Tag Archives: Agriculture

MELFORT, Sask. - Linamar Corporation has announced it will expand its agriculture portfolio with the acquisition of Salford Group. Linamar will pay roughly $260 million for the Ontario-based crop nutr...

THE BATTLEFORDS, Sask. - Farmers markets in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake area are getting ready to start a new season. Organizers hope the weather is more promising this summer so produce will be p...

MELFORT, Sask. - A Statistics Canada report said Canadian farmers are expected to plant more wheat, corn, lentils, soybeans, and oats this season. But the area seeded to canola, barley and dry peas is...

MELFORT, Sask. - The Saskatchewan Government and Fertilizer Canada have renewed its agreement on 4R Nutrient Stewardship for another three years. The fertilizer management strategy incorporates the Ri...

Many local beekeepers are bracing for impact in the wake of a higher-than-normal mortality rate for honeybees.According to the Saskatchewan Beekeepers Development Commission, a viral mite known as Var...

MELFORT, Sask. - There will be changes to grain delivery declarations for Canadian farmers in the 2022-2023 crop year. Starting July 1 in Eastern Canada and Aug. 1 in Western Canada, declarations of e...

MELFORT, Sask. – The World Bank said commodity prices that reached historically elevated levels because of the war in Ukraine will remain high through the end of 2024. The agency’s commodi...

MELFORT, Sask. - Canada’s livestock sector will receive federal funding to find ways to increase export opportunities. Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced $3...

MELFORT, Sask.- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Manitoba has its first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Manitoba Agriculture said the case is in a commercial poultry...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. – Charlie Smith who grows canola and wheat on about 2,000 acres on his farm in the Rabbit Lake area is starting to make plans for spring seeding. He said more than half o...