Category Archives: CKRM Agriculture

Over the last four years, more than 500 firefighters have been trained to rescue people trapped in grain bins located on-farm or at commercial grain terminals. BeGrainSafe was developed by the Canadia...

Closing grain prices Wednesday Jan 6 Durum 299.46 Feed barley 234.70 Canola 609.47 Flax 693.37 Lentils 572.50 Oats 225.53 Yellow peas 334.89 Feed wheat 183.72 1 Red Spring Wheat 256.68

The Saskatoon-based Western Grains Research Foundation has announced support of 284 thousand dollars for the University of Alberta Breton Plots. Board chair Dr. Keith Degenhardt says the Foundation ha...

Opening grain prices Wednesday Jan 6 Durum 299.46 Feed barley 234.70 Canola 611.77 Flax 693.37 Lentils 572.50 Oats 225.53 Yellow peas 334.89 Feed wheat 183.72 1 Red Spring Wheat 257.99

The president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers remains hopeful 2021 will see improved livestock prices. Cattle prices were pushed downward last year after Covid-19 forced temporary closures at meatpa...

Closing grain prices Tuesday Jan 5 Durum 299.46 Feed barley 234.70 Canola 606.77 Flax 693.37 Lentils 572.50 Oats 225.53 Yellow peas 334.89 Feed wheat 183.72 1 Red Spring Wheat 259.21

  Three Saskatchewan farming communities are winners in the BASF InVigor Community Challenge. BASF is donating 40 thousand dollars to 8 communities across the 3 prairie provinces. The winners wer...

Opening grain prices Tuesday Jan 5 Durum 299.46 Feed barley 234.70 Canola 604.37 Flax 693.37 Lentils 572.50 Oats 225.53 Yellow peas 334.89 Feed wheat 183.72 1 Red Spring Wheat 259.88

CP Rail set a record grain movement of 31.3 million tons in calendar year 2020. The president of APAS, Todd Lewis, says both railways have seen booming grain exports this past year. He calls it good n...

December was dry in Saskatchewan, continuing a pattern that stretched over much of the year. Moose Jaw had its lowest precipitation in 104 years of record keeping. The 179.6 millimetres was just under...