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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winter wheat crops are reported thriving across Alberta, contrasting multiple reports of challenges in the eastern Prairies. Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives reported Monday that reseeding of winter wheat is occurring throughout the province due to poor plant stands. The Saskatchewan government reported Thursday that some winter wheat fields in that province’s southeast are […] Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes It may be a small pest, but alfalfa weevil has been making a big impact across Western Canada and may still be running below some forage producers’ radar. The main feeding period for the pest runs from mid-June to mid-July — making it a primary concern for first-cut alfalfa in areas where the pest is […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Warmer temperatures and dry skies across growing areas of the U.S. have allowed farmers to make huge gains in seeding activities — although the haste to plant may not necessarily produce the best crop. Across the U.S., farmers raced to get crops sown after a slow start to the 2013 season. The changing weather was […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Total U.S. farmland under drought edged lower over the week ending May 21, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s Thursday update. During that week, the area ranked as having no drought impact at all moved from 38.3 to 39.1 per cent, as a result of heavy rain over the northern Plains and Midwest, according to […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Planting problems resume for northern U.S. farmers. In what was already a very slow start to seeding, farmers were stopped by rains so heavy that flash flood warnings were issued for southeastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. The slow-moving weather system brought heavy rains to already-saturated ground. Over the past three days these areas received […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes With warming weather come weeds and pests. So far insect pest numbers on the agricultural Prairies have been light — although that can change quickly. “Given the late spring, no hot issues have popped up yet.” said Brent Flaten, integrated pest management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Moose Jaw. During a recent Twitter chat, Alberta […] Read more