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Not Enough Snow In The High Country

By David Ljunggren June 10, 2010

Alarmingly low snow levels in the Rocky Mountains will cut water supplies to Canada’s Prairies and could help trigger a river drought in the important farming region, a leading expert said May 27. The predictions by University of Saskatchewan hydrologist John Pomeroy were particularly gloomy, given that 2009-10 was a record dry winter for the

Crops, Oilseeds

New Canola Hybrids

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 6, 2010

DEKALB has received registration on six new canola hybrids from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The new 73 Series will be available on a limited basis this spring with wide distribution planned for the 2011 growing season, the company announced in a release. “With the introduction of our new 73 Series, DEKALB brand now

Cereals, News

2010 Weather To Parallel Last Year’s: Weather Expert

By Ron Friesen March 4, 2010

The weather outlook for this summer: much the same as last year. Dry conditions currently prevailing in the western Prairies could ease later this spring, giving way to timely rains and a cool summer, a U. S. weather analyst said during last week’s annual Grain World conference in Winnipeg. That would be similar to the

Cereals, Crops

Everest GBX Offers One-Pass Weed Control

March 4, 2010

Everest GBX, when combined with the grower’s choice of phenoxy, controls more weeds better than any other single product on the market today, Arysta LifeScience says in a release. Weeds like buckwheat, cleavers and kochia along with other yield robbers like flushing wild oats and green foxtail can be silenced in one pass. “The advantage

Crops

Weather Will Get Better

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 25, 2010

Western Canadian farmers can expect to head into the 2010 growing season facing similar weather-related problems as they did in the past year, with dryness persisting in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the potential for flooding in southern Manitoba, said Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. at the annual Canadian Wheat Board Grain World

Cereals, Crops, News

Winter Wheat Conditions Variable

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 18, 2010

Conditions for the winter wheat crops across Western Canada are variable, but relatively decent overall, according to industry sources. Western Canadian farmers in the three Prairie provinces planted 650,000 acres of winter wheat this past fall, according to Statistics Canada data. That compares with 1.21 million acres the previous year. Due to the late harvest

News

Warm, Wet Summer On The Way

By Rod Nickel January 21, 2010

Canadian farmers who pulled off some big high-quality crops last year despite volatile weather appear to be in line for a warmer, wetter summer, said David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, Jan. 11. “That’s a pretty good-news situation,” Phillips said in an interview with Reuters. “I think most farmers would go to the bank

News, Weather

Briefs continued…

September 3, 2009

Interlake shows holes in safety nets: Farm safety net programs such as the federal/provincial AgriStability plan have proven ineffective against multi-year “back-to-back disasters” as seen in Manitoba’s Interlake this summer, according to Keystone Agricultural Producers. Some farmers in the already-waterlogged region were hit with another major storm Aug. 24 that reportedly dropped up to another

Cereals, Crops, News

Frost Threatens Late-Developing Prairie Grain Crop

By Ron Friesen August 6, 2009

The threat of an early and devastat ing frost hangs over the western Canadian grain industry as anxious farmers hope for warm weather in August to ripen seriously delayed crops. Nearly all of the Prairie grain region has experienced much below-normal temperatures so far this growing season, putting crops two to three weeks behind their

Cereals, News

Seeding Delay Concerns Emerge In Western Canada

By Dwayne Klassen April 23, 2009

Cool temperatures combined with wetter-than-normal weather have caused some concern about seeding delays in Western Canada, but industry participants aren’t pushing the panic button yet. “Right now seeding operations in Western Canada are looking as though they are one week behind,” Mike Jubinville, an analyst with the farmer advisory service ProFarmer Canada said. He indicated

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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