Rain in mid-September has led to wheat sprouting problems in some Manitoba farm fields, jeopardizing wheat quality for some farmers who’d hoped for top dollar from this year’s crop.
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Manitoba farmers fight sprouted wheat after rain
Manitoba’s rainy streak in mid-September has led to some sprouting problems in unharvested wheat fields
2025 cereal harvest hits highs and lows in Manitoba
Oat harvest was complicated by heavy rain, while wheat yields so far are all over the map and depend on each area’s drought situation
Manitoba’s oat harvest was complicated by heavy rain, while wheat yields so far are all over the map and depend on each area’s drought situation.
More rainfall for Prairie farmers
As the atmosphere warms, farmers on the Canadian Prairies could see more heavy rainfalls
Heavy rain may become more common as the climate on the Canadian Prairies makes more of the storm types that produce it.
Weather school: Reasons for big rainfall on the Prairies
Heavy, severe rain needs a couple of conditions before farms in Western Canada get soaked
Heavy, severe rain events need a couple of conditions before farms in Western Canada get soaked: Moisture in the atmosphere is just one of them.
Warmer and wetter future for Prairie farms
Higher humidity and intense rainfall events are all but inevitable as the planet warms
Warming oceans and warming air translate to more humidity. For Manitoba farmers, greater availability of water vapour will make it more likely for precipitation events to tend to the extreme.
Manitoba seeding 12 points ahead of pace
Most spring wheat in the ground
Manitoba farmers pushed their spring planting to 57 per cent complete as of May 21, up 24 points from a week ago, the province's agriculture department reported.
Neither rain, snow, sleet or hail…
It can be tough to tell the various precipitation types from each other
Farmers on the Prairies can expect to see all types of precipitation in the spring and early summer, including snow, rain, sleet and hail.
Prairie rain is a cold rain
In our part of the world, most precipitation comes from cold clouds
On the Prairies most of our precipitation is derived from unique processes in cold clouds.
The drivers of extreme rainfall
A hotter atmosphere means more capacity to hold water, as recent events demonstrate
A hotter atmosphere means more capacity to hold water, as rainfall events on the Prairies in September 2024 demonstrate.
Rainfall and a warming planet
What a changing atmosphere means for extreme rain events
What a climate change means for extreme rain events on the Prairies
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