Tag Archives: crops

'Everything is dying': Prairie farmers, crops struggling with yearly droughts
REGINA - It's the ninth year in a row Quinton Jacksteit's farm has experienced drought. The southwest Saskatchewan farmer, who also is the reeve for the Rural Municipality of Big Stick, says his crops...
Jeremy Simes Jul 07, 2025 Red lentils are shown growing in a dry field on June 29, 2025, on Quinton Jacksteit's farm near Golden Prairie in southwest Saskatchewan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Quinton Jacksteit

Twister spotted in Weyburn during severe storm
WEYBURN - A twister was spotted behind Wal-Mart in Weyburn at about 6:30 p.m. The tornado warning for southern Saskatchewan has been cancelled. Environment Canada had issued a severe thunderstorm warn...
Sara Parks Jun 27, 2025 The tornado warning for southern Saskatchewan has been cancelled. Mary Fernell photo / Facebook

'Sobering statistic:' One-fifth of pollinators in North America at extinction risk
FREDERICTON - Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North ...
Hina Alam, The Canadian Press Mar 31, 2025 Ale-ks / Depositphotos.com
Limited precipitation helped farmers wrap up harvest
This year's harvest is virtually complete in Saskatchewan, sitting at 99 per cent complete. Little to no rainfall last week allowed farmers to wrap up combining. Producers in the southwest, southeast,...
Harvard Media Oct 17, 2024
Harvest inching closer to 100 per cent complete
Harvest is basically done in Saskatchewan, as progress is at 97 per cent complete. Producers in the southwest are done; the southeast and west-central are wrapping up at 98 per cent, and farmers in th...
Harvard Media Oct 10, 2024
Crop Report: Lack of moisture taking a toll on crops, limited amount of harvest underway
The Provincial Crop Report notes heat and lack of moisture continued to deplete topsoil moisture conditions in cropland, hayland, and pastures around the province, and has caused more heat stress on c...
Harvard Media Aug 01, 2024
Crops catching up to their normal stages of development
A week of warmer weather and reduced rainfall has accelerated crop advancement and enabled haying operations to progress throughout the province. With the forecasted heat over the next week many regio...
Harvard Media Jul 18, 2024

Sask Ag Today Live from Ag in Motion - Behind the Scenes
It takes a lot of work putting on a huge show like Ag in Motion. I like watching videos and seeing pictures of the behind the scenes of events like these. So I'll share our behind the scenes of Sask A...
Harvard Media Jul 17, 2024
Rainfall comes at a good time for producers
A farmer just outside of Regina says he had some moisture in the ground but not enough to say it was adequate. Levi Wood with Westwood Agri Services, southwest of Regina, described the weather conditi...
Harvard Media May 10, 2024
2023 Harvest almost done in Saskatchewan
It's the final leg of this year's harvest in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture's Crop Report notes 91 percent of the crop is combined, up from 82 percent last week, and ahead...
Harvard Media Sep 28, 2023
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