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Mustard prices hang tough despite wet weather

By Dave Sims November 2, 2016

CNS Canada — Cold, wet weather that has downgraded the quality of some of Canada’s staple crops isn’t having the same effect on mustard, according to two experts on the specialty crop. While much of this year’s harvest is already over, a significant number of acres remains in Saskatchewan and Alberta, said Walter Dyck of […] Read more

Crops, Weather

FCC offers to bend terms for soaked Prairie growers

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff November 1, 2016

Canada’s federal farm lender says it will be flexible with qualifying Prairie crop growers facing financial trouble from a rain-soaked harvest season. Areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have experienced “significant levels of rain in the last half of the growing season and snow since the beginning of October,” Farm Credit Canada said in a […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Weather

Damp, tough canola at risk for spoilage

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff October 21, 2016

Some Prairie canola growers may now be able to get back to their unharvested canola, but the Canola Council of Canada warns that tough or damp canola can still be volatile, even at cooler outdoor temperatures. The Saskatchewan agriculture ministry on Wednesday reported “a few” growers in the province’s southeast were out harvesting canola last […] Read more

Crops, Grapes, Reuters, Weather

World wine output seen at four-year low

By Reuters October 21, 2016

Paris | Reuters –– Worldwide wine production is expected to fall this year to its lowest since 2012, chiefly due to adverse weather that sharply cut output in France and South America, wine body OIV estimated on Thursday. Global wine output is set to decrease by five per cent compared with last year to 259.5 […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Prairies tell a tale of two flax crops

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 20, 2016

CNS Canada — A large portion of Canada’s flaxseed crop is still in the field, leaving questions over the size and quality of what will eventually be harvested. About a third of the flaxseed crop is still left in the field in Saskatchewan, by the estimate of Tom Leier, senior grain buyer with Scoular Special […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Harvest woes rally canola, turn some farmers into winners

By Rod Nickel October 20, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters –– As some Western Canada farmers watched rain and snow turn their ripening canola fields into bogs, Rob Stone could count his blessings. Harvest weather was kinder to his farm at Davidson, Sask., about 100 km southeast of Saskatoon, and Stone finished harvesting canola by mid-September. Then, when worries about four million […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Smithfield sees pork operations back to normal Monday

By Jim Brumm October 17, 2016

Wilmington, N.C. | Reuters — Smithfield Foods expects to resume full production on Monday at its North Carolina meat operations, including the world’s largest pork plant, more than a week after Hurricane Matthew struck the U.S. Southeast and triggered widespread flooding in the state. Operations will get back to normal at Smithfield’s four North Carolina […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

U.S. forecaster sees La Nina likely in coming months

By Reuters October 14, 2016

New York | Reuters — A U.S. government forecaster on Thursday said the chance has increased for weather phenomenon La Nina developing in the coming months in the Northern Hemisphere fall and persist into winter 2016-17. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, in a monthly forecast pegged the chance […] Read more

Snow on farmland at Turtle Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan on Oct. 14, 2016. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Crops, Weather

Snow causing more harvest grief in Alberta, Saskatchewan

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 14, 2016

CNS Canada — Snow and freezing rain continues to hamper harvest progress across a large portion of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Environment Canada issued weather warnings and alerts for much of central and northern growing regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan on Friday. Up to 15 cm of snow are forecast, with freezing rain also likely in […] Read more

NASA’s Terra satellite observes Post-Tropical Cyclone Matthew being absorbed by a cold front along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Oct. 9 at 11:45 a.m. ET. (NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters, Weather

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News October 13, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to five million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state’s top environmental official said Wednesday. Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, also told Reuters that some pits that hold hog waste on farms […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb higher to end week

Draft ‘MAHA’ commission report avoids pesticide crackdown feared by farm groups

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on short-covering ahead of weekend, crop tour

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Mustard prices hang tough despite wet weather

FCC offers to bend terms for soaked Prairie growers

Damp, tough canola at risk for spoilage

World wine output seen at four-year low

Prairies tell a tale of two flax crops

Harvest woes rally canola, turn some farmers into winners

Smithfield sees pork operations back to normal Monday

U.S. forecaster sees La Nina likely in coming months

Snow causing more harvest grief in Alberta, Saskatchewan

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

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