Canadian Pacific Railway is reporting its revenue and earnings for the third quarter were up from last year as it saw strong demand for potash shipping and other services. The railway says revenues of $2.31 billion for the quarter ending Sept. 30 were up 19 per cent compared with $1.94 billion in the same […]
The Moe government has announced a trade office will be set up in the European Union. The SaskParty government says the office will be based in Germany. Agriculture minister David Marit says Europe is an important market for Saskatchewan, particularly farm technology and agrifood. Saskatchewan opened a trade office in Mexico this spring. The […]
The latest Saskatchewan feeder cattle market report says prices were mixed during the past week. Feeder steers ranged from 341 dollars 25 cents per hundredweight for 300 to 400 pounds to 223 dollars 75 cents for the over 900 pound weight category. Feeder heifer prices ranged from 251 dollars 47 cents per hundredweight for the […]
CN Rail says it set a new weekly grain movement record earlier this month. CN says grain shipments for the week of October 16th reached 806 thousand tons, exceeding the previous record by over 50 thousand metric tons. The record follows CN’s second best September ever for grain movement from Western Canada, with over 2.64 […]
The president of APAS welcomes widespread weekend moisture in the Saskatchewan grainbelt. The weather office says the southern grainbelt had rainfall equivalent of 15 to 30 millimeters on the weekend while the northern grainbelt had 5 to 10 millimeters. Ian Boxall of Tisdale says farmland has been extremely dry this fall across much of the […]
Farm Credit Canada says Young Farmer Summit events are returning this winter, both in-person and virtually. Farmers can register for the on-line event to get practical farm management advice and also attend an event in person. The feature event runs November 15th in a virtual format. As well, an in-person event is set for […]
The federal government is providing 14 million dollars to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank to help respond to the global hunger crisis. Foodgrains Bank executive director, Andy Harrington, says the funding will help provide access to emergency food services for over 100 thousand people in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. He says there has […]
The final crop report this season from the Saskatchewan ministry of Agriculture says harvest is virtually complete across the grainbelt. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields of flax and canola remain to be combined. He says yields varied greatly across the province. He says yields in eastern and northern regions […]
The southeast provincial crops extension specialist is advising farmers to check their canola fields this fall for crop diseases. Sherri Roberts, based in Weyburn, has been checking fields for clubroot and other diseases. She says some fields are showing signs of disease. Roberts suggests farmers should consider extending crop rotations and seeding disease-resistant varieties. She […]
Harvest is slowly wrapping up in the northeast Saskatchewan grainbelt. The provincial crops extension specialist in Yorkton, Samantha Marcino, estimates harvest is 95 percent complete in her region. Marcino says yields were wide-ranging, depending on the rainfall during the growing season. She expects combining to wrap up this coming week. —-
