Agriculture

Recently, in Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang concluded the second Annual Leaders’ Dialogue between Canada and China.

Two MLAs fielded questions from Yorkton agrologists and farmers at a speaking engagement in the newly-opened Pattison Agriculture building. Warren Kaeding, the MLA for Melville-Saltcoats, and the Minister of the Economy Hon.

Gene drive was a term I had admittedly not heard before coming across a recent article in the agriculture press, and it took only a few paragraphs of that article to feel excited by its potential and also shudder with fear regarding its possible repe

It has been a year since Pattison Agriculture has opened its new location in Yorkton. The new facility celebrated its official grand opening the day before its anniversary.

When it comes to achieving reasonable profit levels on the farm many factors play a role. A number of those factors are largely beyond the control of the producer.

One truth of the life of farmers is that they keep at least one eye on the skies. At least that was the case when I was growing up.

On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 a group of students from the Yorkton Regional High School had the opportunity to travel to Regina to partake in The Canadian Western Agribition.

It might sound like a play on words, but often Prairie farmers are faced with an old-fashioned chicken and egg conundrum.

If you are a farmer you no doubt have been following the issues popping up around neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids (sometimes shortened to neonics) are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine, notes Wikepedia.

Leafy spurge and the Grinch would make a good couple; while one depresses the Christmas cheer the other depresses your forage yield and quality.