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Rain stalls seeding
Showers this morning brought seeding to a halt in the northeast.Mike Spratt farms west of Beatty. He was doing some work on the seeder this morning and feeding cows because it was a little too wet to ...
May 15, 2019 (file photo/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Producers and consumers benefit from research
The new Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence takes beef research all the way from the feedlot to the consumers' plate.The centre, located on 15 quarters of land southeast of Saskatoon at Clavet, ...
May 14, 2019
Jon Ryan signs with the Saskatchewan Roughriders
Jon Ryan is returning to the Queen City to play for his hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders.The CFL team confirmed Tuesday that it had signed the punter.On Monday evening, Ryan tweeted a link to Ditty's...
May 14, 2019 Jon Ryan posing with the Super Bowl after the Seattle Seahawks won in 2014. (Jon Ryan/Twitter)
Saskatchewan getting new 474 area code
Some Saskatchewan residents will soon be getting new phone numbers.After 10 months of deliberations, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved a plan to add t...
May 14, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)
Agriculture minister talks trade at G20 meeting
Canada's agriculture minister discussed the canola trade dispute with her Chinese counterpart while in Japan for the G20 agriculture ministers' meeting.Marie-Claude Bibeau spoke to the media from Japa...
May 14, 2019 (Twitter/@mclaudebibeau)
Nutrien lays off 80 workers at Vanscoy mine
Nutrien says a tight potash market is prompting job cuts at its mine near Vanscoy, Sask.The company announced Tuesday morning that it would be eliminating 20 staff and 60 hourly positions at the mine,...
May 14, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)
Workers safe after fire at Allan potash mine
A fire at a potash mine southeast of Saskatoon saw dozens of workers stuck in refuge stations for several hours Tuesday.Nutrien spokesman Will Tigley told 650 CKOM that the blaze broke out sometime af...
May 14, 2019 The Allan potash mine is located just over 50 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon, Sask. (Nutrien)
Melfort plant to close this summer
The restructuring of Co-op Feeds facilities on the prairies will mean the closure of its Melfort plant.Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) said in a news release it is consolidating feed production ...
May 13, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Protecting pigs from disease
The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network said strengthened biosecurity is needed to protect the North American swine herd from the threat posed by foreign animal diseases.Netwo...
May 13, 2019 (file photo/CKOM Staff)
Man allegedly removes, burns Nazi flag hung in Kelliher
A Nazi flag flying on top of a home in Kelliher, Sask. was allegedly removed and lit on fire, according to a Facebook post early Saturday morning.The flag, which was accompanied by a Confederate flag,...
May 12, 2019 A Nazi flag hung at a home in Kelliher, Sask., shown here, is lit on fire in a Facebook video posted on May 10, 2019. (Caleb Beaudin/Facebook)