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MELFORT, Sask. - After a two-year hiatus the Saskatchewan Beef Expo returned over the weekend.Roughly 60 young people were able to participate in-person in educational seminars and competition at Sask...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - You may be just about snowed out after all the deposits we got this winter, but there are some in the Prince Albert area who are relieved to see the snow continuing into early A...

MELFORT, Sask. - An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Australia is causing worldwide concern.The viral zoonotic disease is spread by mosquitoes and can cause reproductive losses and encephalitis in...

MELFORT, Sask.- Farmers have been jumping at the opportunity to secure some cash flow as they prepare for the growing season.The 2022 Advance Payments Program (APP) is a federal loan program administe...

MELFORT, Sask. - Some Saskatchewan livestock producers will have to be patient waiting for the snow to melt before they turn their animals out onto pasture.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Shel...

MELFORT, Sask. - The University of Calgary is concerned people are mixing a powerful drug to sedate horses and cattle.Professor of veterinary medicine Nigel Caulkett said xylazine produces a deep stat...

MELFORT, Sask. - Canada's food manufacturers managed to grow sales, buoyed by pent-up demand and higher prices.The 2021 Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Food Report indicated food manufacturing sales increase...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The Battlefords Agricultural Society is beginning the new season with a brand new project.General Manager Jocelyn Ritchie said the non profit is starting a new community gard...

MELFORT, Sask. - The British Columbia Agriculture Ministry said it is ending the COVID-19 quarantine program for temporary foreign workers. It added it would keep a different program for another year ...

MELFORT, Sask. - In 2019, Canada produced 730 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and agriculture accounts for about 10 per cent of that total. Grain Growers of Canada have announced the creation of a cli...