Limited rainfall has pushed seeding well ahead of the five-year average---but many areas of the province could use moisture for emerging crops. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture weekly crop report says 49 per cent of intended acres had been seeded as of Monday. The five-year average is 32 per cent and the 10-yea...

Lab tests were positive on samples from two cattle that died on a farm in the Rural Municipality of Paynton, about 60 kilometres northwest of North Battleford. The rest of the herd is being vaccinated and no other deaths are expected on that farm. Anthrax spores can remain in the soil for decades. There are periodic ca...

Abbey Norek from Gerald---about 80 kilometres south of Yorkton---is this year's Agriculture Student Scholarship grand-prize winner. Abbey produced a short video and entered it in the competition sponsored by the provincial Ministry of Agriculture. The Grade 12 student attends Esterhazy High School, where she has spearh...

Heath MacDonald is the fourth federal agriculture minister in less than two years. MacDonald was first elected as an MP in 2021 and prior to that was a PEI MLA, who served as that province's finance minister. Grain Growers of Canada executive director Kyle Larkin says McDonald has experience on the agriculture committe...

The first Saskatchewan Agriculture crop report of the year puts seeding at 18 per cent complete--- well ahead of the ten-year average of 12 per cent. Much of the work has been done in the southwest where 43 per cent of the crop is in the ground. The northwest and southeast are next at 15 and 14 per cent respectively. W...

The Canadian Wildlife Health Co-operative Lab reports this year's first avian influenza case in a wild bird was found in the Saskatoon region. Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment biologist Erin Moffatt says most of the dead wild birds sent for testing have come from southern areas of the province. Most of the dead bi...

April started off colder than normal, but rebounded to finish around long-term mean temperatures. Meadow Lake was the warmest at 1.8 degrees above normal while Yorkton was on the other end at 0.4 degrees below normal. April was drier than normal across most of Saskatchewan with the exceptions of Estevan and Swift Curre...

Wild pigs are difficult to find and track on foot---but aerial vehicles equipped with optical and thermal cameras have evened the playing field in limited trials. There was a session about drone use during the online "Wild Pig Summit" held earlier this week. Wayne Lees is with Squeal on Pigs Manitoba. Wild pi...

The Grain Growers of Canada and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) issued news releases congratulating Mark Carney on his election victory---but quickly provided a long list of issues they want the new Liberal government to address. The Grain Growers of Canada wants a reversal of the proposed...

About 200 Holstein and 60 Jersey cows and heifers are at Prairieland for the Western Dairy Expo. Entries are here from as far away as the Okanagan in British Columbia. Megan Baars is working on a dairy farm near Vernon with nine entries at the show, which is being broadcast online with full commentary. Megan was busy w...