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(Resource News International) -- The wet weather seen across Western Canada over the past week will do little to change the grasshopper outlook this year, although better moisture levels may help alleviate some of the grasshopper concerns later in the summer. Grasshopper forecasts for the three Prairie provinces, based off surveys of adult grasshoppers taken[...]

(Resource News International) -- Spring fieldwork has begun in select areas of Alberta with some seeding operations underway in the extreme southern regions of the province, according to a provincial crop specialist.  "I would say seeding is very limited still, with less than five per cent of the intended area in the ground in regions[...]

(Resource News International) -- The precipitation that fell in the form of snow over the past few days looks to have done little to alleviate the dry soil moisture conditions across many ag growing areas in Alberta. "There's been little accumulation of snow to date and what has fallen has barely been enough to wet[...]

(Resource News International) -- Crop conditions across Western Canada are variable heading into spring seeding, with dryness a concern in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and flooding possible in Manitoba's Red River valley, according to provincial crop specialists. However, seeding is still a month or more away in most areas, and the possibility of late-winter[...]

(Resource News International) -- Grain and oilseed crops across much of Alberta benefited from recent warm temperatures, but more of those weather conditions are required in order to help speed up the maturity rate, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Producers in the province are starting to think it's a bit of a losing battle[...]

(Resource News International) -- Grain and oilseed crops across much of Alberta are in serious need of warm temperatures in order to speed up the maturity process and avoid damage from an early frost, according to a provincial crop specialist. "It's going to be a race to see if the crops are going to be[...]

Kory Teneycke, the vocal biofuels industry advocate who last year became Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications, is quitting his government post, according to news reports Tuesday from Parliament Hill. Teneycke, who was a research director for the federal Conservatives before taking the communications job, was executive director of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association[...]

Several farmer organizations are urging Canadian National Railway (CN) to reconsider its plans to stop service to 53 producer car loading sites across the Prairies. A 60-day notice period, required under Transport Canada regulations, ended Sunday with no known offers from farmers to lease the rail sidings where the railway would previously pick up producer[...]

(Resource News International) -- Slow crop development across much of Alberta could result in many grain and oilseed fields going to forage instead of being harvested, according to a provincial crop specialist. Most of Alberta benefited from at least an inch of rain over the past week, said Harry Brook, a crops specialist with Alberta[...]

(Resource News International) -- Feed pea prices in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been holding fairly steady while values in Alberta have been creeping upward. The ability of values to hold steady and even move a bit higher is being directly related to the weather. "The dryness in Alberta and the western half of Saskatchewan has[...]