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Prairie winter wheat conditions uncertain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 3, 2018

CNS Canada — While it’s too early to assess how the western Canada winter wheat crop fared this winter, there is some uncertainty due to unseasonably cold April temperatures. “We start losing cold tolerance, especially in March and going into April now. And that’s when you need to monitor temperatures or for (the crop) to

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Forecast: Well-below-average temperatures expected

Issued March 26, 2018: Covering the period from March 28 to April 4, 2018

By Daniel Bezte March 29, 2018

The first part of last week’s forecast played out pretty close to what the weather models predicted, with the main difference being how the various lows ended up tracking. For this forecast period, I hope the weather models are wrong, because it looks like we are going to begin April with a bit of a

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What does spring have in store for us?

If a long-range outlook covers a huge area, some place is likely to get that weather

By Daniel Bezte March 27, 2018

By an overwhelming amount, the No. 1 question I have had over the last couple of weeks is: What will the spring be like? While I usually wait until the end of the month to do the look-ahead forecast, I will use this article to go through each of the medium- and long-range forecasters to

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Forecast: Plenty of clouds and unsettled weather

Issued March 19, 2018: Covering the period from March 21 to March 28, 2018

By Daniel Bezte March 22, 2018

The general placements of the main weather features were handled well by the weather models during the last forecast period, but as usual, the devil was in the details. A persistent flow of dry air from the departing high last week allowed overnight temperatures to become fairly cool. This, combined with the fresh snowpack, helped

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Community to ‘transform’ Guelph’s Kemptville ag campus

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 19, 2018

The home municipality for Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) former Kemptville campus is set to remake the site as an “education and community hub.” The municipality of North Grenville, which includes Kemptville, about 40 km south of Ottawa, closed a deal in December to purchase the Kemptville ag campus, with the official transfer due to take

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March snowstorm bumps up snowpack

Compared to seasonal norms, Earth’s coldest spot last month was in northeastern Manitoba

By Daniel Bezte March 16, 2018

Almost one year later to the day, southern and parts of central Manitoba in 2018 saw another significant early-spring snowstorm. There were two big differences between this year’s storm and last year’s. First, this year’s storm began with milder temperatures. These milder temperatures made for a heavier, wetter snowfall. Combine this with the second difference,

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Forecast: Nice early-spring weather to continue

Issued March 12, 2018: Covering the period from March 14 to March 21, 2018

By Daniel Bezte March 15, 2018

Last week’s forecast played out fairly close to what weather models predicted, with a few minor exceptions. Western regions saw a little more cloud and occasional light snow last Wednesday and Thursday, while temperatures to start the week were a little cooler than forecast, thanks to a weak backdoor cold front that moved in from

Red River snow cover north of Winnipeg on March 11, 2018.

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Spring, the snowiest time of the year

Winnipeg, over its last 140 Marches, has seen 12 single-day snows of 20 cm or more

By Daniel Bezte March 13, 2018

From a meteorological perspective, winter has come to an end and spring is here. Winter is classified as the three-month period from December to February, and across parts of southern and central Manitoba this past winter turned out to be one of the driest winters on record. Looking at the three main reporting centres, Dauphin

A gaucho drives a carriage through the pampas (lowland plains), a primary farming and ranching region of Argentina. (CIA.gov)

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Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein March 12, 2018

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Hope has withered for any recovery in Argentine soy yields hit by a four-month drought that shows no signs of abating, farmers and analysts said Monday, prompting China to step in to fill the gap in soymeal exports from the world’s No. 1 supplier. The dryness that has blighted the

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Forecast: Quiet early-spring weather

Issued March 5, 2018: Covering the period from March 7 to March 14, 2018

By Daniel Bezte March 8, 2018

We saw a little bit of everything last week with spring-like temperatures late in the week followed by a complex storm system that brought a return to winter-like conditions to begin this week. For this forecast period, it looks like quiet weather will move back in after a very unsettled start to the week. Weak

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Weather

Prairie winter wheat conditions uncertain

Forecast: Well-below-average temperatures expected

What does spring have in store for us?

Forecast: Plenty of clouds and unsettled weather

Community to ‘transform’ Guelph’s Kemptville ag campus

March snowstorm bumps up snowpack

Forecast: Nice early-spring weather to continue

Spring, the snowiest time of the year

Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

Forecast: Quiet early-spring weather

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