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Agriculture Roundup Thursday December 12, 2019
The Canadian Cattlemen's Association applauded Ottawa, the United States and Mexico for reaching an agreement on a new free trade deal.The beef producers' group is pushing for swift ratification.It sa...
Dec 12, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Trade agreements good for farmers
Canada, the United States and Mexico have formally agreed to the changes in the new North American free trade agreement. The next step is ratification in all three countries.Western Canadian Wheat Gro...
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Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday December 11, 2019
Canada joined the United States and Mexico in formally agreeing to changes to the new free trade deal first reached last year.The amended deal comes after years of intense and at times bitter negotiat...
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Listen: The human cost of grain drying
More and more farmers are forced to dry grain. It's happening over a larger geographical area.Joy Agnew is the Director of Applied Research at Olds College. She spent almost 10 years at the Prairie Ag...
Dec 10, 2019 Grain drying equipment (Twitter/@SKAgriculture)
Mule deer buck shot and left near St. Louis
Saskatchewan Conservation Officers are investigating another deer being shot illegally and then left to waste. This time it was a mule deer buck found south of Prince Albert near the community of St. ...
Dec 10, 2019 A mule deer buck left to waste east of St. Louis. (Facebook/SaskTip)
Farm show gets a new name and look
Canada's Farm Progress Show in Regina is going through a major transformation.The show will have a new look, a new name, rebranding and added entertainment.New name Regina Exhibition Association Limit...
Dec 10, 2019 The 2019 edition of Canada's Farm Progress show will be the last year for outdoor displays. Everything moves indoors in 2020. (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday December 10, 2019
The Conservative Party's shadow minister of agriculture said what wasn't in last week's Throne Speech is more telling than what was included.John Barlow said the word 'agriculture' did not appear once...
Dec 10, 2019 (file photo/farmnewsNOW.com)
Wexit Saskatchewan searches for signatures in Melfort
Wexit Saskatchewan has set up in northern Saskatchewan, as members handed out pamphlets and encouraged signatures from a table at the Melfort Mall last week. The leadership of the western separatist m...
Dec 09, 2019 A Wexit Saskatchewan table set up inside Melfort Mall with volunteers searching for signatures. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff).
Train derailment near Guernsey causes oil car fire, closes Highway 16
The RCMP is telling drivers to avoid Highway 16 east of Saskatoon after a train hauling crude oil went off the tracks and caught fire early Monday.CP Rail said the derailment happened west of Guernsey...
Dec 09, 2019 (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Analyst expects spring wheat prices to improve in 2020
Farmers and industry representatives learned more about the future of commodity markets this winter at the recent Farm Forum event in Saskatoon.Mike Jubinville with MarketsFarm explained wheat buyers ...
Dec 09, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)