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Canada is ready to go to battle to prevent African Swine Fever (ASF) from entering the country.The House of Commons agriculture committee met this morning to discuss ASF and strategies to keep it out ...

Despite a slow start, the 2019 provincial crop is now taking shape thanks in part to some cooperation from Mother Nature this past week.According to this week's crop report, 38 per cent of the 2019 pr...

Four Saskatchewan students were given scholarships to pursue agriculture-related post-secondary education.Caylee Dorval of Glaslyn received $4,000 toward her studies as the winner of the 2019 Agricult...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...