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MELFORT, Sask. - Seeding is virtually complete throughout Saskatchewan with 99 per cent of the crop seeded, with a few fields being seeded for green feed and silage.Even with the rainfall over the wee...

MELFORT, Sask. - Livestock producers are enjoying a rebound in feeder cattle prices.Canfax reported roughly 5,500 head were sold during the week ending June 4, which is ahead of the 2,000 marketed dur...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A team of researchers at Lethbridge College will be looking into new ways of measuring available field water.Dr. Willemijn Appels, the college's Mueller Applied Research Chair in Irri...

MELFORT, Sask. - Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease of several crops including wheat and barley.USask researcher Randy Kutcher explains a prairie-wide research project examining the FHB pa...

MELFORT, Sask. - Canary seed will soon have official designation under the Canada Grain Act.Following consultations with stakeholders the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) announced it would implement t...

Prices for canola, wheat and cattle, some of Alberta's staple agricultural exports, have been on the rise of late.ATB Financial points out that according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, ...

MELFORT, Sask. - Saskatchewan is expanding its agriculture technology sector.The provincial government chose Conexus Venture Capital as the manager for the province's $15 million agtech venture capita...

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. -- The June 1 crop report from Alberta Agriculture says seeding was almost done in the Peace Region by that date.The report says seeding progress stood at 98.8 per cent, well ahe...

FLORENCEVILLE, NB - By the end of this decade, every potato that becomes McCain Superfries, Bistro fries, potato patties, Smiles, Tasti Taters or homefries will be from a farm that's using regenerativ...

MELFORT, Sask. - The federal government has announced its new clean technology program for agriculture.Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau said the $165.7-million program will help farmers g...