GX94 Agriculture

Weather in the last month of 2024 for Saskatchewan brought a mixture of freezing rain and snow as well as cold and warm temperatures. Environment Canada Meteorologist Danielle Desjardins says December started colder than normal before warm Pacific air came through to bring temperatures up. The cold returned in the middle of the month then […]

CANOLA MAR  628.50  up 6.80CANOLA MAY  635.40  up 7.80MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT MAR  5.85  down 9 3/4KANSAS CITY WHEAT MAR  5.50 1/4  down 5 1/2CHICAGO WHEAT MAR  5.36 1/4  down 6 1/4CORN MAR  4.54  down 4                 SOYBEANS MAR  9.94 1/4  down 2 3/4OATS MAR  3.24  down 2LIVE CATTLE FEB  193.70  […]

Saskatchewan Agriculture’s 2025 Crop Planning Guide is now available on-line. Printed versions will be available at the Crop Production Show next week in Saskatoon and also at regional offices. Some crops show a profit over and above total costs, but many cropping options do not. The Crop Planning Guide uses two yield assumptions – a […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 76% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 21, a notable improvement from the 64% order fulfillment performance seen in week 20.  That’s according to the Ag Transport Coalition. In supplying 67% of cars ordered by shippers in week 21 – CN performance improved significantly from the 39% […]

Manitoba Agriculture has released its 2025 cost of production analysis for crops and the picture isn’t rosy. All 16 crops in the Manitoba analysis show a return over operating costs, but only pinto beans show a return over total costs. That return is small and pinto beans are a minor acreage crop with only 111,000 […]

Farm groups are digesting an announcement made Monday morning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said he is resigning as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister, once the party selects its next leader. Speaking in front of Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Trudeau also announced the Governor General granted his request of […]

CANOLA MAR  625.80  up 1.80CANOLA MAY  631.80  up 3.10MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT MAR  5.92 1/4  up 14 1/4KANSAS CITY WHEAT MAR  5.53 1/4  up 14 1/4CHICAGO WHEAT MAR  5.40 1/2  up 11 1/4CORN MAR  4.57 3/4  up 7                SOYBEANS MAR  9.97 3/4  up 6OATS MAR  3.31  up 8 3/4LIVE CATTLE FEB  […]

A cross-Canada research project will attempt to reduce methane production by finding rumen efficiencies. Dr. Leluo Guan from the University of British Columbia was recent awarded $7.9 million from the National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Animal Function Genomics and Microbiome. Other researchers working with Guan […]

On the first SaskAgToday.com Roundtable of 2025 with Kevin Hursh, Chief Agricultural Editor of SaskAgToday.com, Ryan Young, 620 CKRM AgriNews Director, and Doug Falconer, GX94 Agriculture Director: -Canola and wheat futures are still in a feeling out process in the early days of 2025 as prices trended sideways. -Several agriculture events are coming up in […]

CANOLA MAR  624.00  down 1.00CANOLA MAY  628.70  down 3.80MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT MAR  5.77 3/4  down 11 3/4KANSAS CITY WHEAT MAR  5.39  down 12 3/4CHICAGO WHEAT MAR  5.29 1/4  down 16 1/2CORN MAR  4.50 3/4  down 8 3/4               SOYBEANS MAR  9.91 3/4  down 20 1/4OATS MAR  3.22 1/4  down 7 1/4LIVE […]