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Thick smoke from northern fires can be seen in the distance while an older seeder and a steel grain bin are visible in the foreground.

Wildfires have unexpected upside this year

Smoke from this year’s wildfires helped counter extreme heat and scorching sun, benefitting the Prairie canola crop

One farmer feels smoke from nearby wildfires shrouded the July skies and protected his crop from the sun’s burning rays, resulting in more seeds per pod and more pods per plant.



A tractor kicks up dust as it pulls a seeder planting winter wheat with an old barn and some pine trees in the background.

Seeding conditions look good for U.S. winter wheat crop

Conditions are particularly favourable in Kansas, the top hard red winter wheat producer

SASKATOON — Seeding conditions are near ideal in the hard red winter wheat growing region of the United States, says a weather expert. “It is really very good,” said Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. “We’ve had a good alternating pattern of rain and sunshine in the majority of the region.” Most of the […] Read more