Karen Morrison

OUTLOOK, Sask.- Twice as sweet as those from California, Saskatchewan cantaloupes can offer good taste to consumers and good returns for irrigated producers. Oliver Green, a market gardener and landscaper from Broderick, Sask., said Saskatchewan cantaloupe can be picked when ripe and delivered to store shelves the same day. Producers pocket about a dollar a […] Read more

Winnipeg was truly a city of dreams at the start of the 20th century. As the population boomed, the city prospered and became a financial, manufacturing and grain trading centre for the West. Its period of prosperity is well told in the period dress displayed at the Costume Museum of Canada in Dugald, Man., until […] Read more

Manitoba cattle and bison heading south will be tested for bovine tuberculosis effective Aug. 17. The United States Department of Agriculture informed the Canadian Food Inspection Agency earlier this month of its plan to pursue mandatory testing. Ken Stepushyn of CFIA was unsure how it would affect cattle hauled from drought-ravaged provinces to Manitoba pastures. […] Read more

Molting is passé and roomier cages are in for chickens in the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency’s new code of practice. CEMA chair Laurent Souligny said the code is voluntary but provides producers with guidelines for managing their laying hen flocks. “We want to be ahead of the game,” said Souligny, in Saskatoon July 9 at […] Read more

Eggs could be nature’s perfect food, but concerns about cholesterol and salmonella have hurt consumption rates. Jeong Sim, of the University of Alberta’s animal science department, told a national egg producers conference in Saskatoon July 7-10 of the many alternatives in egg use. “The egg is no longer just a food in the frying pan,” […] Read more

Aging baby boomers seeking alternatives to traditional medicine translate into a healthy bottom line for Nutravim Nutraceuticals Ltd. of Moose Jaw, Sask. The two-year-old company, which employs 21 workers, is poised to double its building space from the current 9,000 sq. feet. Its workforce is also expected to grow to more than 30 by fall. […] Read more

MEATH PARK, Sask. – Dusty gravel roads and green farm fields butt up against the grounds of Meath Park School. Linda Hryciw has commuted here to work as principal since 1998, watching the sunrise and sunset light her way and the combines toil under the harvest moon each fall. “You couldn’t ask for a better […] Read more

Farmers of the future will be knowledgeable and connected, says Brett Fairbairn of the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Speaking to the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan which met in Saskatoon June 14, he said farmers will operate in a new kind of entrepreneurial agricultural environment. “The farmer in the new […] Read more

Vinegar is proving effective in killing common weeds like Canada thistle but it could be used more widely, says researcher Jay Radhakrishnan. A research agronomist with the United States Department of Agriculture in Maryland, Radhakrishnan has received hundreds of e-mails about his research team’s two-year-old study on vinegar herbicides. He found that vinegar in acetic […] Read more

Saskatchewan rural municipalities are hoping for provincial help in paying firefighting bills that run into the millions of dollars. Representatives from six rural municipalities in the Mervin and Loon Lake regions of the province’s northwest met with the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities June 19 to detail their financial predicaments from fighting fires this spring. […] Read more