Weather News
Manitoba harvest stalled
September 25, 2018
Winnipeg – Cool and wet conditions stalled harvest progress across Manitoba during the week ended Sep. 24, according to the latest report from Manitoba Agriculture. Overall harvest progress across the province was pegged at 73 percent complete by the government agency, which was up by only two percentage points from the previous week. Snowfall hit […] Read more
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Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil yields look good, worries grow over peas
September 25, 2018
CNS Canada — It’s a mixed bag in many ways for Saskatchewan’s pulse crops this year, as a dry summer and late rains have meant different things for various crops. According to one industry expert, though, the overall picture doesn’t look bad. “I think overall, if you assess the entire […]
Today’s precipitation
September 25, 2018
Data and maps from weather stations across the Prairies are available to Glacier FarmMedia members at the WeatherFarm website, where you can also sign up for a daily forecast email for your area. On the go? Get the WeatherFarm mobile app, available for iPhone and Android devices. To learn more about the […]
Wet and cold weather slows harvest progress in Sask.
September 20, 2018
Winnipeg – Cool and wet weather stalled harvest progress in most of Saskatchewan, according to the provincial crop report released Sep. 20. Sixty-two per cent of the Saskatchewan crop is in the bin, which is ahead of the five-year average of 53 per cent. Twenty-six per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to […] Read more
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Farmers brace for what might again be another wet harvest season
September 20, 2018
Worries over another difficult harvest were running high in northern Alberta and B.C. last week as snow blanketed fields in the regions. Anywhere from five to 15 centimetres fell last week across both provinces, with the Peace River area taking the brunt of the snowfall. Many farmers were raising concerns about potentially facing another wet […] Read more
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Sunflowers look good overall, bumper crops for some
September 20, 2018
CNS Canada — Luc Remillard expects to be one happy farmer next week. He’s expecting to get into sunflower fields on land he farms with his father in Manitoba’s southern Red River Valley. “It’s right up there with any bumper crop that we’ve had the valley here,” he said. Remillard, […]
Ag News
Photo-finish election claims New Brunswick’s ag minister
September 25, 2018
New Brunswick’s incumbent agriculture minister is among the Liberal cabinet members knocked out of office in Monday night’s too-close-to-call provincial election. Final results from Elections New Brunswick put Progressive Conservative candidate Robert Gauvin ahead of Agriculture, Mines and Rural Affairs Minister Wilfred Roussel by a spread of 99 votes in […]
U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures sag after USDA data
September 24, 2018
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures declined on Monday, pressured by technical selling and bearish data in a monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture report released on Friday, traders said. USDA late on Friday reported the number of U.S. cattle on feed as of Sept. 1 at […]
Sobeys parent to buy fresh-food grocer Farm Boy
September 24, 2018
The owner of the Sobeys and Canada Safeway chains has a deal in place to buy southern Ontario grocery retailer Farm Boy, a well known patron of the region’s producers. In a deal still subject to review by the federal Competition Bureau, Empire Co. announced Monday it will pay $800 […]
Bayer’s Monsanto asks U.S. court to toss $289 mln glyphosate verdict
September 22, 2018
Bayer AG unit Monsanto on Tuesday asked a California judge to throw out a $289 million jury verdict awarded to a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, gave him cancer. The company said in motions filed in San Francisco’s Superior Court of California that the jury’s decision was insufficiently supported by the evidence […] Read more
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U.S. soy increases pull up canola
September 21, 2018
Winnipeg – The ICE Futures canola platform chopped around for much of Friday’s session before ending with small gains. Traders were squaring positions before the weekend. Advances in U.S. soyoil pointed the way higher for canola. Concerns over frost in Australian canola fields and a smaller European rapeseed crop helped boost values. However, canola’s front-month […] Read more
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Argentina bets on $600 million satellite to boost agriculture sector
September 21, 2018
BUENOS AIRES, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Argentina is launching a new microwave imaging satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture, in a long-term bid to bolster the farm sector, an industry that has historically been the backbone of the country’s economy. Scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base […] Read more
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