The latest Saskatchewan crop report says hot dry weather last week caused significant damage to many crops. The report says yield potential and crop quality will be affected in many regions. Crops are stunted, thin, yellowing in colour and prematurely drying down in many areas due to heat stress. 40 percent of spring cereals […]
The NDP is calling on the province to protect farmers from possible drought and improve the agristability support program. Opposition critic Trent Wotherspoon says farm groups support increased compensation levels under agristability. Highways minister Fred Bradshaw says the province is monitoring the moisture conditions. Bradshaw says its too early to determine if regions will […]
A researcher at the University of Regina says climate change has had an impact on farming over the last 50 years in Saskatchewan. Professor Dave Sauchyn says climate change is difficult to detect in this province because of the extensive range of weather. But overall, he says the temperature is 5 degrees warmer in winter […]
Farm Credit Canada is offering support to hard-pressed producers this growing season. FCC vice president of operations for the prairies, Darren Howden, says farmers are facing serious weather and trade disruptions this summer. He says too much rain is delaying seeding in Eastern Canada, while farmers in Western Canada have faced drought. He says recent […]
There’s some relief for drought-stricken parts of southern Saskatchewan. The weather office says weekend rain was 65 millimeters near Humboldt, 46 millimeters in Yorkton, and 15 to 25 near Rosetown, Swift Current and Outlook. Western Canadian Wheat Growers chair Jim Wickett says the rain was spotty on his farm near Rosetown, ranging from a quarter […]
