Get your crayons ready, it’s contest time!

Get your crayons ready, it’s contest time!

Jason Sylvestre, co-author of the great “You Might Be From The Prairies If…” cartoons that we usually run on Page 4 of Grainews, has published a colouring book of hand-drawn Saskatchewan pictures. Jason’s book is called Colour Saskatchewan. You can buy it from your favourite on-line retailer for under $17. Or, you can win a […] Read more

Blooming rapeseed field at sunset

Canola 100 “game on” for 2018

The big green prize is still out there waiting to be claimed at the end of the coming growing season

Merle Klassen is definitely “in” for competition for the big green prize in 2018. Klassen, who farms with family members near Linden, about an hour north of Calgary is yield leader so far in a Canada wide contest among canola growers to produce a 100 bushel canola crop. Klassen produced 85.88 bushels per acre on […] Read more


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Annual food contest has new category for alcoholic beverages

Aspiring Manitoba entrepreneurs with creative ideas for new foods or alcoholic beverages are invited to enter the 11th annual Great Manitoba Food Fight (GMFF), Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler announced yesterday “Manitoba is home to many budding entrepreneurs with a passion for food and drink and the skill to create innovative and delicious new products,” said […] Read more



Grainews Giveaway contest winners!

What can we say, our Grainews readers love farm equipment and who can resist a new, shiny red tractor! Thanks to our subscribers, website visitors and social media followers, we received a great number of contest entries for our first ever Grainews Giveaway! It was a great success and many thanks to Versatile for supplying […] Read more

Versatile collectible toy tractor

Grainews Giveaway

Enter to win one of twelve Versatile collectible tractors!

All of us at Grainews know you’ll soon be needing a gift for that special someone before the holidays. We’re here to make it easier for you with our first Grainews Giveaway! Versatile has given Grainews 12 highly detailed, 1/32 Versatile 4WD 500 collectible tractors to give away as prizes (see photo above). So, how […] Read more


man hugging a cow

Ukrainian veterinarian in contest bid for Easi-Scan

Portable ultrasound unit would certainly make life easier for this social media savvy vet

It started with an online friendship between two cattle veterinarians, and blossomed into a worldwide, viral campaign. Even though he doesn’t speak a word of Ukrainian, Airdrie vet Cody Creelman, was drawn to the online videos of Vadim Pryadko, who lives in a town called Khmelnitsky near the Polish border. “We developed a relationship,” said […] Read more