Regina-based Prairie Clean Energy has completed a successful trade mission to Japan. Prairie Clean Energy is developing a waste flax straw pelleting plant. CEO Mark Cooper says the flax straw pellets will sell as a biomass fuel for power generation. He says Japan is a key market and he met with several major trading companies. […]
Agriculture Canada says it is making progress in battling blackleg disease in canola. The fungal disease is a serious threat for canola, which generates about one quarter of all farm crop receipts in Canada. A team of Saskatoon-based scientists at the Agriculture Canada Research station have achieved a major milestone in the battle against blackleg. […]
30 year old Michael Swan Thorne is facing numerous weapons charges – including unauthorized possession and reckless discharge of a weapon after he allegedly fired a gun at a home just after 7:45 Monday night. Police responded to a call of shots being fired at a home on the 1300 block of Rae street – […]
Crops are ripening quickly with harvest about to start in southeast Saskatchewan. The provincial crops extension specialist in Weyburn, Sherri Roberts, says a few crops are ready for harvest this week. Roberts sees a bumper crop in parts of the southeast because of weekly rains during the growing season. But she says there are concerns […]
The federal government is providing up to 3 million dollars to three national organizations to enhance animal welfare. Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says the organizations will draw on new research to update industry standards for the care and handling of animals and evaluate technology to trace farm animals in the production system in the event […]
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is showing support for farmers worried about federal proposals on fertilizer use. The CFIB is imploring the federal government not to mandate reductions in fertilizer emissions. The government is currently conducting consultations on its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogen fertilizer by 30 percent by 2030. […]
The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced Friday. The change will last until a permanent freeze is passed in Parliament and comes into force. […]
The latest market outlook from Nutrien says global grain stocks-to-use ratios remain well below average levels, which should continue to support crop prices. The outlook says prices for key crops like wheat, soybeans and corn are up 25 to 35 percent compared to the ten year average, providing strong incentive for farmers to increase […]
The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so far this month, mostly in the west central and southwest regios. In eastern areas, he says harvest is at lest seven to ten days away […]
Saskatchewan residents could face a tough winter again this coming year. The editor of the Farmers Almanac, Peter Geiger, says weather will turn cold in late fall. He says the coming winter will be bitterly cold with heavy snowfall across the Canadian prairies. The almanac forecast is based on a century old formula of […]
