Agriculture News
UFA joins partnership with University of Saskatchewan
Alberta-based UFA Co-operative Ltd. has announced that it will be sponsoring a business start-up initiative out of the University of Saskatchewan. Established just last year, Opus is a startup incubator that provides new entrepreneurs with the tools needed to build successful ventures on the USask campus. The collabora...
Mar 27, 2024
Interest-free limit on Advance Payments Program will be $250,000 in 2024
The federal government has decided against lowering the interest-free limit on the Advance Payments Program, also known as the cash advance. The program helps farmers cover input costs until their products have been sold and the advance paid back. The cash advance had a $100,000 interest free limit until 2021. Followi...
Mar 25, 2024
Agrologists receive annual awards
Five individuals and one organization were honored by the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists on Thursday. Two faculty members from the University of Saskatchewan received the Distinguished Agrologist Award. Dr. Sabine Banniza is a well known plant pathologist specializing in pulse crop diseases such as aphanomyces. ...
Mar 22, 2024
Australian canola challenging Canada in some Asia-Pacific markets----but not China
Australia has been eating into Canada's canola market share in Japan---but Canadian canola remains the number one choice in China. Jarrett Beatty is the Director of Marketing (Seed Exports) for Parrish & Heimbecker. Jarrett Beatty is the Director of Marketing (Seed Exports) for Parrish and Heimbecker. He made his c...
Mar 19, 2024
Rural municipalities want changes to provincial road program
The Rural Integrated Roads for Growth program---also known as RIG---has been around for a couple of decades. The provincial government provides up to 50 percent of each project's total cost to a maximum of $500,000. Each individual RM covers the rest and program administration is handled by SARM. Last year, the provinc...
Mar 18, 2024
SARM President will not seek re-election in 2025
Ray Orb from Cupar has led the association representing 296 rural municipalities for the last nine years. Orb was first elected to the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities Board of Director in 2004. Orb and his wife Val, who is the mayor of Cupar, plan to spend more time at their seasonal campsite along Lak...
Mar 15, 2024
Average Saskatchewan farmland increase highest in the country last year
The Farm Credit Canada annual farmland values report says the national increase was 11.5 percent last year---just a bit less than the 12.8 per cent reported in 2022. There were four provinces that had average farmland value increases in the double digits: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan. The average farmland...
Mar 12, 2024
Water Security Agency runoff forecast improves following recent snow
The spring runoff potential has improved in some areas, but the majority of Saskatchewan remains in the below normal or well below normal categories. Snowstorms during the first weekend of March delivered up to 40 centimetres of snow in some locations, such as Saskatoon and Yorkton. These areas can now anticipate a nea...
Mar 12, 2024
Provincial government renews funding commitment to GIFS
The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan is part of the agri-science hub at Innovation Place. Founded in 2012, GIFS works with its partners to provide expertise and leadership in the discovery, development and delivery of innovative solutions to produce globally sustainable food. ...
Mar 12, 2024
Saskatchewan farmers planning on seeding more durum, lentils, peas and oats in 2024
Falling grain and oilseed prices have more farmers gravitating towards pulses, but the traditional canola and spring wheat still remain number one and two in Saskatchewan. Statistics Canada surveyed over 3,200 provincial farmers from mid-December through mid-January. Durum is pegged to rise more than five per cent to 5...
Mar 11, 2024