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A rail car from SGCC’s fleet. (Dave Bedard photo)

Saskatchewan budget seen as costly touch for farms

By Leeann Minogue, GFM Network News April 17, 2017

Saskatchewan’s general farm organization is consulting its farmer members on less-discussed features of last month’s provincial budget, while warning them to brace for impact from new budget-related costs. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan last Monday wrapped up its latest round of spring district meetings, at all six of which APAS general manager Duane Haave […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

PotashCorp, Agrium merger would send farmers to regulators

By Michael Hirtzer, Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 31, 2016

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — North American farmers will pressure regulators to protect their negotiating leverage with fertilizer suppliers if PotashCorp and Agrium agree to merge, major farm groups said on Wednesday. The potential deal revealed on Tuesday would combine the world’s largest fertilizer producer by capacity, with the continent’s biggest network of farm retail dealers, […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

CP cuts raise worry over potential slowdown

By GFM Network News January 28, 2016

CNS Canada –– Canadian Pacific Railway’s decision to cut 1,000 jobs has caught the attention of two Prairie farm leaders. Norm Hall, president of Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, worries the move is short-sighted and may catch up with the railway in months and years to come, when commodity prices catch fire again. “You dump […] Read more

Not much late-afternoon sun was penetrating the smoke in the skies Thursday in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Weather

Smoke provides cover to dry Sask. fields, real clouds preferred

By GFM Network News July 3, 2015

CNS Canada –– Over 100 forest fires burning in northern Saskatchewan — and the resulting smoke cover — may be bringing a little relief from dryness to growers further south. But silver linings are tarnished at best, as a dry outlook for July means the province won’t move past its drought concerns anytime soon. Forest […] Read more

GFM Network News

Pulse Weekly: SPG looks back at harvest, ahead to trade

U.S. grains: Soy futures set 15-month high after China agrees to purchases

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures take a pause after recent slides

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Saskatchewan budget seen as costly touch for farms

PotashCorp, Agrium merger would send farmers to regulators

CP cuts raise worry over potential slowdown

Smoke provides cover to dry Sask. fields, real clouds preferred

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