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Dry weather allowed farmers to stay out in the field longer and get more crops in the bin. The provincial crop report has harvest at 41 per cent, up from 23 per cent last week. The southern regions le...

The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) has taken on the Synthesis Agri-Food Network to review Canada's wheat breeding innovation system. CWRC chair Dean Hubbard said a review of the current whea...

A new Canadian-led innovation is strengthening local food manufacturing. The project brings together Canadian farmers, processors and food tech innovators to strengthen the domestic value chain for fa...

An election will be needed to determine who will sit at the directors table with the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG). Four candidates have been nominated for the three positions that will be open in ...

Federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) agriculture ministers wrapped up two days of meetings in Winnipeg, Man. where trade issues dominated discussions. There were visits to a grain farm and a dair...

The provincial government has ordered some farmers and other users in southern B.C. to turn off their water taps, because "severe low flows" are threatening endangered chinook salmon. Randene Neill, B...

While the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) was pleased to see the federal government respond to tariffs on agricultural products more still needs to be done. Ottawa offered a ...

Nutrien Ltd. has signed a deal to sell its 50 per cent stake in Argentina-based nitrogen producer Profertil SA to Adecoagro SA and Asociacion de Cooperativas Argentinas Coop Ltd for US$600 million. Nu...

The federal government is coming through with a new $370 million production incentive to help Canada's canola producers. Prime Minister Mark Carney said its new biofuel production incentive is meant t...

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is considered the most prestigious collection of Canadian scholars, artists and researchers across a vast interdisciplinary field.A University of Saskatchewan researc...