 4:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures ended slightly lower on Tuesday after a day of positive trading after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported decreased crop conditions due to recent hot weather across the western corn belt. Wheat slid as winter harvests continue, while soybeans remained lower as […]

By Christopher Walljasper

No timeline yet set for BRM reforms

Jun. 12, 2020 at 8:42 pm CDT

Ottawa — Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has confirmed any reforms to business risk management (BRM) programs are being delayed. That confirmation came during a wide-ranging media availability Bibeau held Tuesday. In March, Tom Rosser, an assistant deputy minister at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), said the government is looking […]

By D.C. Fraser

ICE weekly outlook: Attention on weather after short-covering rally in canola

Jun. 10, 2020 at 8:34 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts have recovered off of lows hit at the beginning of the month, with speculative short-covering a feature as attention in the markets turns to North American growing conditions. While canola ran into some resistance Wednesday, there may still be more room to the upside. […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

More ‘murder hornets’ found in B.C., Washington

May. 29, 2020 at 10:25 pm CDT

Reuters/Staff — Officials in British Columbia and Washington state have confirmed new sightings of the Asian giant hornet, dubbed the “murder hornet,” indicating the invasive, predatory insect survived the winter in the Vancouver area and U.S. Pacific Northwest. The stinging hornet, whose queens can grow as large as 2-1/2 inches […]

By GFM Staff Reuters

El Nino, La Nina patterns not seen prevailing during summer

May. 28, 2020 at 4:30 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific remain neutral, meaning that neither El Niño nor La Niña weather patterns are prevailing, the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation said on Thursday. The El Niño pattern brings a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific […]

By Reuters