Tag Archives: Agriculture

MELFORT, Sask. – Farm Credit Canada (FCC) reported farm cash receipts reached a record high last year across the country. FCC Chief Agriculture Economist J.P. Gervais says while this encouraging...

MELFORT, Sask. – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is looking for a new leader. According to media outlet Real Agriculture, President Siddika Mithani left the position suddenly after sh...

MELFORT, Sask. – Canada no longer holds the key to the global flax market and that is having a ripple effect down to the producer. Chuck Penner with Leftfield Commodity Research told those gathe...

MELFORT, Sask. – TELUS Health will be the exclusive provider of mental health services for the Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing (CCAW). CCAW is a new not-for-profit organization that l...

MELFORT, Sask. – The federal agriculture minister is on the third day of a trade mission to the U.K. and Germany. Marie-Claude Bibeau is in Berlin today meeting with global trading counterparts ...

MELFORT, Sask. – Sask Pork launched a new agricultural education program today designed to help share the story of pork production. The organization named 10-year-old Reise Podordeski of Marceli...

MELFORT, Sask. – The group that represents rural municipalities is putting its support behind the Saskatchewan Firearms Act. Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) president Ray...

MELFORT, Sask. – Despite continued progress, women are underrepresented in many respects in the Canadian agriculture sector, and their contributions often go unrecognized. They face both systemi...

Longtime Meadow Lake Co-op agronomist Dave Cubbon was fted at a special retirement celebration this week. The farewell gathering was held at the Seniors Activity Centre in Meadow Lake Tuesday afternoo...

MELFORT, Sask. – New research is studying how stimulating pigs into having play time helps their emotional wellbeing. Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Dr. Yoland Seddon, the Natural Scien...