Agriculture

Anastasia Fyke doesn’t have time for millennials. Sort of.

If the federal government is aiming for diversity in its new Canadian Agricultural Youth Council, it succeeded, at least in its selection of Saskatchewan-based members.

Leeane Ament and her granddaughters were out picking sweet corn in their field for dinner, when they came across this large ear of corn. When they opened the husk, they found six ends with the ear completely intact.

This year, they almost didn't come

Harvest continues to quickly advance thanks to warm and dry weather in most areas of the province. Crops are rapidly drying down and the majority of producers are now in the field.

But that's not all bad, farmers say

Farmers in the east-central region have made good harvest progress this past week with nine per cent of the crop now combined, up from two per cent last week and ahead of the five-year average (2015-2019) of four per cent, according to the province’s

Focuses on soil health

SASKATOON—Accurate determination of the number of wheat heads (the grain-bearing tip) in a field is vital for estimating yields in wheat crops, but the usual method—manual counting from digital images—is a long and tedious job.

Warm, dry conditions continued this week which allowed crop development and maturation to progress and farmers in all regions of the province to make some harvest headway.