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Jasper fires force trains to go slow

CN has resumed service but at a reduced speed through the area

By Karen Briere July 26, 2024

The Canadian National Railway line through Jasper, Alta,. is open, but trains are moving slowly due to the wildfire that destroyed a significant part of the community this week. The implications for grain movement are unknown, but unloads are already down at the port of Vancouver.

A helicopter dumps water on a forest fire in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Photo: Thinkstock

News, Other, Weather

Canada forecasts hotter-than-average summer as peak wildfire season nears

By Nia Williams June 11, 2024

Reuters – Canada is expecting a hotter-than-usual summer with slightly below-average precipitation in central Canada, government officials said on Tuesday, offering little relief from ongoing drought and the risk of another bad wildfire season. Last year, Canada experienced its worst-ever fire season, with more than 6,600 blazes burning 15 million hectares, an area roughly seven

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Smoke and weather a complex topic

It can either limit or enhance rainfall, depending on climatic conditions

By Daniel Bezte June 5, 2024

When I started my yearly review of severe summer weather, we had smoke from forest fires across the Prairies. Then some annoying upper lows affected our weather, bringing cool and wet conditions, so I wrote about that. Now that is time to write about forest fire smoke, it is no longer an issue, hopefully for

Canada’s fire season is expected to begin earlier and last longer this year.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Canadians left high and dry on water management issues

Federal budget 2024 misses the mark on water-related investments

By David Barrett, Kerry Black May 6, 2024

Canadians are worried as they look ahead to summer. Forest fires in British Columbia are expected to begin earlier and last longer this year and the Prairies are still expecting continued drought. Other Canadians are also bracing for or are already experiencing extreme flood conditions. In the lead-up to the federal government’s 2024 budget, there

A cow stands near a spot fire fueled by high winds near Canadian, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2024.

International news, News

Texas wildfires destroy grain and cattle

By Reuters, Tom Polansek March 8, 2024

Chicago | Reuters – Wildfires in the Texas Panhandle destroyed grain in storage bins and likely killed tens of thousands of livestock, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said Feb. 29. One blaze, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek fire, is the largest in Texas history. Grazing lands covered with years of grass that are helped fuel the

Several studies on shading have showed reductions in corn yield when solar radiation is reduced at various growth stages.

Crops

How is corn impacted by wildfire smoke?

Digging into how wildfire smoke affects corn crops

By Don Norman March 5, 2024

Occasional plumes of smoke from distant wildfires may affect human comfort but how does a smoke-obscured sun and poor air quality affect crops? “This has been a big topic of conversation where I work in the state of Indiana,” said Dan Quinn, an assistant professor of agronomy and extension corn specialist at Purdue University. He

News

Fire risk rages Down Under

Australia declares El Niño as heat wave sparks bushfire concerns

By Renju Jose October 2, 2023

Strong winds and a rare, intense heat wave early in the Southern Hemisphere’s spring fanned dozens of bushfires across Australia’s southeast in the second-last week of September. Authorities issued extreme fire danger warnings Sept. 20 for the greater Sydney region, home to more than five million people. More than 600 firefighters and emergency personnel were

Water flows through a washed-out culvert on the CN rail mainline at Truro, N.S. on July 23, 2023. (Photo: Nigel Gloade/Millbrook First Nations/Handout via Reuters)

Weather

Nova Scotia farmers granted late AgriStability entry

Enrolment for 2023 now an option until Dec. 31, 2024

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 12, 2023

Nova Scotia farmers who aren’t in on AgriStability for 2023 and whose operations were hit hard by weather events this spring and/or summer now have until the end of next year to enroll. The Nova Scotia and federal governments on Friday announced enrolment for the ag income stabilization program, which ended on April 30, has

Beef cattle, Columns

Smoke inhalation can affect cattle

Research shows an effect in housed dairy cattle so outdoor beef animals are surely affected too

By Roy Lewis August 25, 2023

Wildfires have exceeded all records in the 2023 season. Both British Columbia and Alberta are expected to see more than two million hectares destroyed. There has been steady growth in the number and size of wildfires since the 1980s. Drought, global warming and storms are generally the culprits and there has been plenty of smoke

A climate change activist plays a violin in New York City’s Times Square as Manhattan is shrouded in haze and smoke which drifted south from wildfires in Canada, on June 7, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Maye-E Wong)

Weather

Climate change made Quebec wildfires twice as likely, scientists say

Early snow disappearance led to earlier fires

By GFM Network News, Gloria Dickie August 22, 2023

London | Reuters — The fires that tore through the province of Quebec between May and July were made at least twice as likely by climate change, scientists said on Tuesday. Climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, also made the fires as much as 50 per cent more intense, according to the

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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