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Harvest, Ag Ministers meetings, and the weather were topics covered on the latest SaskAgToday.com Roundtable.

Canada’s pulse and special crops industry is collaborating with Canadian National Railway on ways to improve the reliability, speed and efficiency of rail service.

Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) is calling on the federal government and the Major Projects Office to designate the Port of Vancouver and its connecting rail infrastructure as a project of national significance.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office says Canadian officials had constructive talks with their Chinese counterparts about Beijing’s duties on canola during a recent visit.

TODAY...Partly to mainly sunny. Wind ESE 15-25. High 25. TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Wind E 15-25. Low 15. TOMORROW...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of evening showers.

Dry weather helped producers gain ground on harvest, but remains back of the five and ten year averages.

Some Manitoba fruit and vegetable growers were forced into emergency harvests in the face of early frosts in the second week of September.

Crop input costs are expected to rise in 2026, while crop prices are expected to come down. That's according to Farm Credit Canada’s analysis. Canadian farmers are forecasted to spend $22.5 billion on crop inputs in 2026.

ICE canola futures recovered off five-month lows over the week ended yesterday (Wed), but were lacking any clear direction as the harvest picks up across Western Canada and trade uncertainty with China persisted.

The Canadian Canola Growers Association says it’s waiting on information from the federal government before it can double farmers’ access to interest-free canola advance payments.