A group of cattle stand in the water of a dugout.

Sask. makes water, vacant land available

Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency has announced it will make water and vacant land available to farmers and livestock producers during the drought. The agency owns and manages land across the province and those who live near these lands can contact it to see if under-used or vacant land is available. “With the well-below normal amounts […] Read more

A windmill is seen in the distance through the strands of a barbed-wire fence surrounding a brown, dry pasture.

‘It’s a disaster’

Saskatchewan has seen its cattle numbers drop by nearly 20 percent in the past two years with the province hosting the second-largest beef herd in Canada behind Alberta.