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Prairie farmers eye early start to seeding

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters –– Western Canadian farmers, some of whom could not plant crops last year due to soggy soil, may be able to get a head-start on sowing their fields this spring. Canada is the world’s biggest canola exporter and the second largest wheat exporter, but its flat western provinces — Manitoba, Saskatchewan and […] Read more
CoCoRaHS’ daily precipitation data for the U.S. for March 19, 2015.
Crops, Reuters, Weather

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the U.S. this spring even as the dry season begins, the government’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. “Periods of record warmth in the West and not enough precipitation during the rainy season cut short drought relief in California this winter and […] Read more
Crops, Reuters, Weather

California tightens water regulations amid long drought

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sacramento | Reuters — Water regulators in California voted on Tuesday to outlaw watering the lawn within 48 hours of a rainstorm, the latest effort to spur Californians to conserve as the state enters its fourth year of drought. Facing a dramatic slowdown in voluntary conservation efforts by property owners, the state Water Resources Control […] Read more
WeatherFarm now offers farmers an expanded daily email as well as a new mobile app, whose forecast page is shown here.
Crops, Machinery, Weather

WeatherFarm boosts local-level data for farmers

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie weather network WeatherFarm has moved to expand the data it can provide to farmers through its new daily email. The network, operated by ag meteorology firm Weather Innovations Consulting (WIN) in partnership with Glacier Farmmedia, owners of this website, gets its data mainly from over 1,100 weather stations set up at farms, grain elevators […] Read more
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Oregon declares drought emergency as snowpack levels drop

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Portland | Reuters — Oregon Governor Kate Brown declared a drought emergency on Tuesday in two rural Oregon counties, with more expected in the coming weeks, as the state suffers abnormally low snowpack levels. The declarations in Oregon come as much of the U.S. West grapples with severe drought conditions. Last week Washington’s Governor Jay […] Read more
Washington state’s drought declaration regions as of March 13, 2015. (Ecy.wa.gov/drought)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Washington’s governor declares drought emergency

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Reading Time: 2 minutes San Francisco | Reuters –– Washington state Governor Jay Inslee declared a drought emergency across three regions including key agricultural hubs of the U.S. Northwest state on Friday, citing near-record-low snowpack levels ahead of the spring runoff. Watersheds on the Olympic Peninsula, east side of the central Cascade Mountains including Yakima and Wenatchee, and Walla […] Read more
(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

State of Prairie winter wheat still unknown

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Snow cover is rapidly disappearing across Western Canada, but it will still be a few weeks until the extent of any damage to winter wheat across the Prairies is fully known. “It’s still wait-and-see,” said analyst Bruce Burnett of Winnipeg grain firm CWB. The crop won’t start re-growing until the overnight temperatures […] Read more
Peter Johnson, shown here in 2009, urges farmers to check their bins given the recent rise in outdoor temperatures. (Ralph Pearce photo)
Crops, Weather

Temperatures climbing? Check the grain bins

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Reading Time: 2 minutes As much as warmer weather may have growers in Ontario thinking of spring planting, a provincial ag specialist warns farmers to consider the old crop ahead of any plans for the new crop. Temperatures are moderating and in southern Ontario, they’ve risen well above freezing for the first time in nearly two months. That’s prompted […] Read more
(WeatherFarm.com)
Crops, Weather

Mild Prairie temperatures not expected to last

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Despite recent mild temperatures that are forecast to hang around the Canadian Prairies for the next week, a weather expert says a colder bias will return during the latter stages of the month. “It will take a while for it to come back, but it will come back,” said Drew Lerner of […] Read more

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