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Forecast probability of above- or below-normal temperatures for the period from May 29 to June 26, 2023. Map issued May 25, 2023. (Map: Environment Canada)

A hot, dry Prairie June ahead

El Nino pattern could arrive

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 31, 2023

MarketsFarm — June is expected to see a continuation of the hot and dry weather most of the Canadian Prairies has experienced in May, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics. “It looks like late spring/early summer is pretty hot across almost all of Western Canada. The Prairies are all above normal [temperature-wise],” Kehler

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas seeing good Prairie movement

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 1, 2023

MarketsFarm — Peas are seeing good movement in Western Canada ahead of spring, although prices have held steady over the past month. “The yellow pea market has some life again,” said Allan Johnston of Johnston’s Grain at Wellwyn, Sask. He added there were also a few companies chasing after some coverage for green peas with

Highest temperatures over the seven-day period ending Jan. 23, 2023. (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Weather

Prairies’ warmer spell to be usurped by arctic front

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 24, 2023

MarketsFarm — While the Prairies have so far this month experienced rather non-January-like temperatures, a cold front coming south from the Arctic will soon descend on the region, according to Scott Kehler, president and chief scientist of Weatherlogics in Winnipeg. “What we are seeing is a big change in the weather pattern. For most of

Yellow peas. (Victoria Popova/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: New Year’s pressure drags on North Dakota peas

Pea prices relatively higher north of border

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2023

MarketsFarm — Pea prices in North Dakota have been feeling pressure from the New Year, according to Landon Lechler of Beach Co-operative at Beach, N.D., about 360 km south of Weyburn, Sask. Besides the turning of the calendar New Year, Lechler said the upcoming Chinese New Year has slowed export demand for yellow and green

Weather

Environment Canada sees ‘average’ Prairie winter ahead

By GFM Network News, Marketsfarm December 2, 2022

MarketsFarm — An ‘average’ winter is in the forecast for most of the Canadian Prairies, according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast for December through February from Environment Canada, released Wednesday. The government department is calling for normal temperatures across all the agricultural areas of the three Prairie provinces — aside from the northernmost reaches

File photo of a snow-topped field in Alberta. (Don White/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

Cold, snowy start seen to Prairies’ winter

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2022

MarketsFarm — Although the official calendar start to winter isn’t until Dec. 21, conditions on the Canadian Prairies are now winter-like, according to Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler. “For the month of November, it looks like we’re off to a cold start for most of the Prairies. The western Prairies… had quite a significant winter

Crops, Markets

Farmers’ wheat, canola deliveries picking up in West

Commercial canola stocks increase

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 17, 2022

MarketsFarm — The advancing Prairie harvest has seen an increase in farmer deliveries of grains and oilseeds into the commercial pipeline, according to the latest weekly data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Export activity for canola remains very light through the first six weeks of the 2022-23 crop year, but growing supplies in the commercial

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain bids see surprising harvest strength

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 15, 2022

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in Western Canada have shown some strength in recent weeks, despite the advancing harvest. “We’ve been seeing a rally through harvest, which is an odd thing,” grain merchant Jay Janzen of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. said. He tied the unseasonable strength to solid demand and a lack of significant

File photo of wheat south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Weather

Prairies’ high-pressure ridge should give way by mid-month

Brisk harvest pace expected meanwhile

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 6, 2022

MarketsFarm — While there’s not one specific cause of the hot September the Canadian Prairies has generally been having so far, Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler notes one particular shorter-term factor. “There is a fairly strong upper-level ridge of high pressure across the Prairies right now,” he explained, adding it should dissipate by mid-month. The

A hemp plant in Alberta. (Jennifer Blair photo)

Crops

Regulations, versatility pull hemp in different directions in West

Crop 'still struggling with reaching its full potential'

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News May 17, 2022

MarketsFarm — Accounting for 60 per cent of Canada’s 1,100 cultivation licenses as of 2020, according to Health Canada, Western Canada is the country’s most important region when it comes to hemp production. But while there are more products on store shelves, more cultivars than ever before and high prices for the crop, demand for

Daily Network News

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A hot, dry Prairie June ahead

Pulse weekly outlook: Peas seeing good Prairie movement

Prairies’ warmer spell to be usurped by arctic front

Pulse weekly outlook: New Year’s pressure drags on North Dakota peas

Environment Canada sees ‘average’ Prairie winter ahead

Cold, snowy start seen to Prairies’ winter

Farmers’ wheat, canola deliveries picking up in West

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie grain bids see surprising harvest strength

Prairies’ high-pressure ridge should give way by mid-month

Regulations, versatility pull hemp in different directions in West

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