Agriculture

Today, the Water Security Agency released the preliminary outlook for spring runoff. A below normal runoff is anticipated for most of the province, however it is still early and conditions can change over the remainder of the winter.

While many people may not be aware, Saskatchewan is home to native turtles.

Feral wild pigs are becoming a concern for wildlife management across Canada.That was the message from Ryan Brook who spoke at the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Convention held in Yorkton last week.

When it comes species interact with others. So when a project was undertaken to study the woodland caribou in the boreal first of Northern Saskatchewan, questions about the impact of wolves some came up.

In Canada raising poultry, whether for meat, or eggs, is something of a niche sector in agriculture, given it has been supply-managed for years now.

The recent signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) starts the clock towards implementing a deal that will bring hundreds of millions more dollars from canola exports into communities to support stable jobs across the country.

Agriculture in general and the canola sector in particular, are good for the provincial, and national economies.

Consumers are no longer directly connected to farms, and that creates issues in understanding how producers grow food. If the agriculture sector wants consumers to know their story they have to be involved in telling it.

Over the years of writing this commentary on agriculture the subject of the ever shrinking connection between active farmers and consumers has been the topic repeatedly. In many respects it is the greatest challenge farmer’s face.

The cattle sector has always been one willing to change and adapt, at least since I was a youngster and paid attention to such things.