Category Archives: CKRM Agriculture

The combines are rolling across the southern Saskatchewan grainbelt. The crop extension specialist in Weyburn, Sherri Roberts, estimates harvest at around 40 percent complete in parts of the southeast...

Closing grain prices Wednesday August 26 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 447.17 Flax 544.85 Lentils 540.00 Oats 170.53 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 222.35  

  Opening grain prices Wednesday August 26 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 446.67 Flax 544.85 Lentils 528.50 Oats 170.53 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 219.29

The Canadian Farmers Almanac is warning Saskatchewan residents to be ready for a stormy winter. Almanac managing editor Sandi Duncan says the temperature will be about normal this winter in Saskatchew...

  Closing grain prices Tuesday August 25 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 444.57 Flax 540.85 Lentils 528.50 Oats 170.53 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 219.20

  Opening grain prices Tuesday August 25 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 444.97 Flax 540.85 Lentils 528.50 Oats 171.82 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 218.04

More than 800 crop damage hail claims have been made across the prairies in the second week of August. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says more than two dozen Sa...

Closing grain prices Monday August 24 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 442.87 Flax 540.85 Lentils 529.50 Oats 171.82 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 215.23

Opening grain prices Monday August 24 Durum 266.39 Feed Barley 161.70 Canola 442.27 Flax 540.85 Lentils 529.50 Oats 171.82 Yellow Peas 244.89 Feed wheat 166.16 1 Red Spring Wheat 217.52

Canadian cattle numbers were down 0.5 percent on July 1st, compared to the same date one year ago. Statistics Canada reports the decline would have been even larger if it weren’t for COVID-19. P...