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Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday January 29, 2020
Cattle and hog futures dropped on Monday as news of the coronavirus caused a selloff in global equities and commodities.Despite the decline in futures prices, the market fundamentals are still good fo...
Jan 29, 2020 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Case of stolen identity leaves Sask. family out hundreds of thousands of dollars
A case of stolen identity has cost one Saskatchewan farming family hundreds of thousands of dollars.Andrew and Laurie Johnson run Johnson Livestock near Peebles, a community about 125 kilometres south...
Jan 28, 2020 The Johnson family. (submitted photo)
P.A. Ag dealer gets behind Rose Garden Hospice
Redhead Equipment is the latest business to get behind the Rose Garden Hospice.On Tuesday morning at the company's offices southwest of the city, a $20,000 contribution was announced in front of a cro...
Jan 28, 2020 Redhead Equipment made the $20,000 donation Tuesday at their offices. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Growing hops in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is well know for growing high quality malt barley.A number of Saskatchewan craft breweries are now using provincially grown hops in their beer.One father and son operation from Moosomin, ...
Jan 28, 2020 ID 144324227 © Korbinian Mueller Dreamstime.com
Listen: Commodity markets suffer from coronavirus
One month the commodity markets are positive and farmers are in a good situation. The next month they're worried about meeting their cost of production.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access spoke to Exceed G...
Jan 28, 2020 ID 126144575 © Vitaliy Nazarenko Dreamstime.com
Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday January 28, 2020
All agriculture markets are feeling the effects of the coronavirus.Hams Marketing Services director of risk management Tyler Fulton said weakness in the financial markets is impacting commodity market...
Jan 28, 2020 ID 24238763 © Marian Mocanu Dreamstime.com
Unifor, FCL representatives to meet in Saskatoon
The sides in the labour dispute at the Co-op refinery were to meet face to face Monday.During a rally outside the refinery, Scott Doherty - the executive assistant to Unifor national president Jerry D...
Jan 27, 2020 Scott Doherty, executive assistant to Unifor national president Jerry Dias, announces representatives of the union are to meet with Federated Co-operatives Limited CEO Scott Banda on Jan. 27, 2020. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
Grain growers want trade deal signed quickly
Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) urged the federal government to ratify the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) as soon as possible.GGC Chair Jeff Nielsen from Alberta said farmers can then ben...
Jan 27, 2020 ID 714165 © Starfotograf Dreamstime
Peter MacKay discusses Conservative leadership bid
Former federal cabinet minister Peter MacKay officially kicked off his Conservative Party leadership bid on Saturday.He sat down for a chat with Gormley guest host Drew Remenda on Monday.One of the ma...
Jan 27, 2020 Peter MacKay (Peter MacKay/Twitter)
SGI says number of traffic fatalities dropped in 2019
Saskatchewan recorded the fewest traffic fatalities in 2019 than in any of the previous 70 years.On Monday, SGI said its preliminary numbers indicated 71 people were killed in collisions last year. Th...
Jan 27, 2020 (Evan Radford/980 CJME)