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Premier Stephen Harper and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger examine flooded areas around Brandon in July 2014. (PMO photo by Jill Thompson)

Major flood risks seen in southern Manitoba

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 27, 2017

Areas of Manitoba are at moderate to major risk of flooding, according to the province’s first full flood outlook for the spring. Levels of future snowfall and/or rainfall, the timing and speed of snowmelt, and the runoff timing in Manitoba, the U.S., Saskatchewan and Ontario are still “key factors,” the provincial government said Monday in […] Read more

Crops, Weather

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia impose spring weights

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 24, 2017

Spring weight limits on trucks and other vehicles are coming into effect on certain roads in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Nova Scotia transportation department on Thursday announced a maximum weight of 15 tonnes on gravel roads starting at noon Friday (Feb. 24) “until further notice.” “Unseasonably warm weather is softening gravel roads to […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Weather

Delayed planting on Prairies could reduce corn acres

By GFM Network News February 24, 2017

CNS Canada — Record yields for Manitoba corn last year have raised the attractiveness of the commodity for many growers. However, the chances for a delayed spring this year could dampen that enthusiasm, according to one industry watcher. “If we get into a delayed planting situation we may see producers switch their corn acres into […] Read more

A rail car from SGCC’s fleet. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Warm Saskatchewan weather spells early load limits

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 22, 2017

A long spell of spring-like weather in Saskatchewan’s southwest has softened roads to the point where winter weights are about to be removed. Increased winter weights will end in southwestern Saskatchewan, including several major roads and 70 rural municipalities, starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday (Feb. 24), the provincial highways department announced Wednesday. Affected roads will […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan approves largest multi-farm drainage plan

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 20, 2017

Saskatchewan’s provincial Water Security Agency has signed off on what it describes as the largest single agricultural drainage project in the province’s history, with more projects of a similar scale to come. The province announced Thursday it has issued a single approval for 73 landowners in the province’s southeast to set up an “organized and […] Read more

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

By Les Henry February 17, 2017

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

Corn, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Japan feedmakers to tap corn stocks after U.S. supply disruption

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 16, 2017

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan’s feedmakers are expected to tap the country’s emergency stockpiles of corn as inventories decline to critically low levels due to a delay in shipments from the U.S. Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries plans to approve the measure after heavy storms in the northwestern U.S. caused lengthy delays to […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Large number of vessels waiting to load at West Coast

By GFM Network News February 16, 2017

CNS Canada — A large backlog of ships is waiting to load grain at Canada’s West Coast due to a combination of poor weather, early arrivals and railroad logistical issues. The Port of Vancouver lineup included 26 vessels as of Tuesday, according to the latest weekly report from the federal Grain Monitoring Program administered by […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Weather

‘Mini-harvest’ likely to weigh on feed grains

By GFM Network News February 14, 2017

CNS Canada –– Seasonal lows in the Western Canadian feed grain market may stick around longer than normal this year, as the industry awaits the abnormal spring harvest of those fields left to overwinter this year. “The seasonals are fairly consistent,” said Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, adding “we usually see the […] Read more

Adding a pulse crop to your rotation will put N back into your soil, some even require less water to produce.

Columns, Crops, Weather

Get your farm ready for global warming

Agronomy management: How can you adapt your Prairie farm to changing climate conditions in the years to come? 

By Ross H. McKenzie February 10, 2017

Many Prairie farmers have gradually come to accept that global warming is real. Over the past 60 years, our Prairie climate has been gradually changing. In most regions of the Prairies the length of the growing season has increased, the amount of heat (growing degree days and crop heat units) has increased and the number […] Read more

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Major flood risks seen in southern Manitoba

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia impose spring weights

Delayed planting on Prairies could reduce corn acres

Warm Saskatchewan weather spells early load limits

Saskatchewan approves largest multi-farm drainage plan

Les Henry’s prairie stubble soil moisture map

Japan feedmakers to tap corn stocks after U.S. supply disruption

Large number of vessels waiting to load at West Coast

‘Mini-harvest’ likely to weigh on feed grains

Get your farm ready for global warming

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