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Bruce Burnett, Director of Weather and Markets with Glacier Farm Media says that's mainly driven by various factors affecting the broader oilseed market.

Rainfall across the prairies and even provincially has been quite variable this year.

Some areas have seen some pretty wicked storms bringing heavy rain, high winds and hail.

The Canadian Crop Hail Association says storm activity across the prairies in the last two weeks of June resulted in farmers filing well over 2000 hail claims.

According to the report mid-June thunderstorms dropped pea- to toonie-sized hail across Western Canada.  

As Drowning Prevention Week (July 20-26) approaches, water safety advocates are urging Central Plains residents, particularly boaters around Portage la Prairie, Delta Beach, and the Whitemud River, to prioritize wearing lifejackets every time they are on the water.

With enforcement active and preventable tragedies occurring, understanding the law and choosing the right gear is paramount.

Lorne Edwards, Media Coordinator for Lifesaving Society Manitoba, underscores the life-or-death importance of proper flotation.

Reeve Richard Chartrand says the cell service situation in the RM of St. Laurent remains poor and efforts to improve it are met with silence from major telecom providers.

“The service has not improved. It's still terrible,” he says. “We are making it known.”

Chartrand notes that connectivity concerns were raised at a June district meeting with the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM), attended by President Kathy Valentino. He says the issue was also front and centre during a roundtable held by the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities (AMBM).

World wheat stocks could climb to 271 million tonnes by the end of 2025-26, up from 264 million tonnes at the end of 2024-25

There will be plenty of wheat in the world in 2025-26, say analysts.

“As we enter mid-year Northern Hemisphere harvest, a larger-than-expected crop is expected to limit the upside in global wheat prices,” Dennis Voznesenski, agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in his recent Agri Commodity Weekly Alert.

The first of several disturbances this week brought another round of precipitation to parts of Southern Manitoba on Monday, the third time it rained in some locations since Canada Day.

"That may not sound that notable," explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. "But some places in May and June only had rain two or three times over the course of the respective month. After the area was starting to talk about getting dry, for much of the region, we are catching up on that moisture deficit we had since the start of Spring."

MONDAY, JULY 7TH

Santa Clara Baseball League
Plumas 14 Portage 13
Carberry 12 Austin 10
Minnedosa 4 Neepawa 3

MLB
Toronto 8 Chicago White Sox 4

TUESDAY, JULY 8TH

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is headed off to Japan and Malaysia as the Carney government shapes its diplomatic and trade approach to the Indo-Pacific region.

Anand will meet with her Japanese counterpart in Tokyo this week as the two finalize an agreement on sharing defence information and boosting trade.

On Thursday and Friday, Anand will take part in a meeting with the Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in Malaysia.

The Portage Clinic has completed a major upgrade to its operations by switching from its previous electronic medical record system to LibreMD, a Manitoba-developed platform designed with Manitoba physicians in mind. 

The town of McCreary experienced a new feeling on June 27, hearing a local player's name called in the NHL Entry Draft.

Brady Turko spent his first full season in the Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings and says it was a fantastic year.

"I thought it was a good year; it was a good stepping stone as my first year in the Western League. And I thought it was a really fun year and, just all around, a good year to learn and to develop and get better."

Turko says his mindset about the draft was to go with the flow.