The length of the frost-free season right across the Prairies for 2025 turned out to be longer than average, weather expert Daniel Bezte reports.
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Frost-free season stretches out for most of Manitoba
The 2025 growing season was longer than average for most of the Prairies, despite an early brush with freezing temperatures in early September
Manitoba soybeans dodge frost damage
Frost hit large parts of Manitoba in early September, but wasn’t prevalent or long-lasting enough to cause concern for soybean fields
Frost hit large swaths of Manitoba in early September, but wasn’t prevalent or long-lasting enough to cause concern for soybean fields.
Frost damage hits Manitoba vegetable farms
Early frost had already drought-weary vegetable farms rushing to harvest in Manitoba in the second week of September
Early frost had already drought-weary vegetable farms rushing to harvest in Manitoba in the second week of September.
Ice and frost and a warming planet
The numbers show less sea ice and longer frost-free periods
Putting numbers to trends in the frost-free season.
USDA cuts Russian wheat crop estimate after damaging frosts
Chicago | Reuters – The U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its forecasts for Russian wheat production and exports on Wednesday, after Moscow declared federal emergencies over crop losses due to unfavourable weather. Increasing concerns about damage from drought and frosts in Russia, the world’s biggest wheat supplier, drove Chicago board of Trade wheat futures to 10-month highs in May
Understanding early and late frosts
It’s one of the biggest risks every growing season, and that risk is rising
Besides drought, frost probably has the greatest impact on agriculture. As any Prairie farmer knows all too well, untimely frosts can result in substantial losses and the length of the frost-free season restricts agricultural opportunities. Dates of the last spring or first fall frosts vary from year to year, but overall, they are relatively constant.
Early-spring and late-fall frosts
The Winnipeg area may see a record-long frost-free stretch this year
It’s time to talk about fall frost and the length of this year’s frost-free season. So far, most areas of agricultural Manitoba have not yet experienced frost – or have they? Data for major centres shows a number of locations came close to frost on Sept. 12, and I found 10 to 15 locations did
For cattle producers, the time to attack Canada thistle is now
A herbicide application after a hard frost can hit the noxious weed where it lives
Of all the weeds beef producers should focus on, Canada thistle is high on the list. Livestock avoid the prickly plant and it’s estimated to cost Canadian ag and forestry $7.5 billion in lost revenue annually. Fall control on pasture might be one of the most effective tools in stopping growth of the weed, said one industry
Planting seeds of lower frost risk in corn
New research could help breed frost-resistant corn
New research at the University of Saskatchewan aims to help breeders bolster corn’s resistance to environmental stressors. Corn, along with other warm-season crops, has been creeping its way into new regions of Canada previously thought unsuitable for the crop. That, according to researchers at the university, is the silver lining of climate change. At the
Early frosts in Argentina threaten drought-stricken soy, corn crops
Early frosts could hurt Argentina’s already beleaguered soy and corn crops in the south of the country’s main farming region, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said February 16 in a report. Argentina’s worst drought in six decades has already forced farmers to delay planting this season’s soy and corn crops, lowering expectations for the season’s
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