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Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpea prices rise amid tight supplies

Nov. 15, 2022 at 6:50 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Chickpea prices in Western Canada are on the rise due to tight supplies, according to one trader. Prices for Kabuli chickpeas rose five cents per pound from last month, with high-delivered bids ranging from 40 cents/lb. for the seven-millimetre variety to 55.5 cents/lb. for 10-mm, according to Prairie […]

Shallow Mississippi River expected to persist as dry winter hits U.S. South

Oct. 20, 2022 at 6:46 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Klassen: Uncertain fed cattle market weighs on feeder cattle

Oct. 18, 2022 at 4:37 am CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. winter wheat growers seed into dust as Plains drought persists

Oct. 17, 2022 at 5:53 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Drought-stricken B.C. bracing for floods when rains return

Oct. 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm CDT

By Nia Williams

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan’s pulse harvest seen as average

Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:03 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As the harvest in Saskatchewan wraps up for 2022, pulse specialist Dale Risula said pulse crops were quite good this year — a definite improvement over last year’s drought-stricken production. “Overall for the province we will likely see average production this year, although some areas suffered pretty badly,” […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Manitoba to cut Crown forage lease rates

Sep. 29, 2022 at 7:53 pm CDT

The rents paid by Manitoba producers using Crown lands to produce perennial forages will be cut in half next year and by smaller amounts the following two years. Provincial Ag Minister Derek Johnson on Wednesday announced the forage lease rent on agricultural Crown land will be reduced by 50 per […]

By Dave Bedard

Ending stocks tumble due to drought: StatCan

Sep. 7, 2022 at 8:12 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Severe drought in Western Canada during the summer of 2021 has played a major part in reducing the stocks for Canada’s principal field crops at the end of the 2021-22 marketing year, according to Statistics Canada. Canada’s central data agency released a report Wednesday presenting total ending stocks […]

By Adam Peleshaty

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

Sep. 6, 2022 at 6:26 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — While there’s not one specific cause of the hot September the Canadian Prairies has generally been having so far, Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler notes one particular shorter-term factor. “There is a fairly strong upper-level ridge of high pressure across the Prairies right now,” he explained, adding it […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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