Agriculture

Producers took advantage of the warm and dry weather to make considerable harvest progress before light showers later in the week put field work on hold, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report.

When the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) released its proposed decision to phase out the outdoor use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, two products used by canola growers to prevent damage caused by flea beetles, it caused more than a ripple

The face of farming could see some rather dramatic changes in the years just ahead as new rules, regulations and realities begin to be imposed from above and felt at the farm level.

This wooden grain wagon was donated to the Yorkton Brick Mill by John and Brenda Czarnecki from Mozart, Sk. in memory of their parents Walter and Minnie Czarnecki.

With the hot weather last week, it was an excellent time to do some haying operations on area farms, like this individual was doing Saturday near Gorlitz.

In this space it has often been suggested one of the biggest challenges for farmers in terms of making a profit is maneuvering through the varied roadblocks created in the marketplace by government.

It opened later than they wanted, but the new Parrish and Heimbecker fertilizer blending facility just outside of Yorkton, north on Highway 9.

In North America a lot of people are wanting agriculture to take a step back to its past.

Kevin Elmy is burying his underwear in the fields of his Saltcoats area seed farm. Elmy’s efforts are part of an initiative being termed ‘Soil Your Undies’ Soil Conservation Council of Canada.

You don’t have to have been involved in agriculture all that long to recall that the biggest detriment to Canadian farm exports used to be subsidies paid by the United States and the European Union.