Yorkton This Week

There are 19 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on September 18, bringing the total to 1,776 reported cases. The new cases are located in the Saskatoon (12), Central West (3) and Regina (4) zones.

Last year, Tim Hortons® restaurant owners and guests across the country raised a record $9.8 million to support local charities through their annual Smile Cookie campaign.

Starting today, the Health Canada COVID Alert app is available to Saskatchewan residents. Once downloaded to your smart phone, subscribers may participate in digital COVID-19 exposure alerts.

All canola should be conditioned immediately after combining to cool it down, even out the temperature throughout the bin and remove any moisture released through natural seed respiration that occurs in the first hours to weeks after harvest.

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It is sometimes strange how one thing leads to another when you write a regular column on a rather specific topic like agriculture, which I have been doing for more than three decades now.

Water is essential to life and we need it to exist.With water pollution and the problems it creates becoming more prevalent, encouraging people to take an active role in testing local water quality is increasingly important andurgent.

Farmers made significant harvest progress again this week. Sixty-two per cent of the crop has been combined, up from 43 per cent last week and well ahead of the five-year (2015-2019) average of 48 per cent.

Regina– If you’ve driven the road from Highway 9 to Good Spirit Lake in recent years, you might wonder how good your shocks are, as it is not exactly smooth.

Overall 1,757 cases reported in province since pandemic start