Category Archives: CKRM Agriculture

Opening grain prices Wednesday May 5 Durum 290.27 Feed barley 267.68 Canola 858.77 Flax 697.63 Lentils 722.50 Oats 209.53 Yellow peas 383.70 Feed wheat 238.84 1 Red Spring Wheat 331.72

Environment Canada says precipitation in Regina last month was 77 percent below normal. Meteorologist Terri Lang says Regina had 5.6 millimeters of precipitation last month, well below the average of ...

  Closing grain prices Tuesday May 4 Durum 290.27 Feed barley 267.68 Canola 835.57 Flax 697.63 Lentils 722.50 Oats 209.53 Yellow peas 383.70 Feed wheat 238.84 1 Red Spring Wheat 333.22

Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were mainly lower during the past week. The average weekly steer price was $214.54 per hundredweight. Feeder heifers were mixed but mainly lower. The weekly average f...

  Opening grain prices Tuesday May 4 Durum 290.27 Feed barley 267.68 Canola 820.57 Flax 697.63 Lentils 722.50 Oats 209.53 Yellow peas 383.70 Feed wheat 238.84 1 Red Spring Wheat 331.32

Construction is about to start on a $22-million fertilizer supercentre near Belle Plaine, west of Regina. Project lead, Terry Drabuik, says construction will begin early this month on the Genesis fert...

  Closing grain prices Monday May 3 Durum 290.27 Feed barley 267.68 Canola 805.57 Flax 697.63 Lentils 722.50 Oats 209.53 Yellow peas 383.70 Feed wheat 238.84 1 Red Spring Wheat 327.92

  The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition, composed of the 3 prairie wheat commissions, has committed 2 million dollars over 5 years to a wheat breeding program at the University of Alberta. The in...

  Opening grain prices Monday May 3 Durum 290.27 Feed barley 267.68 Canola 809.27 Flax 697.63 Lentils 705.47 Oats 209.53 Yellow peas 383.70 Feed wheat 238.84 1 Red Spring Wheat 331.08

Saskatchewan farmers are looking at improved prospects for canola sales to the European Union. The EU is phasing out the use of palm oil in biofuel because of concern over the destruction of forests f...