Longtime Saskatchewan cattle breeder Alfred Sattler died March 8. Sattler, 81, was born and raised in the Regina area and lived there his entire life. He raised hogs to finance his agriculture education at the University of Saskatchewan from 1959-61. He established his first purebred Hereford herd in 1962 and quickly became known for producing […] Read more
Karen Briere
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Ag spending up in Sask. budget
Agricultural spending in Saskatchewan is expected to be up in 2022-23, largely because of crop insurance premium costs. The province budgets its business risk management spending based on federal estimates, and this year the allocation is up by $73.5 million. Nearly all of that, or $70 million, is for crop insurance premiums, which are the […] Read more
CEO leaves Agribition
Canadian Western Agribition will be looking for a new chief executive officer after Economic Development Regina announced they have hired Chris Lane. Lane had been at Agribition for nearly six years and becomes president and CEO at EDR effective April 25. EDR board vice-chair Tina Svedahl said Lane was chosen after a “diligent and intentional” […] Read more
Supply-managed processors get aid
Supply-managed processors in Canada welcomed the launch of a $292.5 million fund to help them deal with the effects of international trade agreements. Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau last week announced the Supply Management Processing Investment Fund promised in the 2021 budget, saying it would help processors increase competitiveness and resilience. The announcement of the […] Read more
Decision to destroy derailed corn raises questions
Canadian Food Inspection Agency orders feed corn carried in derailed trains to be buried rather than be salvaged
Livestock producers in Western Canada want to know why corn spilled in recent train derailments can’t be fed to cattle, given the lack of feed in the drought-affected region. On March 13 at about 6:30 a.m., 34 cars carrying feed corn from the United States on the Canadian Pacific Railway Soo line went off the […] Read more
Judge dismisses suit against feds over BSE
The Ontario Superior Court has dismissed an $8 billion class action lawsuit over the federal government’s handling of BSE. In a written decision in late January, Justice Paul B. Schabas said Canada was not negligent, as the plaintiffs alleged, in preventing British cattle from coming into the country between 1982 and 1990, implementing a feed […] Read more
CP Rail issues lockout notice
Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe was the first to sign a petition March 16 asking the federal government to make railway service essential in light of a possible labour disruption at Canadian Pacific Railway. He launched the petition at the annual convention of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities and asked all delegates and guests to […] Read more
Longtime Sask. cattle breeder dies at 81
Longtime Saskatchewan cattle breeder Alfred Sattler died March 8. Sattler, 81, was born and raised in the Regina area and lived there his entire life. He raised hogs to finance his agriculture education at the University of Saskatchewan from 1959-61. He established his first purebred Hereford herd in 1962 and quickly became known for producing […] Read more
Winter road weights off in Sask.
Winter road weights for the season come to end in Saskatchewan at midnight on March 14. To see a map of the latest weight restrictions in Sask. click here. While winter weights take advantage of frozen soils to protect highways and create higher truck capacities seasonally; spring road bans reduce allowable weights on rural municipal […] Read more
Sask. crop insurance deadline extended
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. has extended the deadline to enrol in or make changes for 2022. In a March 14 news release, agriculture minister David Marit and federal minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said they had added two weeks to the deadline because of supply chain concerns. “Due to logistical challenges because of the ongoing supply-chain issues […] Read more
