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Prairie forecast: Summer pattern making forecast difficult

Forecast issued June 4, covering June 4-11, 2025

By Daniel Bezte June 4, 2025

We start this forecast period off with an area of low pressure over far northern Manitoba that is slowly moving off into Hudson Bay. To the west, an area of low pressure is developing over the Yukon which is helping to develop a weak ridge of high pressure over Alberta. Over southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba weak high pressure is in place.

Wildfire smoke outside Calgary, August 2023. Photo: Sneha Annie Sebastian/iStock/Getty Images

Crops, weather

What we know about how wildfire smoke affects Prairie crops

Impacts depend on smoke quantity, plant progress, surrounding weather conditions

By Dave Bedard June 3, 2025

Prairie farmers don't have to go far right now to see and feel the effects of smoke in the atmosphere — but what their crops will experience this year is a more complicated matter.

Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India on July 5, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

News, weather

India’s monsoon stalls after early start

Monsoon to pick up again around June 11

By Reuters June 2, 2025

Rainfall over India is likely to remain subdued for over a week as the annual monsoon’s progress has stalled after its earliest onset in 16 years, though it is likely to pick up again from June 11, two senior weather bureau officials said on Monday.

Steve Rooke of Shark Farms Ltd. near Nanton, Alta., climbs onto to his tractor pulling a Morris Quantum 60 drill and tank during a recent demonstration of Morris seeding equipment organized by Viterra near High River, Alta. Seeding was 90 per cent complete in Alberta as of May 27, ahead of the five-year average of 81 per cent. Photo: Mike Sturk

Crops, News

Most crops off to good start

Some parts of the Prairies are very dry, but provincial crop specialists say it’s still early in the season

By Sean Pratt June 2, 2025

Some parts of the Prairies are very dry, but provincial crop specialists say it's still early in the season

Value of Canadian farmland ‘robust’ but cracks are appearing

Crops

Saskatchewan Crop Report: Seeding to be completed next week

Crop progress stands at 88 per cent

By Adam Peleshaty May 29, 2025

Warm and windy conditions allowed Saskatchewan growers to plant 88 per cent of projected acres as of May 28.

Markets, News

Pulse weekly: Early start expected for Indian monsoon

Rains bode well for crop production

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 20, 2025

The onset of India’s annual southwest monsoon is expected over the next four-to-five days, which would make for the earliest start of the rainy season since 2009 and sets the stage for good crop production going forward.

reuters, weather

More stable ENSO neutral weather conditions expected for summer

By Reuters May 8, 2025

More stable summer weather is expected to be favoured the northern hemisphere thanks to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions, the United States’ Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.

weather

Seasonal outlook points to hot Canadian spring/summer

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 2, 2025

Warmer than normal temperatures are to be expected across most of Canada over the next three months, according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast from Environment and Climate Change Canada as of April 30.

Crops, News

Chinese tariffs could mess with U.S. soybean plans

The fate of canola prices hangs in the balance as American growers decide how to react to 125 per cent tariffs imposed by China

By Sean Pratt April 24, 2025

Soybeans could be headed for a wild ride this growing season, says an analyst. Rich Nelson, chief strategist at Allendale Inc., said the outlook ranges from “terribly bearish” to mildly bullish depending on tariffs and weather

weather

U.S. forecaster sees neutral weather conditions persisting through summer

By Reuters March 13, 2025

La Niña conditions are weakening and a shift to an El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral weather pattern is expected to develop in April and persist through the Northern Hemisphere summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.

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