The Saskatchewan government has asked for an AgriRecovery assessment due to drought. The assessment will determine what help livestock producers could receive. “Many producers across Saskatchewan are facing extraordinary costs to ensure their animals are taken care of,” said agriculture minister David Marit. “We need to move quickly to consider all relief options, including an […] Read more
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Farmers encouraged to give AgriStability another look
AgriStability is a business risk management program that few producers understand and as a result many have left the program. It provides cheap disaster insurance based on an operation’s margins. The margin is calculated as allowable income (such as grain and cattle sales), less allowable expenses. Allowable expenses are the direct variable expenses, and include […] Read more
AIM: Significant yield drop expected
MarketsFarm has released its first yield estimates for Western Canada’s crops and the outlook is grim. Analyst Bruce Burnett just recently completed a crop tour covering most of Saskatchewan. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of good news on the crop front,” he told growers attending the Ag in Motion show in Langham, Sask. “There […] Read more
Prairie crops in trouble
Crops are not faring well in Alberta and Saskatchewan. “Conditions are deteriorating in both provinces,” said MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett. Crops in southern and central Alberta and western Saskatchewan are in particularly rough shape because of drought. Burnett is especially concerned about Canada’s durum and lentil crops, which are primarily grown in those areas. There […] Read more
Seven years of drought take toll
Seven is often considered a lucky number but not for Tyson Jacksteit. That’s how many consecutive years of drought his family has now gone through on their west-central Saskatchewan farm near Golden Prairie. The last good crop was in 2016, he said, with the rain from that year carrying them through the next. But since […] Read more
Dryness helps push up feedgrain prices
As dry conditions continue to take root across much of the Canadian Prairies, feedgrain prices have for the most part been climbing, according to Susanne Leclerc of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. “The futures are coming up on quite a few commodities, so the prices have been coming up slightly,” Leclerc said about feedgrains. “It’s […] Read more
Weather outlook not great for prairie crops
Just when crops across the Canadian Prairies need rain, the outlook to the end of July, according to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc., points to things getting hotter and drier. “It does not look really good at the moment. We are going to see below normal rainfall and warmer than normal temperatures during that […] Read more
Prairie farmers face another drought-reduced crop
Thousands of crop insurance claims and many fields that won’t even see a combine. That’s how the 2023 crop is shaping up. It won’t be a repeat of the 2021 drought disaster. Many areas have average to above average crops so total production shouldn’t be as dismal as two years ago. However, the dryness has […] Read more
Rural municipalities declare ag disaster in Alta.
More counties are expected to make the declaration as the impact of extremely dry weather continues to affect producers
A swath of Alberta continues to experience extremely dry conditions during what is traditionally the wettest time of year. Rainfall hasn’t fallen at all along an area of the southern portion of the province since the beginning of June. Except for the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains and parts of the Milk River basin […] Read more
U.S. corn yield estimate questioned
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest U.S. corn yield estimate does not reflect reality, says an analyst. The USDA dropped its national average corn yield for 2023-24 to 177.5 bushels per acre, down from its forecast of 181.5 bu. a month ago. DTN lead analyst Todd Hultman thinks that is still too high and expects […] Read more
