In an era of social media and the rapid spread of misinformation, what the public thinks about farming practices can have a big impact on producers’ livelihoods.
Stories by Paul Yanko
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VIDEO: Biologicals company celebrates ‘new beginning’
It’s pretty common to celebrate the milestones in life, and the folks at Saskatoon’s Novonesis lab and production facility are no different. The company, formerly known as Novozymes, specializes in plant biosolutions, and for one day during the recent Crop Production Show, it opened the doors to its state-of-the-art facility to mark a number of […] Read more
Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame announces 2025 inductees at Crop Production Show
Six new inductees to the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame were announced at the 2025 Crop Production Show in Saskatoon today. Among this year’s inductees is Bob Bors, former head of the Fruit Program in the Plant Sciences Department at the University of Saskatchewan. To say that Bors was thrilled to learn he was being […] Read more
Winter wonderland – photo essay
A heavy dump of snow over parts of the Prairies late last month rapidly transformed the region from fall-like conditions to something more closely resembling Christmas. These photos were taken on an acreage southeast of Delisle, Sask. | Paul Yanko photos
New solar storm threatens to wreak havoc
It looks like a warm and beautiful autumn day southwest of Saskatoon, but beyond those puffy white clouds, an electromagnetic storm is raging that we cannot see. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, issued a warning Thursday after a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit […] Read more
Recent solar flare has little impact
A precision ag expert says a massive solar flare that occurred late last week may not end up causing too many problems after all. Matt Yanick, owner of My Precision Ag Ltd., says the flare that various space weather monitoring stations detected Oct. 3 doesn’t seem to have too caused many issues at all. “I […] Read more
VIDEO: System uses grain quality to create field zones
CropScan can analyze moisture, protein, fibre, starch and oil for multiple crops on the fly while the combine is operating
LANGHAM, Sask. — Dean Scrivens thinks CropScan Ag’s on-combine grain analyzer is an innovative tool. Recently, this was confirmed at the Ag in Motion farm show. CropScan was rewarded for its work with an Ag in Motion Innovation Award in the agronomics category for its CropScan 4000 VT. “Winning that award was great. We’ve never […] Read more
VIDEO: Winter camelina a new oilseed option?
The crop is very competitive and gets ahead of the weeds in the spring, even on land where canola crops struggle
SASKATOON — It’s hard to miss Darcy Friesen’s farm when you’re approaching it from the south. On a mid-June day, his brilliant green, knee-high camelina crop is about to bloom and dwarfs everything else nearby, and so it should. Friesen planted the crop last fall. “I grew some spring camelina a couple years ago, I […] Read more
Theft a problem but real headache is cost of repair
A stolen truck, lovingly referred to as “the Sister of PigPen”, has been found, but the damage swirling in its wake, like the dust of the Peanuts character namesake, remains a problem. Early on March 31, Easter Sunday morning, two people were captured on video surveillance in the compound of the Twin Valley Co-op location […] Read more
