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Alberta harvest virtually complete

Reading Time: < 1 minute In its regular biweekly crop report, Alberta Agriculture says the province’s harvest for another year is virtually complete, with both high yield and high quality. Harvest is estimated to be 98.4 per cent complete leaving less than 300,000 acres to finish, the report said. Approximately half of the outstanding acreage is canola which has been […] Read more
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Saskatchewan harvest 99 per cent complete

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Harvest operations across Saskatchewan are complete in all but a few places, with 99 per cent of all crops harvested, according to the latest report from Saskatchewan Agriculture for the week ended October 21. Yields and quality were both reported to be average to above average for many crops given favourable harvest weather. Average yields for […] Read more
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Frosty temperatures have arrived across the Prairies

Reading Time: < 1 minute Frosty temperatures have definitely arrived in Western Canada. This Weatherfarm map shows minimum temperatures for Oct. 22. You can generate your own daily maps for minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation by visiting the Weatherfarm website. The site also shows current temperature, wind speed, humidity, dew point and rainfall at more than 600 stations across […] Read more
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Showers and first big freeze seen for U.S. Corn And Soy Belt

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Freezing temperatures, light showers and light snow will cause some minor slowdowns in harvesting and only minimal harm to the U.S. corn and soybean crops this week, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday. •• Global Weather Monitoring said harvest weather, though not perfect, would not be bad overall this week. • Light rain and snow […] Read more
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Large Manitoba corn harvest underway

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba farmers are in the midst of harvesting a possibly record large corn crop, and will likely be looking to plant another large crop next year, according to Morgan Cott, an agronomist with the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. “We’re well into the corn harvest now,” said Cott, adding that the corn harvest was farthest along […] Read more
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Donations, prisoners aid cities, ranchers after S.D. blizzard

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Donations of money and some cattle have been rolling in for South Dakota ranchers after a blizzard last week killed tens of thousands of cattle in one of the state’s worst agriculture tragedies, state officials said Thursday. Dozens of minimum-security prison inmates were aiding the cleanup effort, gathering debris in three towns in the western […] Read more
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Genetic ‘switch’ in wheat may halt pre-harvest sprouting

Reading Time: 2 minutes Developing new wheats to resist pre-harvest sprouting may take more than just breeding it out, new research from McGill University shows. A McGill team led by plant science professor Jaswinder Singh has identified a gene in wheat that acts as a “switch” to determine how a plant will respond to high humidity and excess rainfall […] Read more

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