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Saskatchewan to halt winter weights early in southwest

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 19, 2016

Weight allowances that let heavier grain trucks roll on more southwestern Saskatchewan highways over the winter will end a week early, thanks to recent mild weather. The province’s highways ministry announced Friday it will remove the winter weight allowances on secondary-weight highways in the southwest region effective Monday (Feb. 22). “While frozen roads provide a […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan expects mainly below-normal spring runoff

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 9, 2016

Barring any weather surprises, most of Saskatchewan outside of east-central regions can expect below-normal runoff this spring. The province’s Water Security Agency on Tuesday released a preliminary outlook which, based on a “warmer- and drier-than-normal winter” and a resulting snowpack below normal levels, points to below-normal spring runoff. Exceptions include parts of the east-central region, […] Read more

These are just some of the reports Saskatchewan farmers could have picked up in January.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

Plus, five reasons  to go to the AGM 

By Leeann Minogue February 2, 2016

You know it’s time for the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon when the temperature drops down to “wear your warmest coat.” This year’s show had the same format as the past two years, with a trade show on the exhibition grounds on one side of the city, a handful of meetings at the Saskatoon Inn […] Read more

The recent downward trend in commodity prices also favours soybeans, say agri benchmark, a global network of agricultural experts.

Canola, Soybeans

Canola gets competition from soybeans

Canadian soybean acreage is likely to continue increasing

By Lilian Schaer February 1, 2016

Canola faces fierce competition from other oilseeds like soy or sunflowers, according to research completed by agri benchmark. The global non-profit network of agricultural experts completed three in-depth case studies of the on-farm competitiveness of rapeseed/canola versus other oilseed crops in Canada, Hungary and Ukraine. Results were presented during the International Rapeseed Conference in Saskatoon […] Read more

Crops, Features

Sask. mustard: small but mighty

There  used to be  more growers  out there

By Julienne Isaacs December 22, 2015

2015 was a challenging year for many crops across the Prairies, and mustard was no exception. But Saskatchewan growers say the outlook is good. Although mustard acres decreased in Saskatchewan in 2015 — by as much as 100,000 acres, to around 300,000 seeded acres in the province — mustard prices remain high, ranging from 30 […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Saskatchewan farmland off limits for pension plans next month

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 21, 2015

Reuters/Staff — New rules for buying farmland in Saskatchewan, Canada’s biggest wheat- and canola-growing province, will take effect Jan. 4, and toughen its ban on pension plans investing, the provincial government said Monday. The changes make more explicit an existing ban on pension plans and trusts from buying land and continue to limit purchases of […] Read more

A pasture infested with leafy spurge. This perennial weed spreads quickly and crowds out native vegetation.

Crops, Features

Battling with leafy spurge in Sask.

Leafy spurge is persistent, invasive, and hard to control. Know your enemy

By Edna Manning December 14, 2015

One of the most persistent and problematic weeds to infest large areas of pasture and prairie in Western Canada is leafy spurge. It is even a larger problem in the northern U.S. — North Dakota, and parts of Montana are badly infested; Wisconsin and Minnesota are also dealing with it. Leafy spurge is not native […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

BHP Billiton to cut 76 Sask. potash jobs

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 4, 2015

Reuters — Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton will cut 76 jobs from its Canadian potash operations due to low commodity prices, a company spokesperson said on Friday. Work continues on sinking and lining shafts at BHP’s potash mine near Jansen, Sask., about 60 km southeast of Humboldt, according to the spokesperson. The mine would be the […] Read more

Livestock

Sask. widens wolf harvest pilot area

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 3, 2015

Last winter’s pilot project to push wolves back from ranches and farms in northeastern Saskatchewan will expand west this winter. Saskatchewan’s environment ministry on Wednesday announced a wolf hunt will run from Dec. 15 this year until March 31, 2016 in wildlife management zones (WMZs) 49 and 53. The wolf hunt pilot program ran from […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Agricultural sustainability and feeding the world

Sustainability, organic farming, and feeding the world: not as simple as they sound

By Les Henry November 27, 2015

Sustainability is a major ag buzzword today, mostly peddled by folks with little concept of what a farm is. It is being used in both crop and animal production but I will just talk about crops. To get on the “sustainable” list to market certain crops I see very strange requirements. You must not push […] Read more

CFIA rejects beekeeper proposals on U.S. packaged bees

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall hard, hogs mixed

Alberta Crop Report: Scattered rains, crop conditions

GFM Network News