Manitoba Agriculture has released its 2025 cost of production analysis for crops and the picture isn’t rosy. All 16 crops in the Manitoba analysis show a return over operating costs, but only pinto beans show a return over total costs. That return is small and pinto beans are a minor acreage crop with only 111,000 […]
Farm groups are digesting an announcement made Monday morning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said he is resigning as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister, once the party selects its next leader. Speaking in front of Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Trudeau also announced the Governor General granted his request of […]
A cross-Canada research project will attempt to reduce methane production by finding rumen efficiencies. Dr. Leluo Guan from the University of British Columbia was recent awarded $7.9 million from the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Animal Function Genomics and Microbiome. Other researchers working with Guan […]
On the first SaskAgToday.com Roundtable of 2025 with Kevin Hursh, Chief Agricultural Editor of SaskAgToday.com, Ryan Young, 620 CKRM AgriNews Director, and Doug Falconer, GX94 Agriculture Director: -Canola and wheat futures are still in a feeling out process in the early days of 2025 as prices trended sideways. -Several agriculture events are coming up in […]
Crop prices varied dramatically throughout 2024. The agriculture portion of the Saskatchewan government website has graphs of farm gate grain prices over time. Note that prices vary from one location to another each day and also vary geographically depending upon access to processing facilities. However, the graphs show the relative ups and downs. Canola hit […]