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Manitoba crops see excess moisture, cooler temperatures

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 10

Fall rye stands are at the soft dough stage. Rapid advancement in winter cereal crop development continues and crop conditions are rated as good. Spring cereals continue to advance with earliest planted fields having moved into the flag leaf/head emergence stage. Soybean and dry bean crops are progressing at a slower pace given the cooler

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Prairie forecast: A slow slide into summer

Forecast issued June 26, covering June 26 to July 3, 2024

For a change, this forecast period starts of with weak high pressure in place across the Prairies. This brings a mix of sun and clouds and near-average temperatures. Any below-average temperatures are the thanks to the return flow behind the strong area of low pressure which, as predicted, tracked across the central and northern Prairies and brought all sorts of severe weather earlier this week.


From May 1 to June 9, Manitoba received 150 per cent of its normal precipitation.

We need to talk about resiliency

Metaphorical and actual storm clouds punctuate resiliency conversation

Volatile weather over farm fields in Manitoba punctuates conversation around resiliency both on farm and in policy-making halls of government.




AAFC drought risk map, June 2024.

Rainfall counts bring flood after famine

Spring rain has recharged groundwater, but Manitoba may also be in for a bad thunderstorm season

Precipitation in April and May has set Manitoba's groundwater situation on the road to drought recovery, but more severe storm clouds might also be on the horizon.






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Ukraine corn production seen falling this year

London | Reuters – Ukraine’s corn production and exports are expected to fall this year with yields set to fall after extreme heat while crops were sown in April, Mykola Gorbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) said on Wednesday. “During the planting time in April we had really hot weather,” he told the