Insights and Stories on Harvesting

Saskatchewan Crop Report: Harvest continues amidst scattered storms

Aug. 22, 2024 at 3:48 pm CDT

Saskatchewan reported 15 per cent of its harvest was complete, compared to 21 per cent at this time last year, but higher than the five-year average of 13 per cent and the 10-year average of 11 per cent. In the southwest region, 29 per cent of its harvest was complete while the northwest region was only at one per cent complete.

Manitoba Crop Report: Harvest begins in earnest for most crops

Aug. 21, 2024 at 11:25 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Combine harvester working on a wheat crop at sunset

Combines making their rounds in Alberta

Aug. 16, 2024 at 4:02 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CNH enlists Sask. manufacturer for new windrower draper heads

Aug. 20, 2023 at 6:25 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. grains: Corn hits seven-week high on USDA’s surprise yield cut

Oct. 11, 2018 at 7:32 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Hourly employees in agriculture among lowest paid

Jun. 15, 2017 at 2:43 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Hourly-wage employees in agriculture and related production were among the lowest earners nationally, according to data from Statistics Canada. The agency on Thursday released data on wages paid to payroll employees in 2016. It reported the average hourly wage paid to full-time employees, excluding overtime pay, tips, […]

By MarketsFarm Team

ICE weekly outlook: Canola loses ground, could fall further

Nov. 2, 2016 at 4:06 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market declined on the week, and those losses are likely to continue, one Winnipeg-based analyst says. “This is going to be dominated by yesterday’s reversal in the canola, and the weather,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial Corp. Canola on Tuesday lost […]

By Jade Markus

Australia to hike tax on ‘backpacker’ workers

Feb. 26, 2016 at 1:23 pm CST

Sydney | Reuters — Australia is set to increase taxes on foreign travellers who work in the country, raising concerns from farmers that their supply of “backpacker labour” at harvest times may dry up and undermine Australia’s ambitions of being Asia’s delicatessen. Australian fruit exports are set to hit a […]

By Colin Packham

Measuring your harvest loss is the first step to managing it

Aug. 6, 2015 at 3:42 pm CDT

In a drought year like this one, when every bushel counts, the last thing a producer wants to do is to leave grain on the ground. But harvest loss — to the tune of up to five bushels an acre — is a costly problem for growers across the Prairies. […]

By Jennifer Blair