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Fields west of Brandon show new bare patches, areas that were underwater earlier this month.

Crop damage ranges after Westman floods

Cereals and soybeans seem to have mostly dodged drowning after flooding in the Westman area in late June and early July, but peas and some canola are struggling

By Alexis Stockford July 23, 2020

Two weeks after record rains hit the Brandon and Minnedosa regions, some low spots still had standing water. Overland flooding made for a dramatic picture from June 28 to July 1, with a string of storms bringing well over 200 millimetres of rain by official counts, and claims by some farmers near Rapid City and

Spring runoff flows through a control structure on the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie, Man. in 2014. (MarketsFarm photo by Glen Hallick)

Weather

Chances of flooding in Manitoba depend on weather

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 28, 2020

MarketsFarm — Manitoba has issued its spring thaw forecast of 2020 — with high water levels coming for the Red River. That’s due to significant soil moisture levels left over from the fall and above-normal snow levels in the river’s U.S. watershed. “Our focus is currently on the Red River, where we are expecting a

Weather

Wet fall raises risk of Manitoba spring flood

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 12, 2019

MarketsFarm — Manitoba’s Red River Valley is very wet heading into the winter freeze, but it’s still too early to say if the saturated soils will lead to flooding in the spring, according to provincial forecasters. The Manitoba government on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of opening the Red River Floodway, marking the first time

Livestock

Livestock producers receive tax relief for 2019

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff July 22, 2019

Drought in Western Canada and Quebec has prompted the federal government to release an initial list of regions eligible for livestock tax deferrals. The livestock tax deferral provision allows livestock producers in prescribed drought, flood or excess moisture regions to defer a portion of their 2019 sale proceeds of breeding livestock until 2020 to help

Water vapour imagery from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES East satellite on April 10, 2019 shows a powerful late-season winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and high winds to parts of the north-central U.S. Plains and the upper Midwest. Bright blue and white areas indicate high water vapour or moisture content. (Satellite map courtesy NOAA)

Crops, Weather

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 11, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota and one in Nebraska on

The AltEn ethanol plant at Mead, Neb. on March 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Markets, Weather

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

By GFM Network News, Jarrett Renshaw, Stephanie Kelly April 8, 2019

New York | Reuters — The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. The historic March floods have dealt a series of blows to large swaths of an ethanol industry that

Crops, Weather

ADM says U.S. floods to cut into Q1 operating profit

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 26, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Flooding and severe winter weather in the U.S. Midwest will reduce Archer Daniels Midland’s first-quarter operating profit by US$50 million to $60 million, the U.S. grains trader said on Monday. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the farm belt across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and several other states. The

Crops

Floods shut nearly a sixth of U.S. ethanol production

By GFM Network News, Humeyra Pamuk, Jarrett Renshaw March 22, 2019

Mead, Neb./New York | Reuters — Massive flooding in the U.S. Midwest has knocked out roughly 13 per cent of the nation’s ethanol production capacity, as plants in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have been forced to shut down or scale back production following the devastation. Production facilities owned by large companies like Archer Daniels

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up again on China swine fever fears

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume March 22, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied by their daily trading limits for a second straight day on Thursday on expectations that imports by China would surge as the country’s domestic hog herd is ravaged by a deadly hog disease. All hog contracts posted new contract highs and spot futures reached

CBOT May 2019 soft red winter wheat, with MGEX May 2019 spring wheat in orange. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat ends higher on weather worries

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen March 20, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rose nearly two per cent on Wednesday on poor weather in the Midwest soft winter wheat belt and the northern Plains spring wheat region, traders said. Soybean and corn futures closed modestly higher. Chicago Board of Trade May soft red winter wheat settled up 8-1/4 cents at $4.64-3/4

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Daily Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives floods — page 2

Crop damage ranges after Westman floods

Chances of flooding in Manitoba depend on weather

Wet fall raises risk of Manitoba spring flood

Livestock producers receive tax relief for 2019

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

ADM says U.S. floods to cut into Q1 operating profit

Floods shut nearly a sixth of U.S. ethanol production

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up again on China swine fever fears

U.S. grains: Wheat ends higher on weather worries

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