Pictured L to R: Gloria Evans, Scott Moe, and Cody Glydon
The Saskatchewan government has issued a friendly reminder to all those in the agriculture community to slow down and be safe this spring seeding season. They urge all farmers to follow safety practices when on the farm and out in the field.
Saskatchewan’s Premier, Scott Moe, is a former farmer who’s family still farms in the the Shellbrook area of the province. He says seeding will be delayed around his hometown thanks to a late snowfall.
“Nobody in the Shellbrook area has started seeding, at least they hadn’t when I left on Sunday, and it didn’t look like they were going to start in the next few days,” Moe said. “Hopefully maybe later this week or by the weekend we’d be going.”
Moe says the Shellbrook area was very dry last fall but the winter/spring have replenished moisture levels significantly. His brother and brother-in-law do the majority of the farming in their family now but Moe isn’t totally sure what they will be planting this spring. He suspects canola will most likely be planted, though.
“We’re a big canola area and everybody really pushes their canola acres,” stated Moe. “A lot of oats goes into the area. We’ve been very fortunate with our ability to grow oats over the last 20 years in that area.”
Since becoming Premier of Saskatchewan, Moe has traveled all over the world as part of trade missions and has toured rural areas of various countries to see how others are practicing agriculture. So far he’s thrilled with what he’s seeing in our own province.
“We’re global leading when it comes to what we do,” noted Moe. “The innovation we adopt is quick and is rapid as anywhere in the world and the plant breeding, the genetics, the crop production, the agronomy is as good as anywhere I’ve seen in the world.”
You can our entire interview with Premier Scott Moe below including what colour of equipment his family operates and if they still have any antique machinery still on the farm.
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