Like their spring cousins, winter cereals across the Prairies are in need of a serious drink of water. “Moisture is critical at this point. If we don’t get rain in the next two to three weeks we’re going to be looking at reduced yields in the winter cereals just because there’s not enough moisture there […] Read more
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VIDEO: Ag in Motion prepares for fifth show
Seed plots are going in the ground as the Saskatchewan agricultural show gets ready for the July 16-18 event
LANGHAM, Sask. — Living up to its name, Glacier FarmMedia’s Ag in Motion has reached its five-year anniversary with no sign of slowing down. “It’s very exciting for me personally to have a show that the group of us started from a canola field into an event that’s now grown to the size that it […] Read more
Farm safety goes to the kids
About 450 Grade 4 students experienced interactive, hands-on activities about outdoor safety practices as well as living a healthy lifestyle during the eighth annual Progressive Agriculture Safety Day held May 9 at the Lloydminster Agricultural Exhibition. Classrooms of students from several Lloydminster schools rotated between nine different stations that included animal and grain safety, firearms […] Read more
New Holland plays a duet with Sask. country band
Members of the Hunter Brothers already use the company’s equipment on their farm in southern Saskatchewan and are now taking the partnership to a new level with a formal agreement
New Holland and Canadian country music sensations the Hunter Brothers are partnering up. It’s already a well-established match but now the ag equipment manufacturer and the country music band hope to move the relationship further along. The five brothers from Shaunavon, Sask., are topping Canadian country music charts and they’re also farmers and long-time New […] Read more
Grass fire forces producers to forage for greener pastures
“Black,” is how Rob Danychuk described pasture conditions in a region of central Saskatchewan ravaged by fire. It’s been more than a week since fire burned a large grazing area and wildlife preserve southwest of Biggar. Fuelled by wind, the cause unknown, the fire took four days to extinguish. It has left cattle producers scrambling […] Read more
VIDEO: Show and grow synonymous with AIM
LANGHAM, Sask. — Living up to its name, Glacier FarmMedia’s Ag in Motion has reached its five-year anniversary with no sign of slowing down. “It’s very exciting for me personally to have a show that the group of us started from a canola field into an event that’s now grown to the size that it […] Read more
A Canadian ‘peasant’ visits China
In 1971, when a delegation to China needed a peasant to satisfy chairman Mao Zedong, a Sask. farm woman stepped in
When the call went out in 1971 for a “Canadian peasant” to form part of a delegation to China, Biggar, Sask., resident Evelyn Potter responded. Little did she know then that the photographs she took to document the journey would form a new exhibit now on display at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre at the University […] Read more
Hairy vetch cover crops provide mulch, control weeds
The key to organic rotational no-till lies in the amount of mulch cover, said a research technician. The key is also understanding that tillage will be necessary at some point to control weeds, said Keith Bamford of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Since 2007, Bamford has been studying […] Read more
Great grain mystery: whodunnit?
Piles of grain left along Highway 5 in British Columbia have Warren Chayer perplexed and frustrated. “We’ve got a problem here to a certain degree of grain trucks dumping grain. I’m kind of at my wit’s end to have these grain piles all over the place and bears feeding on them and then bears having […] Read more
Retail chain and its suppliers make sustainability a focus
Firms such as Maple Leaf Foods, Unilever Canada and Agropure join Walmart Canada’s Project Gigaton, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain
Walmart Canada is joining an initiative to reduce emissions from its global supply chains. “I’m very pleased to announce that externally we’re going to be launching Project Gigaton in Canada, which is a big deal for us,” Walmart Canada president Lee Tappenden said April 10. The kick-off coincided with Walmart’s annual Sustainability Milestone Summit in […] Read more
