Agriculture

ST. BENEDICT — Tiffany Martinka has received the Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan 2020 Champion Award for her blog where she discusses life as a chicken farmer living in the Humboldt area.

Innovator grows a smart system

It was another great year for the Community Garden, and even though there were some challenges along the way, the garden produced a tremendous bounty of vegetables.

Heather Stretch usually spends a few days each winter corralling paperwork that traces her produce from seed to sale to renew her farm’s organic certification. Not this year.

As a kid, Delbert Good remembers that he would come home from a day of picking potatoes to find a meal made from the fruits of his family’s garden.

USask-led study sequences genomes of 15 wheat varieties around the world

Stan McKen has been involved with farming in one way, or another, all of his life, which is now coming up on 91 years as of next March. Stan farmed alongside his dad and took over farming following the death of his father in 1949.

More than two-thirds of the world’s fields, ranches and orchards are owned by one per cent of its farmers, according to a report released Tuesday.

While agriculture in Labrador may be a daunting task, there is also a lot of opportunity.

Ron Kaban, Dealer Principal at Yorkton Hyundai was surprised that his business won Large Business of the Year. “I didn’t think I was that large!” joked Kaban.