Agriculture

Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) announced recently at their Annual General Meeting a profit from operations of $270,411 and a provincial economic impact of $73.6 million annually.

Recently, Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison introduced Bill 125, The Saskatchewan Value-Added Agriculture Incentive, for first reading in the Saskatchewan Legislature.

The WDM Yorkton has opened a travelling exhibit which tells the story of one of the region’s primary agricultural crops. Canola: A Story of Canadian Innovation, is a new travelling exhibit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

If one thing is clear looking toward the future, how farmers farm is going to change as we move forward. That may sound like a statement of the obvious since more things we do evolve over time, and farming is no different.

How do you boost soil water content and soil health without irrigating? Best cover it with a layer of straw, a new study concludes.

Saskatchewan’s average farmland values continued to climb at roughly the same rate as the Canadian average in 2017, a sign of a strong and stable agriculture economy, according to J.P.

An interesting approval was granted recently by Health Canada which could have some rather large consequences moving forward.

It is beginning to feel like 2018 may be the year of unending winter. There is some hope in the forecast that on the Canadian Prairies at least we are inching closer to normal temperatures.

A volunteer will be submerged in grain up to their waist on Apr. 20, but fear not; they’ll be in no real danger. They’ll be part of an event meant to raise awareness of grain entrapment rescue procedures.

The 2018-19 Budget will provide full funding to the Protection and Response Team (PRT) launched last summer.