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Creating low-cost, solvent-free canola & hemp proteins
The search continues for crops and processes that positively affect the environment and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With a focus on sustainably produced food products, Blue Sky Hemp Venture...
May 30, 2024

Seeding lags behind five year average in Saskatchewan
Seeding is now 77 per cent complete in Saskatchewan which is behind the five-year average of 91 per cent. The southeast is the furthest advanced in seeding progress at 84 per cent complete. This is fo...
May 30, 2024

Saskatchewan farm equipment dealer support pediatric transportation
Some of Saskatchewan's youngest patients will benefit from the generosity of Young's Equipment. A donation of $500,000 will go to the Provincial Pediatric and Critical Care Transport Team and the Pedi...
May 29, 2024

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Workers at the Cargill Dunlop facility in Guelph, Ont. are on strike. Roughly 1,000 employees started job action at midnight on May 27. The members of UFCW Local 175 voted 82 per cent in favour of goi...
May 29, 2024

A large majority of Canadians want a carbon tax exemption for farmers
A poll conducted for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) said most Canadians want a carbon tax exemption for farmers. CTF released Leger polling showing 70 per cent of Canadians support the farmer...
May 28, 2024

Saskatchewan Crop Diagnostic School to take place in Melfort this July
A team of crop extension specialists from the Ministry of Agriculture is gearing up to provide another year of Crop Diagnostic School this summer.The field days are set to take place in July at one of...
May 23, 2024

Producers make considerable progress with seeding
After experiencing delays due to rainfall in many regions, 56 per cent of the 2024 crop is in the ground. That's up from 32 per cent seeded last week, but behind the five year average of 76 per cent a...
May 23, 2024

Saskatchewan farm finds ways to survive suring sustained dry conditions
If drought relief doesn't fall from above, grow it from below. That's how one Saskatchewan farm has survived and thrived during the past five years. The non-profit Soil Health Academy (SHA) announced ...
May 17, 2024

Agriculture Roundup for Friday May 17, 2024
Novel Technologies Streams under the Food Waste Reduction Challenge has selected two businesses to receive financial support. Clean Works Inc. and Genecis Bioindustries Inc. will each receive up to $1...
May 17, 2024
Former Sask. Stockyards Company fined $250K for fatal workplace incident
Spiritwood Stockyards has been fined a total of $325,000 for two workplace related incidents, including one that resulted in a man's death.The case was heard on Tuesday at Spiritwood Provincial Court....
May 16, 2024