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Degelman Industries unveiled a new product at the Launch Pad during Canada’s Farm Show on Tuesday. The HDSR series of staggered ripper is being introduced in Canada after a soft launch in the United States over the last eight months, said Derek Molnar, Director of Marketing for Degelman Industries at the show. “It’s not so […]

Canada’s Farm Show has been held in June for the last 46 years, but after this year it will be moving a few months back, starting next year. It was announced on Tuesday the annual three-day event, formerly known as Canada’s Farm Progress Show, would move to March. “We did a lot of research, we […]

The Global AgTech Summit is featured in the first half of the second day of Canada’s Farm Show on Wednesday. The Summit begins at 10:15 a.m. with a panel discussion featuring alumni from the AgTech Accelerator Program, as they will share “experiences, challenges, and visions for driving innovation in AgTech” according to the description on […]

REAL District in Regina will be full of activity this week as Day one of Canada’s Farm Show gets underway Tuesday. It begins with the Premier’s Breakfast Tuesday morning, as Premier Scott Moe will deliver a “State of Agriculture in Saskatchewan” address. The Launch Pad, located in Hall A of the Viterra International Trade Centre, […]

Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), a Saskatchewan-based company, is embarking on a crowdfunding campaign with a goal to raise $1.5 million. As of Friday evening, over $930-thousand has been raised through Front Fundr, an online private market investing platform. “Crowdfunding is really all about bringing investment opportunities and investment experience to everyday Canadians, so under current […]

Seeding is as close to complete as it gets, as 98 per cent of the 2024 crop is now in the ground, according to the provincial crop report for the period of June 4 to 10. Rain continued to delay producers in the northeast and east-central regions from continuing seeding operations with a few reporting […]

Demand for beef is expected to stay high even though the cattle herd has declined in Canada and the United States and beef prices are relatively high. Anne Wasko, president of Cattle Trends provided a detailed Beef Market Outlook to the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association AGM and Convention on Monday. “I really focused on the […]

The 111th Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) AGM & Convention is set for next week in Swift Current. President of the Stock Growers Garner Deobald says the theme this year is “reaching new heights”. “Reaching new heights is something that I think we all aspire to,” Deobald explained. “With markets where they’re at, being at […]

The Provincial Auditor followed up on whether the Water Security Agency (WSA) implemented any of its recommendations made in the 2018 audit. As of April of this year, the WSA has made some progress on recommendations on regulating drainage of water on agricultural lands, fully implementing four of them and partially implementing another five.  The WSA […]

Within the next week, farmers should be done seeding as the provincial crop report has progress at 94 per cent complete. It’s up from 77 per cent last week but remains behind the 5-year and 10-year averages of 97 per cent complete for this time of year. Despite rain delays, farmers in each region made […]