Insights and Stories on Crop Development

WATCH: New report drops numbers on plant breeding ROI

Jul. 16, 2024 at 2:38 pm CDT

The report noted an internal rate of return of 14.9 per cent for the centre’s key stakeholders, producing a benefit-cost ratio of 10.8.

Alberta barley breeding centre relaunched

Mar. 22, 2024 at 2:15 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on crop development

Jun. 15, 2020 at 4:57 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

Canadian crop development behind average

Jun. 4, 2019 at 2:41 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Ontario, Manitoba corn crops need rain

Jul. 26, 2018 at 4:31 pm CDT

By Terry Fries

Forecast rain to cause few problems for Peace farmers

Sep. 12, 2017 at 6:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada — As rain threatens to disrupt harvest in parts of the Prairies this week and next, the Peace region of northwestern Alberta is attracting added attention. While rains are forecast to be fairly general across eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba over the next week or so, they are expected […]

By Terry Fries

Parched soils threaten canola, spring wheat

Jun. 7, 2017 at 12:08 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s western farm belt, dogged by excessive rain in some areas this spring, is now facing parched conditions in others, threatening wheat and canola crops, crop analysts say. A large area of southern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba has received less than 40 per cent of normal […]

By Rod Nickel

Severe weather causing problems for Manitoba crops

Jun. 27, 2016 at 7:06 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Manitoba was pummelled over the weekend with heavy rains, winds and even hail in some areas, leaving various crops around the province a little beat up. “It’s a little too early to say what the final impact will be, but crops that saw that severe weather system […]

By Erin DeBooy

Dry Prairies await timely rains

May. 27, 2015 at 6:41 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Mounting dryness concerns in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan are raising some concerns over crop development on the Prairies — but timely rains are in the forecast for early June. “The entire southern Prairie region hasn’t received normal rainfall for the last month to two months,” said […]

By Dave Sims Phil Franz-Warkentin