The Saskatchewan government will provide the provincial bus company with $13.6 million this year. This includes $10.3 million in operating funding and a capital grant of $3.3 million and compares to an operating grant of $9.2 million and capital grant of $2.3 million recorded in the 2012 annual report. Saskatchewan Transportation Co. cut several routes […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Regina Bull Sale cancelled; new sale planned
The spring tradition of the Regina Bull Sale has ended after 108 years. The committee in charge of the event cancelled this year’s sale after only 60 bulls were entered. It’s far below the hundreds that used to make the sale a marquee event. However, consignors who used the Regina sale as a main marketplace […] Read more
Farmers latch onto ‘felfie’ craze
The selfie craze has arrived on Canadian farms. Farmers across the country have taken to Twitter recently to post pictures of themselves with their livestock and farm equipment or at work on their farms. The resulting pictures — selfies taken by farmers, hence #felfies — have been retweeted worldwide, led to websites devoted to felfies […] Read more
H1N1 presence intensifies this year’s flu season
Provinces running out of vaccine | Health officials didn’t know until December that H1N1 was the circulating strain
Influenza is sweeping through the Prairies at what health officials say is actually normal rates. The difference this year is that H1N1 is the predominant strain, and that is causing concern. Alberta reported eight deaths associated with H1N1 as of last week, while Saskatchewan had seven and Manitoba one. This doesn’t mean H1N1 caused the […] Read moreHigh winds causing havoc in Saskatchewan
Wind gusting to more than 100 km-h downed trees, caused power outages and blew semi-trailer units off highways in Saskatchewan today. Much of the province was under an Environment Canada wind warning throughout the day. The wind also combined with temperatures above zero to create extremely icy roads. Those conditions caused a Sun West School […] Read more
Here come the selfies
The selfie craze has arrived on Canadian farms. Farmers across the country have taken to Twitter in the last couple of weeks to post pictures of themselves with their livestock and farm equipment or at work on their farms. The resulting pictures — selfies taken by farmers, hence #felfies — have been retweeted worldwide, led […] Read more
Regina Bull Sale has been cancelled
The spring tradition of the Regina Bull Sale has ended after 108 years. The committee in charge of the event cancelled this year’s sale after only 60 bulls were entered. It’s far below the hundreds that used to make the sale a marquee event. However, consignors who used the Regina sale as a main marketplace […] Read more
Pasture patrons slow to sign leases
Pasture transfer | Non-reversionary land on federal pastures is an issue for some users
Some patrons of federal pastures set to change hands this spring say the process isn’t unfolding as smoothly as Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister says it is. Lyle Stewart recently said the process of turning the pastures over to the province and eventually to users was going well. However, Dean Palmer, chair of the McCraney Grazing Corp. […] Read morePrairies coping in deep freeze
The answer to that age-old question — cold enough for ya? — was a resounding yes across the Prairies last weekend. Tractors and trucks froze and farmers layered up to move more feed and check water bowls in extreme wind chills of -50 C. Bill McMurtry, a meteorologist at Environment Canada in Calgary, said it […] Read more
Progress show manager moves
Rob O’Connor is leaving his position as manager of Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina to become general manager of the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba in Brandon. He leaves Regina at the end of January after 10 years as show manager and takes over in Brandon Feb. 17. “I really still have that great passion […] Read more
