Agriculture

Verticillium stripe, a stem disease, is showing up in more canola fields in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and harvest is a good time to look for it.

Ontario’s agriculture leaders are calling on the federal government to make changes to a key risk-management program to help farmers survive the volatile markets created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In East-Central Saskatchewan harvest progress has more than doubled in the east-central region thanks to relatively warm and dry weather, suggests the provincial crop report for Aug. 25-31.

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