Agriculture Weather & Forecast

Global buyers of quality wheat face disappointment in Canada

By Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel July 20, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Buyers looking to Canada for high-quality wheat to make bread as drought roils output in the northern U.S. may be thwarted, as dry weather has also hit crops there. Wheat plants with the high protein content needed to bake bread have shrivelled in the U.S., one of the world’s top exporters, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise for third straight day

By Mark Weinraub July 20, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures rallied on Thursday to their highest respective levels in more than a week, supported by forecasts for hot weather that will stress crops in key growing regions, traders said. Both commodities notched their third straight day of gains. Corn led the sector, rising 2.1 per cent, […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans, Weather

Prairie soybeans growing well ahead of key pod-filling time

By Terry Fries July 19, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The way things stand now, soybeans look to continue their strong push into Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The key pod-filling time in late July and early August will ultimately decide, but soybean fields in both provinces are doing well so far. In Manitoba, which planted almost 2.23 million acres of soybeans — a […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn, soy extend gains on outlook for dry weather

By Michael Hirtzer July 19, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures rose about one per cent on Wednesday, extending gains from the previous session on outlooks for mostly dry weather that likely will stress U.S. crops, traders and analysts said. Corn and soy prices came off their session highs at midday as investors adjusted […] Read more

Farmers Dennis Reimer (l) and Charles Schmidt, looking for rain. (Lee Hart photo)

General, Machinery, Weather

AIM for Hart: An informative first day

By Lee Hart July 19, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s official. If you want your province to dry out call Charles Schmidt. This climatological fact was among the many things I learned at the first day of the 2017 Ag In Motion (AIM) farm show near Langham, Sask. Tuesday (about 20 minutes from Saskatoon — the show is still running Wednesday and Thursday, so […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Weather

Declining lentil prices should level off, improve

By Terry Fries July 18, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Red lentil growers, who have seen prices cut in half during the past year and a half, may finally be able to find solace in what some analysts call a brighter outlook for the remainder of 2017. “I personally am optimistic that we will see higher prices. Some other people will dispute […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise on bargain buying, temperature outlook

By Michael Hirtzer July 14, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures jumped more than one per cent on Friday on bargain buying after steep losses during the past two sessions, traders and analysts said. Midday weather forecasts also predicted hot temperatures next week in the U.S. Midwest, potentially stressing developing crops and further buoying corn and soy […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy tumble on better weather, technicals

By Michael Hirtzer July 13, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soy futures plummeted on Thursday, with wheat easing as much as five per cent in a technical selloff amid outlooks for slightly cooler temperatures and chances for rain next week in Midwestern growing regions, traders and analysts said. Wheat, corn and soybeans extended steep losses from Wednesday that […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Soybeans set four-month top

By Julie Ingwersen July 11, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures hit a four-month high Tuesday on worries about stressful crop weather in the Midwest and as traders squared positions one day ahead of monthly reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Corn futures ended fractionally lower on profit-taking after a one-year high, while wheat ended higher after a […] Read more

A close-up screengrab from near 100 Mile House on the B.C. Wildfire Animal Resource Map. Tags in red denote producers with livestock needing to be moved; tags in green denote offers of space or transport for affected livestock.

Livestock, Weather

BCCA connecting ranchers, haulers in wildfire areas

By Country Guide Staff July 11, 2017

Reading Time: < 1 minute Livestock producers needing to move animals out of wildfire zones in British Columbia’s Interior are being asked to contact the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association. The BCCA, on its website, said it’s helping to co-ordinate haulers with producers who need to evacuate livestock. “With closures of highways and evacuation orders, permits are needed to re-enter evacuated areas […] Read more

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Global buyers of quality wheat face disappointment in Canada

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise for third straight day

Prairie soybeans growing well ahead of key pod-filling time

U.S. grains: Corn, soy extend gains on outlook for dry weather

AIM for Hart: An informative first day

Declining lentil prices should level off, improve

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise on bargain buying, temperature outlook

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy tumble on better weather, technicals

U.S. grains: Soybeans set four-month top

BCCA connecting ranchers, haulers in wildfire areas

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