GX94 Agriculture

PROVINCE-WIDE The continued heat and lack of moisture has accelerated crop advancement throughout the province.  With the current conditions crops throughout many regions are stressed, causing yield potential to further decline this week.  Producers are hoping for moisture to help with head and pod filling on later seeded crops but for many advanced crops, any […]

CANOLA NOV  608.80, down 15.10 CANOLA JAN  616.80, down 15.20 MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT SEP  588-1/2, up 7 KANSAS CITY WHEAT SEP  554-1/2, up 5-1/2 CHICAGO WHEAT SEP  532 even, up 4-3/4 CORN SEP  382 even, down 3/4 SOYBEANS SEP  1009 even,  down 5-1/2 OATS SEP  322-1/2, down 3-3/4 LIVE CATTLE OCT  183.72, down 2.95 LIVE CATTLE […]

The Provincial Crop Report notes heat and lack of moisture continued to deplete topsoil moisture conditions in cropland, hayland, and pastures around the province, and has caused more heat stress on crops. The continued heat has also caused yield potential to decline with producers in the southern region indicating an “increase in the amount of […]

Looking back on his time as CEO of Regina-based Protein Industries Canada, Bill Greuel said he enjoyed every minute of it. Wednesday was Greuel’s last day in the role which he was in since Protein Industries Canada was formed in October 2018. “On day one, you open up a blank computer and you kind of […]

Tributes and stories have poured in over the last two days since news came of Lyle Stewart’s passing on Tuesday. Stewart died at the age of 73 following a lengthy battle with cancer. In a Facebook post, Premier Scott Moe said Stewart, “was a man of few words, which is unusual for a politician, but […]

Weekly Provincial Summary Fall rye and winter wheat are drying down with fields between hard dough and physiological maturity. The earliestfall rye fields will likely be harvested this week. Most corn fields are between V10 to silking. Many corn fieldsremain uneven although the problem has improved with the warm weather in the last few weeks. […]

CANOLA NOV  623.90, up 6.20 CANOLA JAN  632.00, up 7.00 MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT SEP  581-1/2, down 3 KANSAS CITY WHEAT SEP  549 even, down 1-1/4 CHICAGO WHEAT SEP  527-1/4, up 3-1/4 CORN SEP  382-3/4, down 6 SOYBEANS SEP  1014-1/2, up 3-1/2 OATS SEP  326-1/4, up 1/4 LIVE CATTLE OCT  186.67, down 0.77 LIVE CATTLE DEC  187.87, […]

Lyle Stewart, former Agriculture Minister and SaskParty MLA for Thunder Creek and Lumsden-Morse from 1999 until his retirement from politics last year, has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 73. Premier Scott Moe made the announcement on Facebook Tuesday. Moe described Stewart as “a man of few words…but you always knew […]

Two farm groups are calling on the federal government, CPKC and CN Rail, and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) that represents workers at both railways, to do whatever it takes to prevent a national strike from happening. The Wheat Growers and Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) are concerned about job action occurring right […]

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has been cracking down on grain companies not paying farmers for their delivery. Back on March 25, the CGC removed the grain dealer licence and a primary elevator licence for an elevator in Holland, Manitoba from Zeghers Seed Inc, also known as Zeghers Canada. A review of individual producer claims […]