Agriculture

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Senate delays threaten farmers.

A new climate reality threatening Prairies.

Soaring feed costs are offsetting the recent record-setting prices and cutting into livestock producers’ profitability.

Stoked Oats: A game changer for gluten-sensitive diets.

Challenges include California’s Proposition 12, foreign animal diseases, trade worries and chronic labour shortages.

Proposed traceability regulations are part of program to develop foot-and-mouth disease prevention, response initiatives.

Producers are hoping for good forecasts as they enter the second half of June, crops will need more moisture now to maintain yields.

Grasshoppers have returned to the region in droves and are beginning to cause crop damage.

Crop conditions across the province mostly range from fair to excellent. Most damage this week was from drought stress in localized areas.