Insights and Stories on Western Canada

Regulations, versatility pull hemp in different directions in West

May. 17, 2022 at 5:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Accounting for 60 per cent of Canada’s 1,100 cultivation licenses as of 2020, according to Health Canada, Western Canada is the country’s most important region when it comes to hemp production. But while there are more products on store shelves, more cultivars than ever before and high prices […]

Drought gone in Manitoba but worsening in Alberta, AAFC reports

May. 9, 2022 at 5:26 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Drought severity easing across much of Prairies, AAFC reports

Apr. 8, 2022 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Most of Prairies still very dry, but recovery possible

Mar. 11, 2022 at 7:08 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Weather factors influence calf prices

Feb. 22, 2022 at 3:10 am CST

By Jerry Klassen

Expect Prairie temperatures below normal until month’s end

Feb. 16, 2022 at 6:34 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The Prairie weather outlook for the rest of February is likely to remain below normal, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics in Winnipeg. “[But] not as cold as it has been for most of the winter,” he added. Much of January and February have been highlighted […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse stocks drop due to drought

Feb. 8, 2022 at 6:49 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s latest report on stocks of principal field crops clearly demonstrated how much of an effect last summer’s historic drought in Western Canada had on pulse crops. According to the report released Tuesday, last December’s total domestic stocks for dry peas, chickpeas, lentils and soybeans all declined […]

By Adam Peleshaty

La Niña introduces itself with Prairie cold snap

Jan. 7, 2022 at 9:43 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The frigid conditions which had enveloped the Prairie provinces in recent weeks is a sign La Niña has come again, according to a Kansas-based meteorologist. Since mid-December, the Prairies have been in a deep freeze beginning with temperatures at least 10 C below-normal. Since the holiday season, many […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Colder-than-normal Prairie winter forecast

Jan. 4, 2022 at 4:40 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Colder-than-normal temperatures are in the long-range forecast across Western Canada over the next three months, while much of Eastern Canada should be warmer. The latest seasonal forecast from Environment Canada, released Friday, calls for a 50 to 90 per cent chance of below-normal temperatures from January through March […]

By MarketsFarm

Prairie winter weather a sign of La Nina repeat

Nov. 30, 2021 at 9:30 pm CST

MarketsFarm — December marks the start of what meteorologists call “meteorological winter” — and this winter, the Pacific Ocean phenomenon known as La Nina may be rearing its head once again. La Nina (Spanish for “little girl”) is a climate pattern detected over the Pacific every few years where cooler […]

By Adam Peleshaty