Voting closed on Nov. 28 for the election of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) Board of Directors. The election brings one new director to the board while retaining two directors for another term. Joining the SPG board is Dan Flynn of Lucky Lake. Coming back to the board are Robyn Henry of Hodgeville and Stuart Lawr...

A national cattle group wants the Canada-UK Continuity Agreement terminated. The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) made the request to Ottawa following the tabling of the UK Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) legislation. In July 2023, Ottawa announced the acc...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is again facing calls to stand up for farmers after new figures shows exports from the province to China have drastically fallen. The Statistics Canada data released this week comes amid a trade dispute where Beijing has slapped tariffs on Canadian canola products, widely seen in response...

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. says it has completed the spinoff of its pork operations into Canada Packers Inc. Common shares of Canada Packers started trading yesterday on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol CPKR. Maple Leaf Foods is keeping a 16 per cent stake in Canada Packers and the two companies have entered into...

Premier Scott Moe will visit China and Japan in early September as part of a trade mission aimed at deepening Saskatchewan's ties with international food, agriculture and energy industry stakeholders. It's been six years since a Canadian premier went to China for a trade mission.At the same time, Trade and Export Devel...

Organizations continue to recognize the challenges across agriculture when it comes to mental health. BASF Agricultural Solutions Canada, RBC Foundation, and The McCain Foundation are once again partnering with Do More Ag for AgTalk, an online space in the agriculture sector for mental health connection and community. ...

Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald and reps from the agriculture and agri-food sector just wrapped up a seven-day trade mission to Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Stakeholder groups that were part of the mission included Cereals Canada, Soy Canada, Protein Industries Canada, Canada Beef, Pulse Cana...

The provincial opposition is expressing concern that an American company has purchased rail and agriculture infrastructure here in the light of the ongoing trade war with the US. The NDP said Bartlett Grain has recently become the owner of a grain elevator near Melfort. They also acquired Ceres Global Ag Corp, a logist...

Good news for cattle producers in the country. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced the successful re-opening of market access for Canadian beef and beef products to Australia. The market has been closed since the BSE outbreak in 2003, and Canada was officially recognized by the World Organization of Anima...

Isolated rainfall and thunderstorms have resulted in varying amounts of precipitation over the past week in Manitoba. Manitoba Agriculture Cereal Crop Specialist Anne Kirk said that's why we are seeing a variety of plant stages depending on the crop type. "Winter wheat and fall rye are fairly consistent across the...