Insights and Stories on Floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 5:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose nearly two per cent on Wednesday on poor weather in the Midwest soft winter wheat belt and the northern Plains spring wheat region, traders said. Soybean and corn futures closed modestly higher. Chicago Board of Trade May soft red winter wheat settled […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Mar. 15, 2019 at 7:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As experts forecast a spring flood to hit southern Manitoba, farmers in the Red River Valley won’t be caught off guard. Manitoba’s Emergency Measures Organization held flood preparedness seminars in Morris, Brandon, and Selkirk throughout the week of March 11. Topics covered included the forecast, flood outlook, preparedness […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Sep. 18, 2018 at 4:19 am CDT

Chicago/Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as flash floods collapsed the walls of at least two hog manure pits, made roads undriveable and delayed rail shipments. Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Florence, which has dumped up […]

By Lisa Baertlein, Tom Polansek

Mar. 17, 2017 at 7:40 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Cheap prices for feed and a softer Canadian dollar have helped keep Canadian hog prices aloft so far in 2017. “Right now producers are looking at $180 to $184 a pig,” said Andrew Dickson, general manger of Manitoba Pork. “Prices are looking pretty good for June, July, […]

By Dave Sims

Mar. 9, 2017 at 1:03 pm CST

Saskatchewan has raised its expectations for spring runoff across the board, now predicting “near normal” levels for much of the province and “above normal” to “well above normal” levels in its southeast. The province’s Water Security Agency on Thursday released a March spring runoff forecast pointing to two “areas of […]

By Staff