Sean Pratt

Sean Pratt

Reporter/Analyst

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Sean Pratt has been working at The Western Producer since 1993 after graduating from the University of Regina’s School of Journalism. Sean also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and worked in a bank for a few years before switching careers. Sean primarily writes markets and policy stories about the grain industry and has attended more than 100 conferences over the past three decades. He has received awards from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation, North American Agricultural Journalists and the American Agricultural Editors Association.

Stories by Sean Pratt

March 31 drought map from the Canadian Drought Monitor.
News

Soil-moisture looks good as seeding begins

After multiple years of drought across wide swaths of the Prairies, most growing areas have enough water to start a crop

Soil moisture maps are refreshingly different heading into spring seeding on the Canadian Prairies this year.
Looking upward from the ground through a crop of green durum wheat plants.
Crop Management, Markets

Outlook generally bright for global durum crop

European conditions are favourable, but Northern Africa is a mixed bag and Turkey’s crop was hit by a significant frost

Durum crops are a bit of a mixed bag in 2025. Areté Market Intelligence is forecasting 4.33 million tonnes of production in Italy, which is Canada’s largest durum customer.
Liquid flows from the nozzles on a high clearance sprayer's boom.
Crop Management, News

Paraquat lawsuit settlement proposed in U.S.

The future of two Canadian cases targeting the herbicide’s connection with Parkinson’s disease remains up in the air

Syngenta has reportedly entered into an agreement to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging that its paraquat herbicide causes Parkinson’s disease.
Close-up of white fertilizer granules pouring through a metal screen.
Markets

Nitrogen prices soar on reduced Chinese exports

“Extremely tight” UAN supplies has some growers forces to substitute urea in their spring planting campaign

Urea fertilizer prices have been on a steady climb since the start of the year, says an analyst.
A green combine harvests canola.
Crop Management, Markets, News

Positive sign for biofuel sector

‘Big Oil’ joins biofuel and farm groups in their call for a big increase to biobased-diesel mandate

United States oil industry and biofuel groups are pushing for a massive increase in the country’s biodiesel and renewable diesel mandate.
Canada is the second largest supplier of beans to Mexico, behind the U.S. that accounted for 75 per cent of 2024-25 imports. | File photo
Crop Management, Markets, News

Mexican bean crop rebounds after multi-year drought

Mexico’s production has been hampered by lack of certified seed, inadequate irrigation and adverse weather conditions

Mexico’s bean production was 1.01 million tonnes, a 41 per cent increase over the previous year, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

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