BROWNVILLE, Neb., (Reuters) – Severe flooding caused by rainfall and melting snow devastated farms and towns in Nebraska and Iowa on Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, with waters yet to crest in parts of the region for several days. The floods inundated stretches of […] Read more
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Spring weather will soon become market consideration
Dry weather in North Africa and parts of Europe as well as worries about the potential for delayed spring seeding…
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Yield not affected by previous fall’s dryness
In the fall of 2017, growers and crop forecasters were worried in Western Canada. Soils were extremely dry in many…
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Precise metering can mean big saving on seed
Being confident that your product does what you say it will do is a positive place to start, but proving…
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Spring expected to start on time
From snow squalls in Eastern Canada to a deep freeze in the West, “good, old-fashioned February weather” will continue into…
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Cold weather, poor conditions hamper grain movement
Consistently frigid winter temperatures across the Canadian Prairies combined with heavy snowfall in the Rocky Mountains have significantly slowed grain…
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Taking a rain check: Australian farmers shun fertilizer purchases as drought lingers
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian farmers are postponing buying fertilizer and other products they typically use to protect their crops as a drought across the country’s east coast darkens the outlook for the rural sector in one of the world’s top exporters of grains. Australia is the world’s sixth largest canola producer. Farmers usually begin sowing […] Read more
Southern Man. on alert for spring flooding
If there is a blizzard in March or spring rains combined with a fast melt, there is a genuine risk of major flooding this year in southern Manitoba. The Manitoba government and the United States National Weather Service have both predicted increased risk of flooding on the Red River in 2019. If weather conditions are […] Read more
Spring weather will soon become market consideration
Dry weather in North Africa and parts of Europe as well as worries about the potential for delayed spring seeding in the U.S. Midwest will likely start to be issues for market discussion in the coming weeks. So far in 2019 crop prices have been lackadaisical, weighed down by ample world stocks and the ongoing […] Read more
Yield not affected by previous fall’s dryness
The crucial factors determining how a crop will yield are the moisture and heat at a specific stage of development
In the fall of 2017, growers and crop forecasters were worried in Western Canada. Soils were extremely dry in many parts of the Prairies, especially southern Saskatchewan, and there were fears of disastrous yields in 2018. The fears, it turned out, were overblown. The average canola yield was around 40 bushels per acre and spring […] Read more
Spring expected to start on time
From snow squalls in Eastern Canada to a deep freeze in the West, “good, old-fashioned February weather” will continue into March, says a meteorologist. “We’re coming out of a month where Western Canada has just been especially cold, just fierce cold. Really, some of the coldest air we’ve seen anywhere around the globe has been […] Read more
Sask. runoff forecast warns of spring dryness
Farmers who were short of moisture last year might experience much of the same in 2019 if the current spring runoff forecast holds. The forecast issued March 6 by Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency indicates an area of well below normal runoff is expected in the middle of the grain belt from just north of Moose […] Read more
Cold weather, poor conditions hamper grain movement
Consistently frigid winter temperatures across the Canadian Prairies combined with heavy snowfall in the Rocky Mountains have significantly slowed grain movements and rail car deliveries over the past few weeks. Conditions for railroading couldn’t be much worse, said Mark Hemmes, president of Edmonton-based Quorum Corp., during a Feb. 22 interview. In addition to two “fairly […] Read more
Prairies definitely getting warmer: researcher
When grandparents reminisce about walking uphill to school, through deep snow in bitterly cold winters, their memories may not be blurred by time. Winters were colder in the past, says climate researcher David Sauchyn of the University of Regina. January 2019 marked the 409th consecutive month where world temperatures were above the 20th century average. […] Read more
Dry conditions to curb Australia’s wheat crop for 3rd year – forecaster
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Dry conditions for up to six months in parts of Australia’s east coast are set to curb wheat crop yields for a third straight year in the world’s No.4 exporter of the grain, a private U.S.-based weather forecaster said on Wednesday. Australia has been grappling with successive years of drought that have […] Read more
