Western Canada

  • El Niño Drought Risk — Western Canada: Transitional Climate Pattern Raises Stakes for 2026 Growing Season

    ByWestern Farm Report

    Southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan enter the 2026 growing season carrying multi-year soil moisture deficits that predated this spring. The La Niña cycle that drove those deficits has now officially ended. An El Niño Watch is active. What replaces La Niña — and how quickly — will determine whether producers in the most drought-stressed regions…

  • Agroclimate Spring Outlook: Western Canada 2026

    ByWestern Farm Report

    Heading into spring 2026, the agroclimate picture across Western Canada is defined less by a single drought story and more by a regional patchwork — sharply dry in parts of southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, significantly improved in central and northern zones, and variable across Manitoba. The Canadian Drought Monitor’s March 2026 assessment, the most…