The first agricultural show of the year begins Tuesday morning at Saskatoon Prairieland Park.

The Western Canadian Crop Production Show has a full house as usual with 338 companies and organizations filling more than one-thousand exhibit spaces.

The event has been slimmed down to three days from the usual three-and-a-half.

Farmers will check out the big equipment, various farm inputs and all of the other services provided by the agricultural sector.

The chief agricultural editor of SaskAgToday.com, Kevin Hursh says lower grain prices, tighter margins and dry conditions will be on the minds of producers attending this year’s event.

Also on tap Tuesday will be the annual general meetings for SaskWheat, SaskFlax, SaskBarley, SaskCanola and the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. Financial and research updates will be provided. The new 2023 clubroot map will also be released at the SaskCanola meeting. All five of the producer commission meetings are being held at the Western Development Museum.

You can listen to CJWW Agriculture Director Neil Billinger’s two-part interview with Kevin Hursh below: