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Cattle industry set priorities for next government
Farmers and ranchers met in Melfort this week for the Saskatchewan Cattlemen's District eight meeting.It was an opportunity to tackle a number of topics including business structure, tax management as...
Oct 25, 2019 CCA Policy Manager Jennifer Babcock speaks to ranchers at the Sask. Cattlemen's district meeting in Melfort. (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

Sask. government not in favour of western separation
While the idea of Western Canada separating from the rest of the country has been talked about in some corners of Saskatchewan and Alberta since the Liberal party won the federal election Monday, the ...
Oct 25, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Agriculture Roundup for Friday October 25, 2019
Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were mixed this past week.Feeder steer markets were mixed with prices $3.60 per hundredweight lower to $2.37 per hundredweight higher compared to the previous week. T...
Oct 25, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

SGI shines spotlight on school zone speeders
Some drivers in Saskatchewan learned their lesson the hard way when it came to school zone speed limits.According to SGI, police officers around the province handed out 1,424 tickets for speeding in s...
Oct 24, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Sask. Party shuts down emergency debate on education
The Saskatchewan NDP believes there's a crisis happening in the province's schools, but when its education critic tried to start an emergency debate on the subject after the first Question Period of t...
Oct 24, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Throne speech supported by RM's
The group that represents the province's rural municipalities is encouraged by the throne speech.The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) President Ray Orb said there is a need to b...
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Listen: Safe storage of pulses
Farmers have been working hard to bring in the last of the crop.Most of the pulse crops are in the bin now, but are they in the best condition possible to hold up for the long term?Alice McFarlane wit...
Oct 24, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

Agriculture Roundup for Thursday October 24, 2019
A Farm Credit Canada (FCC) campaign will feed a lot of people this winter.FCC Drive Away Hunger, along with its industry partners, participating schools and volunteers will provide 16 million meals fo...
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Sask. gov’t focuses on distracted driving, vaping in throne speech
Premier Scott Moe's government is promising to pass legislation this session to regulate vaping and to increase the penalties for distracted driving.Those were two of the key messages in the speech fr...
Oct 23, 2019 (file photo/CJME News Staff)

Listen: Agriculture issues in the legislature
The fall session of the legislature opened today with the speech from the throne.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Provincial Agriculture Minister David Marit about priorities for the agricultur...
Oct 23, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)