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Managing your hail damage
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Managing your hail damage

Hail rescue products show little impact in new trials; hail timing is the key damage driver

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[Updated: March 28, 2017] The Prairies suffered a record number of hail events in 2016, which means hail insurance claims are also at record levels, with more than $528.6 million paid out to western Canadian farmers. Manitoba has set records for hail insurance claims two years running. The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) received 3,747 […] Read more
Les Henry’s prairie stubble soil moisture map
Columns, Crops, Weather

Les Henry’s prairie stubble soil moisture map

In the map of November 2016 soil moisture, there are no “very dry” areas

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As usual, this map gives only a very general indication of the soil moisture situation on the Canadian Prairies as we went into freeze up November 2016. It can be summed up in a word WET. To make a soil moisture map it is essential that a good database of rain records from many stations […] Read more
Crops, News, Weather

Where possible, neighbours helping neighbours finish harvest 2016

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending November 21 (Final)

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Despite many challenges this fall, Saskatchewan producers now have 95 per cent of the crop combined. Harvest continues in many parts of the province as weather and field conditions permit. Producers are hopeful that much of the remaining crop will be taken off prior to winter, although there are indications that some crop will likely […] Read more
Reuters, Weather

Last five years were hottest on record

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Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had […] Read more
A canola field in northwestern Saskatchewan on Oct. 5, 2016 after the area was blanketed by wet snow. (Lisa Guenther photo)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Warm spell raises hopes as Canadian farmers race to finish harvest

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Winnipeg/Reuters – Unusually warm temperatures in Western Canada are raising farmers’ hopes of a strong finish to a growing season of highs and lows, easing investors’ worries about the late harvest. Summer-like weather in Saskatchewan and Alberta, the two biggest wheat and canola-growing provinces in Canada — a top global exporter of both crops — […] Read more
Crops, News, Weather

Rain, snow, cool temps continue to delay harvest

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending October 17

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Wet and cool weather continues to delay harvest. Frequent rain and snow, along with cool temperatures have stalled harvest for almost three weeks. Eighty-one per cent of the 2016 crop is combined and 15 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. The five-year (2011-2015) average for this […] Read more
Tillage recruited to deal with moisture issues
Crops, Features

Tillage recruited to deal with moisture issues

Farmers still want to be zero tillers, but high residue, excess moisture and weeds are putting tillage tools back in the field

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Necessity is the mother of invention, but weather appears to be the mother of necessity, these days. That seems to fit as producers talk about the need for tillage in this October Farmer Panel. Zero-till and direct seeding are still foremost on producers’ minds when they look at overall cropping practices, but with several or […] Read more
Crops, News, Weather

Heavy rain and snow stalls harvest, sunny weather relief in the forecast

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending October 10

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Heavy rain and snow over the past several days has stalled harvest. Eighty-one per cent of the 2016 crop is combined and 15 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. The five-year (2011-2015) average for this time of year is 93 per cent combined. The southeast has […] Read more
Canola field bordering Livelong, in NW Sask, on Oct. 5th. The area was blanketed by wet snow.
Crops, Weather

Snow carpets Sask. crops, weather causing harvest havoc

Some farmers still have crops in the field, but all they can do is 'wait-and-see'

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Old Man Winter yanked the rug out from under the feet of many Saskatchewan farmers this week, as a heavy wet snow fell across the province. Farmers have been happy with the yields, says Ian Weber, sales manager with Warrington AgroDynamic of Mervin. “But they’re not too happy right now with the weather.” Weber estimates […] Read more
Crops, News, Weather

Harvest progress below five-year average, rain still persists

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending October 3

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Producers were able to get back into the field for a few days and make some harvest progress in between the weekend rains. Eighty per cent of the 2016 crop has been combined and 14 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. The five-year (2011-2015) average for […] Read more

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