The conference is the forum where the CWB will release its first Pool Return Outlook for the 2010-11 crop year.
Conference topics include wheat, barley, oilseeds and special crops market outlooks, the global economic outlook, the long term weather forecast and the ocean freight situation.
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A leading weather analyst is predicting dry weather for the northwest
Saskatchewan and central and northern Alberta (including the Peace
River country) growing areas this spring.
Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri told the
Canadian Wheat Board’s GrainWorld conference this morning that he
expects “trouble in the west.”
That’s because certain weather patterns are suggesting that the crucial
spring seeding period will see farmers in the areas I mentioned above
get below average precipitation until into the summer. That would
reduce the potential of those crops.
Across most of the prairies conditions should be good, with a cool, wet
spring expected for Manitoba. Generally, conditions including a
likelihood for a late frost this coming autumn, suggest most farmers
should get a good crop, Lerner said.
Elsewhere, this winter has seen great growing conditions in South
America, North Africa and India. Those are competitors to us, so that’s
not great news. Don’t believe stories about troubles in Brazil and
Argentina, he said about recent reports of harvest problems. “All you
need to know is that everything’s wonderful (there).”
