Tag Archives: Agriculture
AgriStability enrolment deadline extended to July
Federal, provincial and territorial governments have agreed to give farmers more time to consider a business risk management program. The deadline to enroll in AgriStability has been extended without ...
Apr 20, 2020
Showing gratitude to farmers through social media campaign
A Saskatoon-based company is finding new ways to share positive messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alice McFarlane with Ag Access explains a new campaign that brings attention to the important wor...
Apr 20, 2020
Agriculture products included in road ban exemptions
The provincial government along with the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) have introduced road ban exemptions for agriculture products.Highways and Infrastructure Minister Greg ...
Apr 17, 2020 ID 95063146 © Dakotastudios Dreamstime.com
Online auction sales benefit from self-isolation
The impact from COVID-19 has not been all doom and gloom. Saskatchewan companies involved in online auction sales have in recent weeks seen a bump in business.Myron Schmalz, an auctioneer at Schmalz A...
Apr 17, 2020 Schmalz Auctions is offering a phone app for its customers. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Foreign workers crucial to bee farms
There were a lot of very happy beekeepers at the Saskatoon airport on Monday afternoon.The Canadian Honey Council chartered a plane from Nicaragua that held 48 temporary foreign workers destined for 1...
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Farm group calls on Ottawa to help save food sector
The federal government is being called upon to create an emergency fund, to help assist farmers and agriculture-related businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Federation of Agriculture Pre...
Apr 16, 2020 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Public urged to be aware of overhead lines
SaskPower wants people to remember to be aware of overhead power lines as we head into spring.SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry said they wanted to put out the message with spring seeding for farmers...
Apr 15, 2020 Saskpower says there has been an increase in the number of incidents involving people hitting power lines. (File Photo/paNOW Staff)
Farmers, food processors to get federal funds to help foreign workers isolate
OTTAWA - Canadian farmers and food processors will get $50 million in federal funding to ensure temporary foreign workers comply with mandatory COVID-19 quarantine. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude B...
Apr 13, 2020
Stolen semi-truck, loaded with canola, goes viral on social media
The President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalites (SARM) says a story about a stolen semi-truck loaded with canola, speaks to the level of crime happening in rural Saskatchewan.Ray ...
Apr 08, 2020 A photo of this truck, stolen near Leask. (Facebook)
Friendship grows into a flour business
Erin Dancey and Sarah Stautman became friends through their shared love of agriculture, raising animals, growing food, and gardening.Their entrepreneurial spirit pushed them to start a business from t...
Apr 07, 2020 Sarah Strautman (left) and Erin Dancey are owners of Living Sky Farms. (Submitted photo/Erin Dancey)
