Humboldt

Bruce Burnett, Director of Weather and Markets with Glacier Farm Media says that's mainly driven by various factors affecting the broader oilseed market.

Rainfall across the prairies and even provincially has been quite variable this year.

Some areas have seen some pretty wicked storms bringing heavy rain, high winds and hail.

The Canadian Crop Hail Association says storm activity across the prairies in the last two weeks of June resulted in farmers filing well over 2000 hail claims.

According to the report mid-June thunderstorms dropped pea- to toonie-sized hail across Western Canada.  

SaskPower announces a pair of planned power outages in the region. 

Customers in Lanigan will experience an outage from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on July 10, affecting the west sides of Willow Place, Poplar Place, Crocus Place, and the south side of Downing Drive between Hoover Street and Carlton Road. 

Also, a planned power outage will occur on July 10 from 8:99 am to 1:00 pm for customers in the southeast corner of Fishing Lake First Nation.  

Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan is once again looking for nominees for the 2025 Champion Award.

The award recognizes an individual who has taken the initiative to engage or educate consumers about food and farming in our province. Nominees have used their skills to help inform consumers about production practices and have done a measurable job of promoting our industry.

Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan works with a selection panel to recognize a person who strives to engage consumers about agriculture and helps farmers to build public trust in our province and beyond.

The Humboldt and District Museum is inviting families to cool off and step back in time with its upcoming Ice Cream Day, taking place on Saturday, July 12 from 1:30 to 4:00 pm. 

“This is a fun, hands-on event where people of all ages can learn how ice cream was made the old-fashioned way,” said Jennifer Fitzpatrick, director of the Humboldt and District Museum. “We’ll be churning ice cream just like they did in the past, and of course, everyone will get to enjoy a scoop or a sundae.” 

World wheat stocks could climb to 271 million tonnes by the end of 2025-26, up from 264 million tonnes at the end of 2024-25

There will be plenty of wheat in the world in 2025-26, say analysts.

“As we enter mid-year Northern Hemisphere harvest, a larger-than-expected crop is expected to limit the upside in global wheat prices,” Dennis Voznesenski, agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in his recent Agri Commodity Weekly Alert.

Art lovers and curious visitors alike are once again hitting the road for the annual Spirit of Manitou Studio Trail, an event that brings together local artists and artisans across several Saskatchewan communities. Now in its 16th year, the event features 18 participants offering a wide range of creative disciplines, from painting and quilting to woodworking and ceramics. 

Analysis says market correction could see values fall by 50 per cent

 A technical analysis of Saskatchewan farmland values reveals they could be on the verge of tumbling by more than 50 per cent.

Trent Klarenbach, a grain marketing analyst, believes farmland values are reaching a peak and could soon be retracing to the previous high set in 1981.

Willow Ridge School has been gone for years from the edge of the community of Burr, south of Humboldt on Highway 20, but its spirit lives on for many who attended it. Those people with a connection to the school and those families and friends in the region are making an effort to see the institution remembered. 

One of the surest signs that summer has arrived is road construction, and there will be several streets within Humboldt that will be repaired over the next few months. 

Director Public Works and Utilities Peter Bergquist noted the watermain replacements have already begun, as the work has already been completed on Main Street between 1st Avenue and Saskatchewan Avenue.