Insights and Stories on Weather

Weather and harvest update

Aug. 11, 2023 at 4:21 pm CDT

Glacier FarmMedia senior editor Gord Gilmour, and MarketsFarm’s director of weather and markets, Bruce Burnett, discuss their latest take on crop conditions, harvest operations and the weather.

Feed weekly outlook: Crop conditions, barley demand lower

Aug. 10, 2023 at 6:59 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Prairie Forecast: Cooler and unsettled

Aug. 9, 2023 at 6:34 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Pulse weekly outlook: Average yields expected for Manitoba crops

Aug. 8, 2023 at 7:08 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

How El Niño threatens emerging market economies

Aug. 4, 2023 at 10:32 am CDT

By Jorgelina do Rosario Libby George

Manitoba’s crops continue to hold up

Aug. 2, 2023 at 11:56 am CDT

MarketsFarm – Timely rains in Manitoba have kept the province’s crops in relatively good shape, according to the latest crop report. Manitoba Agriculture said precipitation as of Aug. 1 amounted to as much as 73 millimeters around Zhoda in the southeast to 13 mm at The Pas in the north. […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Prairie forecast: Warm-hot start then slow cooldown

Aug. 2, 2023 at 11:02 am CDT

The weather models have been doing a good job with the overall weather picture over the last several weeks, despite a fairly unsettled, tough-to-figure-out weather pattern. In this next forecast period, it will again be tough to figure out some of the finer details as our region experiences weak highs, […]

By Daniel Bezte

How corn responds to dry conditions

Jul. 28, 2023 at 4:39 pm CDT

It’s been a dry summer on many parts of Prairies, and if you’ve happened to be walking the fields in agro-Manitoba, there’s a good chance you’ve kicked up dust. Earlier in July at the Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Morgan Cott with the Manitoba Crop Alliance spoke to how the […]

Saskatchewan crops a mixed bag

Jul. 27, 2023 at 5:04 pm CDT

Marketsfarm – There was a wide mixture of the results in the latest crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Parts of the province were hobbled by drought conditions, while other areas received upwards to 40 millimetres of rain following a series of thunderstorms during the week of July 18 to 26. […]

By MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: canola market heading towards choppy waters

Jul. 26, 2023 at 4:48 pm CDT

Marketsfarm – While the recent gains in canola on the Intercontinental Exchange were likely generated by the spreaders, the market will probably become choppy, according to Ken Ball, trader with PI Financial in Winnipeg, Man. “Spreaders for the last few days have been selling canola and buying soyoil,” Ball suggested […]