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Canadian Agricultural Safety Week celebrates Safe & Strong Farms
News, Wheat & Chaff

Canadian Agricultural Safety Week celebrates Safe & Strong Farms

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2019’s Canadian Agricultural Safety Week 2019 runs from March 10 to 16. This March, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) is encouraging all Canadians to celebrate Safe & Strong Farms. Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW) is an annual public campaign focusing on the importance of safe agriculture. Safe & Strong Farms: Build an AgSafe Canada […] Read more
Colleen and Scott Garries: 
“A generation that is craving a 
sense of community.”
Columns, Hart Attacks

Tragedy helps us find sense of community

Tragic accident brings back memories of communities, and a new search for them

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With the nation and a good part of the world riveted for a couple of weeks on the tragedy of the bus crash north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, in early April that resulted in the death of 16 members of Humboldt Broncos hockey club, there was one uplifting message: Canadian and, perhaps more broadly, human compassion […] Read more
High-tech and higher-level training
Features, News

High-tech and higher-level training

Moving your farm to high-tech solutions doesn’t mean safety can take a backseat

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Technology has brought about so many advances in agriculture. Automation and computers allow us to do more than ever before. But high-tech doesn’t always equal high safety. Understanding what can’t be replaced with technology and how to use technology as a tool is a new area of farm safety that will only grow as technology advances. […] Read more
The CASA conference will include a session on drone safety.
News, Wheat & Chaff

Farm safety conference to focus on new and emerging agricultural trends

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The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) will holdits 23rd annual conference “Agsafety — Make it a Record Year!” and annual general meeting in Edmonton, Alta., from October 3 to 5, 2017. “Farming is dynamic,” says Marcel Hacault, CASA’s Executive Director. “Trends, technology and legislation affect how we deal with farm health and safety. CASA is […] Read more
Some plants had more affected leaves than others, however, there was no pattern to the affected plants or the location of the injured leaves on those plants. For example, the top leaves were affected on some plants, while the middle leaves of others were exhibiting symptoms.
Crops, Features, Pulses

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s stressing these lentils?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the August 29, 2017 issue of Grainews

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“I have never seen anything like it in 15 years of growing lentils,” Vaughn, a southern Saskatchewan producer, told me after he discovered yellowing, unhealthy-looking lentil plants in his field the week of June 23, 2016. Our office had already received several calls from Assiniboia-area growers with similar concerns. Producers had also dropped off samples […] Read more
The McDonald family elevator was the last grain elevator standing in Turtleford until a fire consumed the structure on the evening of Nov. 29.
News

Grain elevator owners “hit hard” after destructive fire

Elevator contained half of the McDonald family's 2016 crop, and more

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The McDonald family is in shock as they start to deal with the fall-out of their grain elevator burning. On Tuesday night, the last grain elevator in Turtleford caught fire. Local residents watched as the structure collapsed inwards and burning grain poured from the elevator. The elevator was owned by the McDonald family, who used […] Read more
The tail end of a semi is visible as the grain elevator smoulders in Turtleford.
News

PHOTOS: Turtleford grain elevator fire

The last elevator in town burns to the ground

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On the evening of Nov. 29, 2016, the last grain elevator in the town of Turtleford, Sask., located 90 kilometres north-west of North Battleford, caught fire and burned to the ground.

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