The Canadian Wheat Board has further lowered its projections for this year’s wheat crop, due to cool temperatures and drought across a large chunk of the Prairies. During its end of the crop year review July 30 in Winnipeg, Ian White, the CWB’s chief executive officer, forecast that western Canadian farmers would produce 20.2 million […] Read more
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CWB downgrades crop prospects
How a weather pattern stole summer
For most of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 2009 is becoming known as the year without a summer. Cool temperatures have prevailed on the eastern Prairies, resulting in the coolest June and July since 1993, said David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada. Using temperatures at Yorkton as an example, Phillips said the average daily high for […] Read more
Coming Events
Aug. 4-9: Exhibition, Prairieland Park, Saskatoon (306-931-7149, www.saskatoonexhibition.ca) Aug. 8-9: Lone Spur Cowboy Gathering, Melville, Sask. (Melville Agri-Park, 306-728-5277, agripark@sasktel.net) Aug. 9-10: North American Fertilizer Transportation Forum, Whistler, B.C. (tfi.org/events/all_events.cfm#NAFTF) Aug. 10-12: Canadian Fertilizer Institute conference, Whistler, B.C. (www.cfi.ca) Aug. 10-14: Canadian Cattlemen’s Association convention and meeting, Travelodge Hotel & Conference Centre, Regina (CCA, 403-275-8558, […] Read more
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Wanted: Stories or photos of the following near Yorkton, Sask: Rosemount School located just east and south and Anemone School just east and north. Also, photos and information on Jacob and Esther Miller who farmed southeast of Yorkton. – Mitchell T. Wlock, Box 452, Yorkton, Sask. S3N 2W4. Haliburton, Sask., school district 100th celebration, Aug […] Read more
Coming Events
July 30: Prairie Farm Leaders meeting, Kelowna, B.C. (APAS, 306-789-7774, info@apas.ca, www.apas.ca) July 30: Field day, Lacombe Research Centre, Lacombe, Alta. (Loree, 403-782-8114, loree.verquin@agr.gc.ca or Kristy, 403-782-8100, ext. 0) July 29-31: Rare Plant Survey Techniques, Saskatoon (Chet 306-668-3940, info@npss.sk.ca) Aug. 4-9: Exhibition, Prairieland Park, Saskatoon (306-931-7149, www.saskatoonexhibition.ca) Aug. 8-9: Lone Spur Cowboy Gathering, Melville, Sask. […] Read more
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Riding Mountain, Man., 125th anniversary, Aug. 6-8, 2010. Trying to locate everyone who has ever called this area home. If you are planning to attend, please send us your name and address to help determine the number of people interested in coming home. Hope you will join us for a weekend of fun and getting […] Read more
FCC funds 4-H
Farm Credit Canada has committed $250,000 per year for the next four years to the FCC 4-H 4-Ever program, which it runs with the Canadian 4-H Council. The program was started in 2006 as a way to raise awareness of 4-H and increase membership. FCC and the 4-H council have expanded the program this year […] Read more
Breeding stock eligible for ’09 tax deferral
For more coming events, see the Community Calendar, section 0300, in the Western Producer Classifieds. Western People
Rain hits late for many
Dean Heintz watched 75 millimetres of rain pour down in less than an hour from his Luseland, Sask., office window July 13. Ten kilometres away at Salvador, Donna Fowler sat on her couch enjoying a lightning show brightening the summer sky. “We didn’t know the storm was bypassing us until (my husband) Jim got a […] Read more
Coming Events
July 24: Organic field day, Agriculture Canada, Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, Swift Current, Sask. (Myriam Fernandez, 306-778-7255, myriam.fernandez@agr.gc.ca) July 24-26: Grasslands Sheep Exhibition, Drake, Sask. (Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders Association, 306-789-9106) July 28-30: Canadian Federation of Agriculture meeting, Kelowna, B.C. (CFA, 613-236-3633, info@cfafca.ca) July 28-31: Western Canada Feedlot Management School, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (306-382-2333, […] Read more
