Brown cattle for sale at gladstone manitoba auction market 2025. Photo: Greg Berg

Manitoba cattle prices April 14

Manitoba’s major livestock auction marts continued to move cattle through the sales ring between April 8-14, 2026.

Here are the prices Manitoba beef and other cattle producers could expect to take home from the sale of their livestock April 8-14, 2026.

Young corn plants growing in rows on severely cracked, dry soil under a blue sky with scattered clouds. Photo: taglass/iStock/Getty Images

Forecasters flag ‘eye-popping’ El Nino with major implications for global crop production

A European weather model is forecasting one of the strongest El Nino events on record, with potential to trigger drought in India, Indonesia and Australia while boosting moisture across the Americas — and the timing could affect Canadian pulse and grain markets heading into 2026-27

Forecasters are flagging a potential record-strength El Nino that could reshape global crop production and trade flows heading into 2026-27 marketing year.





Oil tankers sail near the Strait of Hormuz as tensions between the U.S.-Israeli coalition and Iran disrupt shipping routes for energy and fertilizer. Photo: Reuters/file

Fertilizer prices are spiking — here’s what Manitoba farmers need to know before seeding

The Iran war has thrown global nitrogen supply into chaos, but farm management specialist Darren Bond says cold, hard numbers — not fear — should drive your spring decisions

Fertilizer prices have jumped nearly 30 per cent since the Iran conflict intensified in late February. Manitoba Agriculture's Darren Bond says detailed cost-of-production planning is the best way farmers can manage the risk heading into seeding.