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The highways ministry says winter weights will be removed later this month. The ministry says this is the time of year when truckers must reduce the weight of their loads, as all secondary highways revert back to regulation weights. This prevents damaging important roads in the spring. Winter weights are being removed effective Wednesday March […]

SARM has launched a campaign to attract young people to join rural municipal councils. President Ray Orb says more young families are calling rural Saskatchewan home. He says having more young people on council ensures a vibrant rural municipal government. Orb says getting involved on council helps young people gain knowledge and advance rural development […]

Alberta RCMP have charged a Wheatland County man with causing unnecessary suffering to animals and selling un-inspected meat, after they were called to look into reports of someone who was slaughtering sick and injured cattle. Mounties say when they got onto the property, they found employees actively slaughtering cattle. During the investigation, they say they […]

Opening grain prices Thursday March 2 Durum 458.38 Feed barley 367.58 Canola 810.92 Chickpeas 1058.22 Flax 586.98 Lentils 751.50 Oats 215.32 Yellow Peas 463.55 Feed wheat 289.56 1 Red Spring Wheat 397.64

The governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta are urging a federal Regulatory Agency to reconsider its decision on a crucial insecticide for farmers. The Pest Management Regulatory Agency recently changed approved uses for lambda products, an effective pesticide that many farmers rely on to control grasshoppers and flea beetles. Saskatchewan agriculture minister David Marit is pushing […]

Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were mainly higher for the past week. The Saskatchewan ministry of Agriculture says feeder steer prices ranged from 343 dollars per hundredweight for the 300 to 400 pound category to 236 dollars 83 cents for the over 900 pound weight category. Feeder heifer prices ranged from 278 dollars 50 cents per […]