Tag Archives: Agriculture
Agriculture Roundup for Friday March 5, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) in Saskatoon, Sask. is setting up its own high tech agri-food research centre. GIFS executive director Steve Webb said the $9.2 million E...
Alice McFarlane Mar 05, 2021
Listen: Weston Family Foundation provides funding to preserve prairie grasslands
Five groups will administer $25 million in funding for projects to protect nature areas. Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Wayne Hellquist with the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation. –...
Alice McFarlane Mar 04, 2021
Birch Hills, Sask. seed farm provides pulses for the non-dairy beverage market
MELFORT, Sask. – GrainFrac of Edmonton, Alta., Ripple Foods and Tomtene Seed Farm of Birch Hills, Sask. are partnering to develop high-protein pulse-based ingredients for the non-dairy beverage ...
Alice McFarlane Mar 04, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Thursday March 4, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. – The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) said there will be full compensation for eligible producers who were not paid for grain delivered to Canpulse Foods and Global Grain Canada. ...
Alice McFarlane Mar 04, 2021
Shellbrook explores pellet processing plant
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A processing plant that would offer an alternative to coal may one day have a home in west-central Saskatchewan. Shellbrook Town Council has expressed interest in the idea...
Nigel Maxwell Mar 03, 2021
Shellbrook explores pellet processing plant
A processing plant that would offer an alternative to coal may one day have a home in west-central Saskatchewan.Shellbrook Town Council has expressed interest in the idea of a pellet processing plant....
Mar 03, 2021
Saskatchewan producers anxious for Olymel plant to reopen
MELFORT, Sask. - Employees at the Olymel pork processing plant at Red Deer, Alta. could return to work soon. The plant had been closed for more than two weeks as it deals with a COVID-19 outbreak amon...
Alice McFarlane Mar 03, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday March 3, 2021
Dry conditions are expected to continue on the prairies heading into spring while there is a risk of flooding in western Alberta and British Columbia. The spring outlook from AccuWeather indicated mod...
Alice McFarlane Mar 03, 2021
Saskatchewan beef cattle herd increases
MELFORT, Sask. - Statistics Canada reported on-farm national cattle numbers were down one per cent at the beginning of this year compared to January 1, 2020. Saskatchewan was the exception where the b...
Alice McFarlane Mar 03, 2021
Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday March 2, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. – Farm organizations from across the country have joined forces to create the Agriculture Carbon Alliance (ACA). ACA will advocate on carbon pricing, offsets, retrofit funding, an...
Alice McFarlane Mar 02, 2021
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