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Agriculture Roundup for Monday January 13, 2020
There is a lot for producers to see this week in Saskatoon during Crop Production Week.Western Canadian Crop Production Show opens at noon. About 350 companies will fill roughly 1,000 exhibit spaces a...
Jan 13, 2020 ID 140083630 © Firespark Dreamstime.com
Sask. man relives Haiti earthquake 10 years later
Melvin Brundage felt the world shaking beneath his feet as he hugged his baby boy on a third story balcony that could have collapsed at any second.Brundage and his wife Melanie were in a small town ju...
Jan 12, 2020 Melvin and Melanie Brundage of Nipawin, Sask. with their sons (left-to-right) Ritchie and Mike in a 2014 family photo. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Sask. developed app reminds parents of kids left in cars
A Saskatchewan smartphone app is reminding parents a child may still be in their vehicle.It was developed in part by Regina-based pediatrician Dr. James Robertson after he heard how many children died...
Jan 12, 2020 Regina based Dr. James Robertson developed the Back Seat Safety App with Narmer Technology. (Google Play Store)
New trial ordered following issues in Sask. coroner’s office
The ongoing issues within Saskatchewan's coroner's office will not be resolved for some time yet.It all stems from a jury trial in 2017 which found the province's chief forensic pathologist unfairly a...
Jan 10, 2020 (file photo/CJME News Staff)
Hunters cautioned on posting trophies to social media
Posting controversial images of hunted animals online is a risk some people are willing to take. Daryl Minter, a conservation officer with the provincial Ministry of Environment told meadowlakeNOW soc...
Jan 10, 2020 (Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
Morris Group receives creditor protection
Morris Group, which includes farm equipment manufacturer Morris Industries, has been granted financial protection from its creditors.According to court documents, the company applied for protection un...
Jan 10, 2020 (Twitter/@Morris_Seeding)
Listen: USDA reports corn yields up in January report
The shock and awe expected in an important USDA report didn't materialize.Neil Townsend with FarmLink Marketing Solutions said the January World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates were surprisin...
Jan 10, 2020 ID 126144575 © Vitaliy Nazarenko Dreamstime.com
Region static but big job gains on national level
There are some positive numbers on the national job creation front although the rate for the large area in our region known as Prince Albert and the North remains unchanged.Last month, Canada gained 3...
Jan 10, 2020 There was an improvement on the national front but in our wider region things remained unchanged. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Researchers crack canola genome
An international consortium of academic and global seed company leaders from Canada, the United States, Europe and Israel have successfully sequenced the genome for canola.The canola consortium is led...
Jan 10, 2020 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Sask. firefighters return from 38-day stint in Australia
Two Saskatchewan firefighters returned to Saskatoon on Thursday night after spending 38 days helping battle the wildfires in Australia."The hardest thing that we saw there was the amount of people tha...
Jan 10, 2020 Firefighters Phane Ray (left) and Kevin Buettner returned home to Saskatchewan after 38 days helping battle the Australia wildfires. (Harrison Brooks/ 650 CKOM)