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Longtime farmer goes all-local with new marketplace
After a lifetime of farming as a kid with his family and as an owner of an organic operation near Fillmore, Tim Shultz is using the lessons he has learned in the field to open up shop in Regina. The 3...
Sep 06, 2019 Local Market co-owner Tim Shultz poses for a photo at his grocery store, Local & Fresh, in Regina's Warehouse District on Sept. 5, 2019. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Rainfall has harvest well behind schedule
Farmers in Saskatchewan who were desperate for rain earlier this year now want it to stop. In its weekly crop report, Saskatchewan Agriculture said "frequent rainfall and cool weather" are delaying ha...
Sep 05, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
Many Sask. farmers still behind in harvest
The poor weather at the start of the growing season is still keeping many Saskatchewan farmers behind as harvest continues. For some, that poor weather is continuing. Steve Donald, who farms in the Mo...
Sep 04, 2019
Many Sask. farmers still behind in harvest
The poor weather at the start of the growing season is still keeping many Saskatchewan farmers behind as harvest continues. For some, that poor weather is continuing. Steve Donald, who farms in the Mo...
Sep 04, 2019
'Like taking Punnichy off the map': Grain elevator set to come down
The demolition of the 107-year-old grain elevator in the east-central Saskatchewan village of Punnichy is set to begin Tuesday. Lawrence Beyer, the mayor of Punnichy, said the elevator's leveling is j...
Sep 03, 2019 The century-old Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator in Punnichy stands in the village on Aug. 29, 2019. (Brenda Perkin/Submitted)
Innovative Sask. companies getting federal cash infusion
From new ways to process agrifoods, to the creation of medical isotopes for cancer treatments, to agricultural machinery that drives itself -- innovative companies in Saskatchewan are being celebrated...
Sep 01, 2019 Ralph Goodale (right) announces funding for 22 Sask. companies through Western Economic Diversification, including Dot Technology Corporation, as company CFO Jeff Bourassa looks on (left). Aug. 26, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Harvest still lagging behind in Saskatchewan
A combination of early drought-like conditions, then wet and stormy weather in the province continues to keep harvest running behind. The latest crop report from Sask. Agriculture shows only six per c...
Aug 29, 2019
Farmer remembers harvests from 60 years ago
A Saskatchewan farmer remembers how different harvest season used to be. Bill Warrington, 78, owns a farm in the RM of Antelope Park, northwest of Kindersley. He has been at the job full-time since 19...
Aug 26, 2019
Harvest lagging behind five-year average
Recent rainstorms in the province have delayed harvest throughout Saskatchewan. According to the provincial government's weekly crop report, farmers currently have just over one per cent of the 2019 c...
Aug 15, 2019 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
More moisture needed to help Sask. crops develop, gov't says
Saskatchewan producers may have been pleased with the rain that fell in the past week, but they could use more. "Although this additional rainfall has alleviated concerns of dry conditions in some are...
Jul 04, 2019 (SaskOrganics/Twitter)
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