Sask Ag News

Prices for all feeder steer and heifer weight categories are down, according to the latest cattle market update from Canfax. For the week ending October 27, Canfax reported feeder steer prices ranged from $493.82 per hundred weight (per cwt) in the 300-400lb weight category down to $295.50 per cwt in the 900+lb category. Feeder heifer prices ranged […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Saskatchewan cattle prices lost a little more momentum this past week, according to the latest Cattle Market Update issued by Canfax. Provincial Cattle Specialist Fonda Froats says both feeder steer and heifer prices were lower for the week ending October 13th compared to the previous week. Feeder steer prices ranged from $512.64 per cwt in the 300-400lb category […]

A Saskatchewan-based company that focuses on providing sustainable and clean prairie-based biomass fuel, wants to buy flax straw from producers. CEO of Prairie Clean Energy Mark Cooper says they’re buying between 6-thousand to 54-thousand tons of straw at a time, within a 100-kilometre radius around Regina and a 75-kilometre radius around Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. It’s part of their […]

The Canadian Grain Commission’s Harvest Sample Program is up-and-running for the 97th year. Kerri Pleskach, the Program Manager for Analytical Services at the CGC, says farmers who’ve registered can submit grain of their choosing to the Commission, and will receive a free, unofficial grade of the grain as well as different quality assessments. Farmers can get involved, at no cost, by going […]

The latest cattle market update from Canfax, for the week ending October 6, indicates prices are starting to lose steam. Saskatchewan feeder steer prices were down in all but one weight category – the 400-500 lb category with a 56 cent increase week-over-week to an average price of $455.19 per hundred weight (cwt). The largest decrease […]

A grand opening was held this morning (Wed) for a new fertilizer production facility in Rosetown. The AGT Soileos Production Facility is the result of an ongoing partnership between AGT Foods and Lucent BioSciences. The Protein Industries Canada supercluster also contributed to the project. The facility is being touted as state-of-the-art with “a focus on sustainability, […]