Agriculture

With the crop drying down rapidly and harvest quickly approaching, a Southern Saskatchewan producer is expecting a yield in the mid-30 bushel per acre range.

Crop damage this past week was mostly due to drought and heat stress, as well as grasshopper and flea beetle damage.

Prairie Clean Energy to produce flax pellets.

In mid-July, the U.K. became the 12th member of the CPTPP trade pact.

Parkwood Farms northeast of Yorkton was the first stop.

University of Manitoba researcher leads study to better understand genetic resistance to the soil-borne disease.

Some stories are so far removed from modern encounters with grasshoppers that it’s hard to believe they are true.

Volunteers work with a Nature Conservancy Canada program to collect leafy spurge flea beetles as a natural control option.

The portable machine is designed to help producers pinpoint insemination timing for more successful breeding.

In total 34,167 Fordsons were manufactured in 1918.