Agriculture Weather & Forecast

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 23, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Prices of Canadian farmland were seen rising in 2017, with most sales happening in the first half of 2017 before interest rate increases and the drought in Western Canada hit. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report released Monday by Farm Credit Canada (FCC), based on 90 per cent of farmland […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade predicts fewer pulse acres, another canola record

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 23, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — With the uncertainty regarding the pulse exports to India, it’s looking like 2018 could see more canola acres planted in Canada. Statistics Canada will release its Principal Field Crop Areas report on Friday (April 27). Last year saw Canada’s canola area at a record 23 million acres, but this year could again […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Monsoon outlook bearish for Canadian crop

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 18, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — India is forecasting an average monsoon rainfall this year, making the chance of India importing Canadian pulse crops slim. “Given the tariff scheme and the protectionist attitudes India has displayed this year, I think it will take a major weather influence to hurry up the correction to (imports),” said Marlene Boersch, managing […] Read more

Cattle producers and feeders in some areas of southern Alberta have been dealing with overland flooding, such as shown here Saturday over Highway 36 south of Vauxhall, and otherwise mushy conditions. (Photo courtesy Taber RCMP)

Finishers, Livestock, Markets, Weather

Klassen: Feeder market stabilizes

By Jerry Klassen April 17, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Compared to last week, western Canadian feeder cattle prices were relatively unchanged. Stronger export demand appears to be supporting the market in Manitoba and certain pockets in Saskatchewan; however, Alberta feedlot interest remains subdued. Adverse weather continues to plague southern Alberta. Snow and freezing temperatures followed by brief melting periods have resulted in very poor […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat futures drop as weather improves

By Mark Weinraub April 16, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to their lowest in 10 days on Monday, led by a 3.4 per cent drop in K.C. hard red winter wheat prices, on forecasts for rain in key growing areas that will provide relief to a drought-stressed crop, traders said. “Wheat prices are lower, with longs running […] Read more

Crops, Oats, Weather

Extended winter could lead to more Prairie oat acres

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 13, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — With winter still hanging on across Western Canada, one buyer thinks it could lead to an uptick in oat acres. “Later seeding generally increases oat acres. We’d rather see them seeded earlier but farmers have had a tendency when things get late (to) throw some more acres into oats,” said Scott Shiels […] Read more

Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Prairie winter wheat conditions uncertain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm April 3, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — While it’s too early to assess how the western Canada winter wheat crop fared this winter, there is some uncertainty due to unseasonably cold April temperatures. “We start losing cold tolerance, especially in March and going into April now. And that’s when you need to monitor temperatures or for (the crop) to […] Read more

General, Weather

Community to ‘transform’ Guelph’s Kemptville ag campus

By Country Guide Staff March 19, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes The home municipality for Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) former Kemptville campus is set to remake the site as an “education and community hub.” The municipality of North Grenville, which includes Kemptville, about 40 km south of Ottawa, closed a deal in December to purchase the Kemptville ag campus, with the official transfer due to take […] Read more

A gaucho drives a carriage through the pampas (lowland plains), a primary farming and ranching region of Argentina. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

By Hugh Bronstein March 12, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Buenos Aires | Reuters — Hope has withered for any recovery in Argentine soy yields hit by a four-month drought that shows no signs of abating, farmers and analysts said Monday, prompting China to step in to fill the gap in soymeal exports from the world’s No. 1 supplier. The dryness that has blighted the […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Late-season snowstorm brings Prairies moisture

March 8, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — After a winter spent waiting for snow, farmers across the southern Prairies were happy when the forecast was right and Western Canada received a late winter snowstorm. “We’ve heard moisture’s coming before and it doesn’t show up or it goes around us. So when it started snowing and it started adding up […] Read more

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