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China has announced an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola imports today in response to Canada planning to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum. In a news release, China’s Ministry of Commerce says it is launching an anti-discrimination investigation into the tariffs and an anti-dumping probe into Canadian canola imports as well as […]

The first winner of the 620 CKRM Country Cookout – Harvest Edition – is over the halfway mark in combining. Ray Francis farms northeast of Moose Jaw, and talked about his operation and how the growing season has gone so far with 620 CKRM AgriNews Director, and host of SaskAgToday, Ryan Young.

Disappointed, but not surprised was the feeling Kevin Hursh had as he was combining over the last few days at his Cabri area farm. Hursh was optimistic after a good start to the growing season and some timely rains, but that mood changed after last month’s heatwave. Days into combining maple peas, Hursh expects the […]

It takes a lot of work putting on a huge show like Ag in Motion. I like watching videos and seeing pictures of the behind the scenes of events like these. So I’ll share our behind the scenes of Sask Ag Today at Ag in Motion. To your left, the behind the scenes dream team. […]

There is an old saying, “you can’t fight the tax collector”. The Sask. Party Government is trying to prove that wrong in its on-going fight over carbon tax money Ottawa says Saskatchewan owes. All of this is over the Saskatchewan’s outright opposition to the carbon tax in the first place. A case it lost in […]

Seeding is virtually complete across Saskatchewan with just one percent of acres left and that is because of all of the rain we have been enjoying, and cursing this spring. The highest rainfall recorded was around Rosthern, with 95 mm. The Nipawin area reported 75 mm followed by the Biggar area at 72 mm. Although […]

The year was 1924. William Lyon Mackenzie King was the Prime Minister of Canada, the world’s first winter Olympics were held in France, IBM was founded, and Emile Bourassa started up his farm equipment dealership in Radville, SK. Bourassa originally started selling coal and wood before transitioning into selling Cockshutt, Massey Harris, and John Deere […]

One of the best things about being on location for various fundraising lotteries is the ability to tour many of the amazing small towns we have in Saskatchewan. This week I found myself in the small community of Limerick just a short drive west of Assiniboia on Highway 13. One of the first homesteaders in […]

Foggy. Kids to School. Off to the dentist Diary entries that were short and too the point.

If there is a topic or an event that requires a prop chances are I’m going to have something that represents. It just requires going to the tickle trunk. And I have many of them! Today, it was the ERTL 1991 die-cast Massey-Ferguson 3050 tractor with front end-loader and attachments. I knew exactly where to […]