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Not many years ago, the vast majority of canola crops were swathed ahead of combining. With pod shatter resistance becoming common in canola varieties, straight cutting has gained popularity. Shawn Senko, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada out of Saskatoon, says there has been an uptick in adopting straight cutting over the last 5 years. Senko noted 66 […]

About 170 people from Protein Industries Canada and industry stakeholders gathered in Edmonton this week for their Annual General Meeting. CEO Bill Greuel says government representatives and a delegation from the University of Alberta were also at the AGM on Wednesday. He says the focus was on how to make Canadian companies – from ingredient manufacturers to food companies – more competitive […]

Harvest has progressed nicely this past week with 68 per cent of this year’s crop now in the bin. This is up from 51 per cent last week, ahead of the five-year average (2018-2022) of 52 per cent and the 10-year average (2013-2022) of 48 per cent.  Combines continue to roll across the province with […]

The Animal AgTech Sector will have a place within Canadian Western Agribition. CEO of Agribition Shaun Kindopp announced the launch of the Canadian Animal AgTech Awards. “We want to continue to be an industry leader in the livestock sector,” Kindopp said. “We want to be able to give a lot of the Animal AgTech people […]

Three cattle groups are calling on the federal government to defend Canada’s science-based trade standards. The Canadian Cattle Association, Canadian Meat Council, and the National Cattle Feeders’ Association launched a campaign yesterday (Tues) called “Say No to a Bad Deal”. President of the CCA Nathan Phinney says the campaign raises awareness of ongoing bi-lateral trade talks between Canada and the […]

Harvest progress sits at 51% complete across the province, which is ahead of the 5-year average (42%).Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is complete (100%).Yield reports are averaging about 60 bu/acre for winter wheat and 70 bu/acre for fall rye. Harvest continues in spring cereal crops, with barley at 81% complete, oats at 83% complete […]

Farm group leaders are not only in charge of their respective organizations, but are also producers themselves. The Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission Brett Halstead farms in the Nokomis area, north of Regina. Vice President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture Todd Lewis farms near the hamlet of Gray, south of the Queen […]

Ukraine has warned it could seek international arbitration over restrictions on its grain exports after Poland said it would continue to block domestic imports of Ukrainian grain even if Brussels lifts a ban. Restrictions imposed by the European Union in May allowed Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, […]

Ahead of the model-based Statistics Canada production report due out on Thursday, Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada in Yorkton says it’s likely the agency’s numbers for oats will increase. StatsCan issued its first model-based production report for 2023-24 on Aug. 29, which placed the country’s oats at about 2.429 million tonnes. While the first report […]

Syngenta Canada has announced the registration of Vibrance Total, a new fungicide pulse seed treatment offering what they say is the most comprehensive and advanced level of protection found on the market today. With five modes of action, Vibrance Total provides broad-spectrum disease control, including enhanced protection against Ascochyta blight. Vibrance Total is the only pulse seed treatment on the […]