farming

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 Ag Today at Ag in Motion. To your left, the behind the scenes dream team. […]

There is an old saying, “you can’t fight the tax collector”. The Sask. Party Government is trying to prove that wrong in its on-going fight over carbon tax money Ottawa says Saskatchewan owes. All of this is over the Saskatchewan’s outright opposition to the carbon tax in the first place. A case it lost in […]

Seeding is virtually complete across Saskatchewan with just one percent of acres left and that is because of all of the rain we have been enjoying, and cursing this spring. The highest rainfall recorded was around Rosthern, with 95 mm. The Nipawin area reported 75 mm followed by the Biggar area at 72 mm. Although […]

The year was 1924. William Lyon Mackenzie King was the Prime Minister of Canada, the world’s first winter Olympics were held in France, IBM was founded, and Emile Bourassa started up his farm equipment dealership in Radville, SK. Bourassa originally started selling coal and wood before transitioning into selling Cockshutt, Massey Harris, and John Deere […]

One of the best things about being on location for various fundraising lotteries is the ability to tour many of the amazing small towns we have in Saskatchewan. This week I found myself in the small community of Limerick just a short drive west of Assiniboia on Highway 13. One of the first homesteaders in […]

Foggy. Kids to School. Off to the dentist Diary entries that were short and too the point.

If there is a topic or an event that requires a prop chances are I’m going to have something that represents. It just requires going to the tickle trunk. And I have many of them! Today, it was the ERTL 1991 die-cast Massey-Ferguson 3050 tractor with front end-loader and attachments. I knew exactly where to […]

Working at 620 CKRM teaches a person a lot about the agriculture industry in this province and how much it has changed over the years. Events like Canada’s Farm Show, Agribition, Ag in Motion, and even our Country Cookouts show people how big farming has become. First and foremost, the sheer size of machinery is […]

It’s an area of farmland Ryan Maurer says is worth as much as a Lamborghini. High run-off flooded one of his fields in spring 2022, leaving shallow pools of water. This was before the farmer opened ditches to drain it. “Would you take your Lamborghini and park it in a slough?” Maurer asked on his […]

An Esterhazy area farmer says when you plant 52-thousand acres, you have a lot riding on your crops. Hrushka Farms near Esterhazy is certainly one of the largest grain farms in Saskatchewan. Rain has been hit-and-miss this summer and Kevin Hrushka says that has impacted crop development, saying the north end of his land looks […]