Agriculture

A fire started near the Rural Municipality of Pittville on Tuesday as Mark Hughes’ neighbours harvested their crops.

Brooks, Alberta-based drilling rig company Bonanza Drilling Inc. pleaded guilty to one count under The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 1996 in Rosetown Provincial Court on August 13, 2020.

Millions of acres of canola and wheat growing in Saskatchewan under recent hot, dry weather could be the first average harvest in years. “We’re coming out of a really tough couple of years,” said Derek Dery, who runs a farm west of Saskatoon.

Epic! A small word to describe a very amazing, incredible trip.

When you are growing pedigreed seed grain you want the fewest weeds possible.

Two tech-savvy farmers and an agricultural expert and retailer took part in a video-conference panel Thursday morning to discuss the state of farming in 2020 amidst COVID-19.

Despite extremely sluggish drilling activity in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, the Aug. 11 Crown land sale for petroleum and natural gas rights brought in $2.4 million.

A Saskatchewan company, Prairie Clean Energy of Regina, has found a way to take the thousands of tonnes of Saskatchewan flax straw that gets burned or trashed on the prairies every year and turn it into something that can provide income to producers

Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) is a Saskatchewan company that has found a way to take the thousands of tonnes of Saskatchewan flax straw that gets burned or trashed on the prairies every year and turn it into something that can provide income to producer

Alberta beekeepers could lose twice as many hives this year as they usually do, following a bad winter and impacts of COVID-19.