Agriculture

A major glut in the supply of oil led to oil prices tanking into negative territory, and the result will be a major shutdown of oil production as the lockdowns for the COVID-19 pandemic have severely cut into consumption.

Monday, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced the AgriStability enrollment deadline for the 2020 program year has been extended without penalty to July 3, 2020.

To help lessen the impacts of many challenges in the provincial agriculture sector, the Government of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) have worked together to lift spring road bans for priority goods.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) welcomes the $1.7 billion for orphan and inactive wells and the $750 million for emissions reductions technologies announced Friday by the Government of Canada for the oil and gas sector.

The public offering of Crown petroleum and natural gas dispositions held on April 7 raised a total of $1,723,724, an average of $123.94 per hectare. This is the first of six oil and gas public offerings for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

Are your safety tickets expiring shortly, and you’re not sure how you’re going to recertify them with all the closures going on due to the outbreak of COVID-19? If your Energy Safety Canada (ESC) ticket was set to expire before Sept. 1, fear not.

To help protect Canada’s cattle and bison and maintain the country’s bovine tuberculosis-free status, scientists from University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) and Parks Cana

Increase of 40 per cent over previous year

That +11 C forecast for Friday means an early end to the winter trucking season, and means an early end to the drilling season.

Submitted The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities says it is appalled to learn that the Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency has made final decision to cancel the approved use of strychnine to control Richardson Ground Squirrels.