# What It Actually Costs to Plant Canola in 2026 — and What You Can Expect to Get for It
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Read Free — Enter Your EmailWe respect your privacy. No spam, ever.Seeding is still weeks away for most of the Prairies, but the conditions going into the 2026 spring wheat campaign are already well-defined: acreage is essentially flat, prices remain under pressure from record global and domestic supplies, export momentum is the only thing keeping the market from being worse, and moisture is a patchwork story…
Alberta producers are entering the 2026 seeding season with better mountain snowpack than in recent years, but subsoil moisture deficits across much of central and southern Alberta remain a serious limiting factor. The window for optimism is real — but narrow, and it depends heavily on what happens through May and June.Free Access · Crop…
The sustained closure of the Strait of Hormuz, following U.S. and Israeli military action against Iran beginning February 28, 2026, has created simultaneous cost pressure across both major Prairie input categories — fertilizer and diesel fuel — through two distinct but structurally linked transmission mechanisms.Free Access · Input PricesRead Western Farm Report — FreeRegister with…
Saskatchewan is heading into the 2026 seeding season split in two. The southwest and west-central regions — much of the Palliser Triangle — carry significant drought deficits into spring with limited subsoil moisture and a precipitation forecast that offers little relief through May. The northeast is coming in wet, with heavy snowpack providing strong runoff…
The most recent Canadian Drought Monitor data, as of March 31, 2026 (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National Agroclimate Information Service), shows 32% of Canada’s agricultural landscape classified as abnormally dry or in moderate to severe drought. This represents a significant improvement from February, when 60% of the country’s agricultural land was in drought — a…
If you grew field peas last year and you are wondering how much you can cut your nitrogen rate on this year’s wheat or canola crop, here is the direct answer: somewhere in the range of 15 to 25 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre is a defensible credit in most Prairie field pea situations,…