Category Archives: Front Page Headlines

Regina-based Prairie Clean Energy has completed a successful trade mission to Japan. Prairie Clean Energy is developing a waste flax straw pelleting plant. CEO Mark Cooper says the flax straw pellets ...

Agriculture Canada says it is making progress in battling blackleg disease in canola. The fungal disease is a serious threat for canola, which generates about one quarter of all farm crop receipts in ...

30 year old Michael Swan Thorne is facing numerous weapons charges – including unauthorized possession and reckless discharge of a weapon after he allegedly fired a gun at a home just after 7:45...

Crops are ripening quickly with harvest about to start in southeast Saskatchewan. The provincial crops extension specialist in Weyburn, Sherri Roberts, says a few crops are ready for harvest this week...

The federal government is providing up to 3 million dollars to three national organizations to enhance animal welfare. Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says the organizations will draw on new ...

  The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is showing support for farmers worried about federal proposals on fertilizer use. The CFIB is imploring the federal government not to mandate red...

The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Sa...

  The latest market outlook from Nutrien says global grain stocks-to-use ratios remain well below average levels, which should continue to support crop prices. The outlook says prices for key cro...

  The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so fa...

  Saskatchewan residents could face a tough winter again this coming year. The editor of the Farmers Almanac, Peter Geiger, says weather will turn cold in late fall. He says the coming winter wil...