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A new pork processing plant has been established at Moose Jaw. The plant plans to process the 200,000 cull sows that are currently exported to the U.S. Donald’s Fine Food owned by Donald Leung and his family already runs Thunder Creek Pork in Moose Jaw processing a little over 300,000 market hogs per year. Their […]

This week has been proclaimed as “Agriculture Week” in Yorkton by the Yorkton Exhibition Association and the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce.  A burning of the brand was held Monday morning as the city prepares to host the 34th Annual Grain Millers Harvest Showdown, which starts on Wednesday and runs through Saturday on the Yorkton Exhibition […]

Sharing agricultural products to the world was one of the messages sent in yesterday’s (Wed) Throne Speech as well as from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. The Speech noted 2022 was a record-year for agri-food exports and “is on track to set more records this year.” In the first 6 months of 2023, exports were up […]

Producers can now submit applications for the 2023 Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program through the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation website. This Program covers 70 per cent of extraordinary costs related to feed and freight, incurred after May 1, 2023, through to the application deadline of March 1, 2024. Producers will need to submit their receipts or appropriate […]

The Underused Housing Tax is meant to curtail foreign ownership of housing through trusts in Canada’s large cities. However, in some circumstances, farmers are being hit with the need to file a return for the Underused Housing Tax. Although in most cases they are exempt from paying the tax, which is 1 per cent of […]

Harvest progress as of October 24 sits at 96% complete across the province, which is ahead ofthe 5-year average (90%).2023 seeding progress on May 16 the first crop report of the season was at 25% compared to the five yearaverage of 63% for week 20. With good seeding conditions producers were able to wrap up […]

Now that harvest is complete, farmers are turning their attention to next season. Part of the decision-making process is looking at which crops to plant based on prices. Chief Agricultural Editor of SaskAgToday.com Kevin Hursh looked at prices now compared to the same time a year ago, and noted most prices for crops are down but a […]

The Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society has unveiled a new fundraising project that will target farmers in the area.  Board member Thom Weir says it’s to help make the Yorkton Flour Mill’s Interpretive Centre a reality. For your $5,000 contribution paid through your delivery to theelevator, a 11-inch by 14-inch framed photo of your farm, and ashort […]

The President of Pulse Canada is optimistic there won’t be any disruptions to the flow of products to India, despite ongoing tensions between India and Canada. Greg Cherewyk believes that based on connections made over the past 30 years. “The people-to-people ties, the business-to-business ties, and even the industry-to-industry relationships that we’ve developed at Pulse […]

Saskatchewan cattle prices appeared to rebound last week, according to the latest cattle market update, issued by Canfax, for the week ending October 20. Prices for most feeder steers increased week-over-week except for the 400-500lb and 900+lb categories. Feeder heifer prices were mixed with increases in the 300-400lb, 500-600lb, and 600-700lb categories, and decreases in the 400-500lb, […]