Category Archives: CKRM Agriculture

SaskPork has set up a hotline for residents to report sightings of wild boars. SaskPork general manager Mark Ferguson says wild pigs are considered an invasive species, introduced 20 to 30 years ago, ...

  Closing grain prices Friday Oct 8 Durum 682.53 Feed barley 324.65 Canola 900.32 Flax 1232.41 Lentils 1036.50 Oats 445.53 Yellow peas 544.89 Feed wheat 261.65 1 Red Spring Wheat 403.00

APAS has announced the participants in this year’s Youth Leadership and Mentorship Program. The program matches farmers between 18 and 40 with a farm leader over the age of 40 to learn about far...

  Opening grain prices Friday Oct 8 Durum 682.53 Feed barley 324.65 Canola 904.52 Flax 1232.41 Lentils 1036.50 Oats 445.53 Yellow peas 544.89 Feed wheat 261.65 1 Red Spring Wheat 403.66

The latest SaskWheat outlook warns of a possible market disruption from a new genetically modified wheat in Argentina. The outlook, prepared by Marlene Boersch of Mercantile Consulting, says controver...

  Closing grain prices Thursday Oct 7 Durum 682.53 Feed barley 324.65 Canola 900.72 Flax 1232.41 Lentils 1036.50 Oats 436.53 Yellow peas 544.89 Feed wheat 261.65 1 Red Spring Wheat 404.45

Harvest has reached 99 percent complete across Saskatchewan. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says combining is well ahead of the 5 year average of 79 percent for this date. He say...

  Opening grain prices Thursday Oct 7 Durum 682.53 Feed barley 324.65 Canola 893.82 Flax 1232.41 Lentils 1036.50 Oats 436.53 Yellow peas 544.89 Feed wheat 261.65 1 Red Spring Wheat 404.64

APAS has launched a task force to work on a new five year federal-provincial agriculture funding agreement. President Todd Lewis says the federal-provincial agriculture ministers will discuss the next...

  Closing grain prices Wednesday Oct 6 Durum 682.53 Feed barley 324.65 Canola 896.22 Flax 1232.41 Lentils 1036.50 Oats 436.53 Yellow peas 544.89 Feed wheat 261.65 1 Red Spring Wheat 404.22