Insights and Stories on Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan offers up corn rainfall insurance plan

Mar. 10, 2019 at 3:00 am CDT

Saskatchewan’s crop insurance offerings for 2019 will include a new program allowing corn growers to insure against a substantial drop in moisture. The provincial and federal government on Feb. 26 rolled out Saskatchewan’s 2019 crop insurance program, in which coverage levels on average are to reach a record $230 per […]

Livestock tax deferral map expands again for 2018

Jan. 30, 2019 at 7:05 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Viterra closes deal for Gardiner Dam Terminal

Dec. 29, 2018 at 6:21 am CST

By GFM Staff

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Dec. 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm CST

By GFM Staff

European malting giant to buy Cargill Malt business

Dec. 20, 2018 at 1:16 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Fall rye’s popularity catching on Prairies

Dec. 7, 2018 at 5:02 pm CST

CNS Canada — It’s good and bad news when it comes to winter cereal acreage in Western Canada. Winter wheat acres in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are down this fall, while acreage in Alberta increased, and fall rye acres in all provinces rose. “I think a lot of the guys that […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Saskatchewan farm truckers exempt on new training rule

Dec. 6, 2018 at 6:10 am CST

Saskatchewan semi truck drivers driving only for farming operations will get a pass on the province’s planned new mandatory minimum trucker training requirements. The province announced Monday it will require a minimum of 121.5 hours of training before a driver can obtain a Class 1 commercial driver’s licence, starting March […]

By Dave Bedard

Rye prices as good as they’re going to get

Dec. 4, 2018 at 8:23 pm CST

CNS Canada — At more than $7 per bushel for rye in Western Canada, Cal Vandaele believes the price has topped off. “There’s been bids touching $8,” said Vandaele, of Vandaele Seed at Medora, Man., about 120 km southwest of Brandon, adding the price will decline over the winter. “When […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

AGT’s privatization to proceed

Dec. 4, 2018 at 12:14 pm CST

CNS Canada — AGT Food and Ingredients has announced a definitive agreement to take the publicly-traded Saskatchewan pulse and durum processing and export firm private. If all conditions are met, the deal is expected to go through in the first quarter of 2019. The buyer group, including AGT CEO Murad […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Klassen: Feeder market searching for direction

Dec. 4, 2018 at 1:10 am CST

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were quite variable from seven days earlier. Prices were unchanged in the eastern Prairie regions; however, Alberta markets traded $3 to as much as $7 below week-ago levels. Alberta and Saskatchewan feedlot inventories are running 16 per cent above year-ago levels, so there’s limited buying […]

By Jerry Klassen