Karen Morrison

Saskatchewan farmers are usually desiccating lentils by this time of year but not this summer. “Most are finding it still a bit early to do that,” said Dale Risula, cropping management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Moose Jaw. He said canola is green but should be ripening by now and barley should also be starting […] Read more

DAVIDSON, Sask. – It started with trading matchbooks at grade school and evolved into a 42-year business in antiques and collectibles for Bing Dobson. This summer the resident of Lumsden, Sask., bid farewell to the rosemaled chests, piano lamps and see-no-evil monkeys of his Cobweb Corner store at an auction in the Davidson rink. Dealing […] Read more

With his tool belt sagging under the weight of clippers, pliers, screwdrivers and metal pokes, Rodolfo Hernandez cruises the nursery in a golf cart in the blanketing July heat. White teeth flash from behind a mustache-framed smile as he explains in broken English how he left behind a wife and two children in Mexico to […] Read more

After years of stalled development and funding droughts, Saskatchewan irrigators are eying hopeful signs on the horizon. The Canada-Saskatchewan Water Supply Expansion Program, announced in May, will make $12.5 million available over the next two years to plan and develop agricultural water projects. The Saskatchewan government will contribute an additional $7.5 million of in-kind support. […] Read more

WALDHEIM, Sask. – The steady rain saturating the ground at Kim and Carsten Mildenstein’s family farm starkly contrasts with the last two drought years in this central Saskatchewan region. Such unco-operative weather fails to dampen the family’s optimistic outlook about their move to Saskatchewan from southern Alberta. Kim said recent hard times in farming reminds […] Read more

Two women who were teachers and two men born in Denmark make up the four citizens living in Redvers, Sask., who are older than the town. The southeastern Saskatchewan town turns 100 at the end of July. But the four citizens, who will be in the town’s parade and dedicating a cairn to the rural […] Read more

Bruce Taras will be paying 51 percent more for the water piped to his farm home outside Saskatoon next spring. The grain farmer received a letter from Sask Water indicating the non-commercial rate for treated, potable water will increase to $7 per 1,000 gallons in April 2005 from the current $4.55. “We understand prices have […] Read more

Outlook, Sask.- Trench planting of saskatoons can create instant bushes in newly planted orchards, says Clarence Peters, fruit specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture. “It stays in clumps and doesn’t later sucker from the main crown,” he said. Saskatchewan fruit growers got a first-hand look at the irrigated rows of deeply planted bushes just poking above ground […] Read more

Plant-based oils in cattle rations can improve digestibility, reduce methane gas emissions and enhance the nutritional content of meat, says an expert at the University of Saskatchewan. Vern Racz, director of the Prairie Feed Resource Centre at the university, said the use of off-grade canola, flax, sunflowers or soybeans to replace animal-based fats and oils […] Read more

OUTLOOK, Sask. – The loss of a native fruit specialist in Saskatchewan this year will hurt the province’s fledgling fruit industry, says grower Myrna Engelberts. Engelberts grows saskatoons and strawberries at Crocus Gardens near Blucher, Sask., with her son Tony and hopes to add a winery to the operation one day. The Engelberts often turned […] Read more