Agriculture

On the heels of multiple wins at the World Clydesdale Show in Madison, WI., in October, Linda Banga captured her second Clydesdale Breeders Cup at this year’s Grain Millers Harvest Showdown in Yorkton.

The future of agriculture is sitting in school right now, and Grain Millers Harvest Showdown had school tours giving kids the chance to learn all about farming, including using VR and learning how someone can test the quality of Canola.

When the 2018 edition of the Farmer Recognition Award was presented at the Grain Millers Harvest Showdown a family well-known in the Charolais cattle sector were the recipients.

To mark Agriculture Week and the Grain Millers Harvest Showdown a board branding was held Monday with Larry Hilworth doing the honours as, from left, Mike Popowich, president of the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce, Yorkton Mayor Bob Maloney and Lori Wals

As noted last week there are concerns over the new federal carbon tax within the farm sector.

Yorkton Council unanimously supported a joint request made at its regular meeting Monday by the Yorkton Exhibition Association, (YEA), and Yorkton Chamber of Commerce to proclaim the week of Nov. 5-11 Agriculture Week in Yorkton.

So the Cannabis Act came into force Oct. 18. Depending upon where you live in Canada the reaction has been quite different.

Once harvest wraps up for another year, producers often spend some time reflecting on what went well, and what could have gone better over the past growing season.

There is an old adage about history often repeating itself, and that might just be the case when it comes to farm shelterbelts. As long as there have been farms, farmers have always had a sort of love-hate relationship with trees.

To the surprise of many in the face of the rhetoric of American president Donald Trump, a new North American trade deal has been hammered out. The reaction has been generally positive, at least in this country among farm organizations.