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Tag Archives: Agriculture
Kansas farmers share similar harvest woes to Saskatchewan
Three brothers in Kansas are trying to find something positive as they deal with a challenging harvest season with a parody music video. It comes as the latest Saskatchewan crop report shows just 23 p...
Sep 21, 2019
Mental health services tackle spike in agricultural communities
Farmers often struggle with difficult times in silence. It's sparked the creation of organizations like the Do More Agriculture Foundation. One of the driving forces behind it was a series of 2017 Twi...
Sep 15, 2019
Rainfall puts harvest well behind five-year average
Rainfall and cool weather dampened Saskatchewan's fields over the past week, but producers were able to make up some ground according to the latest crop report. Eighteen per cent of Saskatchewan's cro...
Sep 12, 2019
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
OPINION
Sarah Mills: World Cup dreams are made
The score may not have been ideal, but Sarah Mills says the World Cup experience was everything she hoped it would be.
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