GX94 Agriculture

At Tuesday’s annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Association, a resolution on variety use agreements, also sometimes referred to as trailing royalties, received a great deal of debate culminating in a very close vote. Sask Pulse has a breeding agreement with the private plant breeding company Limagrain and royalties will be part of the […]

Six individuals will be enshrined into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame this spring, the organization announced Tuesday afternoon from the Nufarm Information Theatre at the Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon. Abdul Jalil, Brian Olsen, Bruce Coulman, Grant Carlson, Les Johnston, and Stewart Stone will be inducted at a ceremony on April 13 […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 95% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 22, a modest decline from the 97% order fulfillment performance seen in week 21.  The decline in performance reflects declines for each of CN and CPKC.  In supplying 94% of cars ordered by shippers in week 22, CN saw performance […]

Thousands of people, many of them farmers, will gather at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon this week for the 41st annual Western Canadian Crop Production Show. The format for this year’s show has changed from three-and-a-half days to three days. It runs Tuesday to Thursday with hours for the first two days 9 a.m. to 5 […]

Farmers who do business with Viterra may be breathing a sigh of relief. Late Thursday evening, Viterra presented its final offer to the Grain and General Services Union (GSU) Locals 1 & 2, which represents 436 employees. On Friday, Union officers gathered to review details of the offer and decided “it is in the best […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 97% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 21, a modest decline from the 99% order fulfillment performance seen in week 20.  The slight decline in performance reflects minor declines in performance for each of CN and CPKC.  In supplying 98% of cars ordered by shippers in week […]