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The looming harvest may keep a lid on the upside in the ICE Futures canola market over the next month as participants wait to get a better handle on the size of this year’s crop. MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville says we’re still at the mercy of trying to determine what size of crop we have, noting […]

The President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is keeping tabs on Alberta’s announcement of pausing renewable energy projects. Alberta premier Danielle Smith claims the pause was made after the Alberta Utilities Commission and the Alberta Electric System Operator asked for it in a letter sent to the government in July. However neither entity […]

The Saskatchewan NDP is joining the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association (SCA), Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA), and producers in a call for the provincial and federal governments to get supports to the livestock sector as quick as possible. NDP Agriculture Critic Trent Wotherspoon says he’s had conversations with producers in the southwest and west-central regions of […]

Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport route to Europe, after Moscow broke off a key wartime shipping agreement using the Black Sea. At the same time, a loaded container ship stranded at the Black Sea port of Odesa since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 17 […]

Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grains, fell 2.8 per cent to $80.5 billion in June. The agency says a drop in the miscellaneous subsector led the decline in June as it fell 7.3 per cent to $10.3 billion, weighed down by a 19.4 per […]

Harvest progress sits at 3% complete across the province, which is on-par with the 5-year average harvest progress. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest continues, with 67% of acres harvested. Early yield reports for winter wheat are averaging about 60 bu/acre. Harvest has started in spring cereal crops, with the majority ofharvest happening in the […]

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has launched its first ever young farmer mentorship program. The program was established with support from Canadian Pacific Kansas City Rail (CPKC). The Saskatchewan Director and Treasurer with the Wheat Growers, Kaitlyn Kitzan, says this program is important to her, as she first joined the organization, coming out of university, without […]

A migrant worker who was diagnosed with cervical cancer shortly after arriving in Nova Scotia has been granted health insurance under a federal program. Kerian Burnett arrived from Jamaica in April 2022 to work on a strawberry farm, and says she was fired after her cancer diagnosis and left without medical coverage. Her lawyer, Thiago […]

Any Alberta producers who were considering AgriStability — but only in hindsight — for the income stabilization plan’s 2023 program year now have until September 29th to apply. Ottawa and the province have announced that they’ve reopened the jointly-funded program, as wildfires and/or “extremely dry” growing conditions have dragged on many Alberta producers’ work in the […]

Research out of the University of Alberta is showing that adding silicon to soil could help in the battle against clubroot. The study — which is the first to explore the effects of silicon on the disease in canola — showed that mixing the element with soil reduced overall clubroot symptoms in susceptible plants, by up […]