Insights and Stories on Prairies

May. 30, 2018 at 6:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell about two per cent on Wednesday on a mix of profit-taking following 10-month highs established a day earlier and improving weather forecasts for U.S. and Canadian spring wheat regions, analysts said. Corn futures hit a one-month low and soybeans followed the weak […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Apr. 30, 2018 at 9:53 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canada’s Prairies can expect to see regular rainfall in most regions during May, but it likely won’t be enough to offset dry conditions recorded over the past several months. According to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. in Kansas City, the first half of May should see […]

By Dave Sims

Apr. 3, 2018 at 8:18 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Corn prices across the Prairies have broken out of their long-held range, which should put cash in producers’ pockets, but it may not be enough to significantly increase seeding plans this spring. For much of 2017 and the early portion of 2018, corn prices in Western Canada […]

By Dave Sims

Mar. 8, 2018 at 4:02 pm CST

CNS Canada — After a winter spent waiting for snow, farmers across the southern Prairies were happy when the forecast was right and Western Canada received a late winter snowstorm. “We’ve heard moisture’s coming before and it doesn’t show up or it goes around us. So when it started snowing […]

Jan. 12, 2018 at 1:49 am CST

CNS Canada — Parts of the Sahara Desert received rare snowfall over the past week, with up to 40 cm falling in the Algerian desert town of Ain Sefra. That freak snow — only the third time in 40 years — made for some fantastic photographs before melting, but would […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin