Agriculture

Seeding is underway in many parts of the province this week, with seven per cent of the 2020 crop now in the ground. This is just below the five-year average (2015-2019) of nine per cent for this time of year.

On May 5, Prime Minister Trudeau announced initial emergency relief measures for the agriculture sector totaling $252 million.

Following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement of a $252-million relief package for agriculture and agri-food, Canada’s grain growers are left disappointed by the long-term challenges that this measure fails to address.

Warns producers require much more assistance to guarantee food supply

Weeds that emerge before the crop will out-compete the crop for moisture, nutrients and sunlight.

A day which should be more significant than it is came and went recently with hardly any notice at all. You might blame COVID-19, but honestly the pandemic is not the only reason Earth Day generates limited interest.

It was time for some spiffy new shoes for this Belgian gelding at the Just farm west of the city this week. The farrier work on Jake, a 25-year-old retired pulling horse, was carried out by Dr. Cindy Lukianchuk, from Success, SK.

The vast majority of businesses throughout Canada have felt the impact of Covid-19 over the last two months.

It’s kids aplenty this spring at Jim and Stacey Young’s farm south of the city. While Stacey reports they have one miniature goat the rest of her herd are dairy or meat goats. “No! We don’t eat them,” she said.

Steps taken to improve canola seed emergence willimprove the return on investment for seed and can improve overall crop profitability.