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The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, the Honourable Bernadette McIntyre, and her husband, Mr. Rich McIntyre had a private audience with King Charles today at Buckingham Palace.

Their Honours presented the King with lentil and chickpea snacks from the Three Farmers company of Saskatoon. Saskatchewan is a major producer of pulse crops.

A jar of Savoury Dill Pickle Mustard from Gravelbourg Mustard. The province is the world’s largest exporter of mustard seed.

Alberta's Agriculture Financial Services Corporation put together the first crop report of the season. 

Manglai a product coordinator with AFSC, says provincially there's now 23 per cent of the 2025 crop is now in the ground, thawhich t's well ahead of the 5-year average of 12 per cent, and the 10-year average of 14 per cent.

"Regionally - the South leads with 50 per cent of all crops seeded, followed by the Central Region at 22 per cent, the Peace Region at 10 per cent, the North West at 8 per cent, and the North East at 6 per cent."

The Saskatchewan Health Authority making the public aware of possible measles exposure risks in Saskatoon, Swift Current, Outlook, Assiniboia, Gravelbourg and Ponteix.

If you have been to any of the locations listed below during the specific times, you are asked to monitor for measles symptoms for up to 21 days after exposure:

Saskatoon

Production is expected to recover by 70 million tonnes due to favourable conditions, while demand will rise by 45 million tonnes

SASKATOON — The global grain outlook for 2025-26 is incredibly balanced, says an analyst.

The International Grains Council (IGC) is forecasting 2.373 billion tonnes of production and an identical 2.373 billion tonnes of demand.

“We’re looking at quite a finely balanced fundamental picture for grains,” Helen Plant, senior analyst for the United Kingdom’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, said in a recent webinar.

The Prairie South School Division’s board of education has approved starting the process to sell Empire and Westmount schools, pending approval from the Ministry of Education. 

In order to list the schools for sale, the division must first receive permission from the ministry. Prairie South sent a request letter to the ministry on April 7 and is currently awaiting a response. 

Prairie South superintendent of business and chief financial officer Ron Purdy said the division is also seeking approval to use a real estate agent for the sale. 

Moose Jaw city council approved its 2025 tax policy Monday night, including mill rate factors that aim to keep property tax revenue neutral. However, council spent considerable time debating how fairly those mill rate factors would be distributed among property classes and how to fund potential losses from commercial and industrial property tax appeals. 

The first semi-annual Community Clean-Up Day was held last Saturday, and city officials thanked everyone who participated for helping to make Moose Jaw a cleaner, more attractive city. 

“The weather was beautiful,” Councillor Heather Eby, who is chair of the City of Moose Jaw Clean-Up Committee. “So, first thank-you goes to the weatherman, because it was great. And I really need to thank the Moose Jaw Co-op. 

SaskPower's annual maintenance program will include plans to inspect nearly 120,000 of the over 1.2 million wooden power poles installed in the province between May and October of this year, with a number of them being in the Assiniboia area.

During the process crews will test approximately 10,000 overhead rural transformers and install wildfire protection equipment on 800 power poles in high-risk northern areas.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture President Keith Currie says Canadian agriculture is at a critical juncture, with the recent dramatic rise of trade uncertainty, high costs, and more frequent extreme weather events.

He notes during the recent election, the CFA made the priorities of Canadian farmers very clear: farmers need to see a focus on competitiveness, resiliency, and maintaining rule-based trade.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Jeffery Straker is returning to the Mae Wilson Theatre on Thursday, June 5. 

The show is presented by the Friendly City Optimist Club. Proceeds from the concert are going towards youth projects in the community, a cause that Straker is more than happy to support.