Allen Warren

Saskatchewan residents aren’t likely to see a provincial Progressive Conservative candidate knocking on doors this election, but if they did, this might be the candidate’s pitch: “Hello, I’m your Progressive Conservative candidate in the upcoming provincial election. I don’t want your vote. Not this time, anyway; maybe next.” And if voters do meet one of […] Read more

With less than a week to go before the Saskatchewan election, the president of the province’s largest farm lobby group is sounding less than enthusiastic about the agriculture platforms of the political parties. Terry Hildebrandt, head of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said the needs of agriculture have been grossly neglected by the top […] Read more

Marilyn Jahnke of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association remembers hearing one of Saskatchewan’s political parties say it would reform the province’s property tax formula. The Saskatchewan Party has pledged to cut the education tax on property by 15 percent, but that’s not what she recalls. The NDP says it will “rebalance” the education tax formula, […] Read more

The lives of people with dementia who live in rural and northern parts of Saskatchewan are about to get a little easier. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its partners have awarded $1.25 million to a research team at the University of Saskatchewan to develop a better way to provide care and treatment for […] Read more

Farmers who want to check livestock, get an aerial view of their crop or just have some fun freaking out their neighbours may be interested in the Draganflyer IV remote-controlled helicopter. The Draganflyer wasn’t necessarily developed with farmers in mind, but Zenon Dragan, founder of Draganfly Innovations in Saskatoon, said it could be applied to […] Read more

Renaissance man Tom Jackson thought he’d feed two birds with one stone. The Canadian singer and songwriter is a moving force behind the Beef Relief campaign, which is designed to help beef producers and fill the freezers of rural food banks. Jackson, who starred in the TV series North of 60, believes the situation has […] Read more

Some 13 year olds supplement their allowance by raking leaves or cleaning the gunk out of eavestroughs. Tee Jensen of Swift Current, Sask., sells prize-winning purebred Red Angus bull calves – or at least a half interest in one, for $41,000. Jensen began raising the lucrative nine-month old calf as his 4-H project in January. […] Read more

Saskatchewan Agriculture has released a new publication that it hopes will save cattle producers money this winter. The 76-page Beef Cow Nutrition and Winter Feeding Guidelines contain directions for developing 450 feed rations for 1,200 and 1,400 pound beef cows using 11 different forages, silages and straw. The feeding guidelines cover the mid-, late- and […] Read more

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. – In 1995, when the federal government was busy repealing the Crow benefit from western Canadian grain farmers, it also started to shed all the country’s small and regional airports. Any airport with fewer than 200,000 passengers moving through it each year, or not located in a provincial capital, was targetted. These […] Read more

Officials at the Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency say they’ve noticed no significant change in turkey sales since the “support Canadian beef” campaign began in June. “The disappearance of turkey from Jan. 1 to the end of August was still running ahead of last year,” said John Sheldon, manager of market information with the CTMA. “I […] Read more