Ag News

G3 is almost ready to “Play Melfort.”

The grain company’s newest elevator in Saskatchewan, G3 Melfort, is in the final stages of construction and will open later this spring.

Located southwest of Melfort in the Rural Municipality of Flett’s Springs, G3 Melfort will give area farmers more options for marketing and delivering their grain.

The high-efficiency facility is part of G3’s network across the Prairies, built to keep grain moving to market. A Super-B truck can unload its grain in a matter of minutes, saving farmers time making deliveries.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released the Outlook for Principal Field Crops last Friday.

Below you'll find some of the highlights from that report.

Wheat and Durum projections for 2023-24:

Total wheat supplies for 2023-24 are forecast at 32.8 million tonnes with an expected increase in seeded areas.

Meantime, the total durum wheat supply is projected to be just shy of six million tonnes,  despite a drop in seeded areas but thanks to stronger yield expectations. 

Minister of Agriculture David Marit has made a public apology after nominating a Saskatchewan resident who is facing criminal charges for a public service award.  

Marit nominated Jim Wickett for a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal last year for his work within the agriculture industry.  

The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council is looking for input from the Ag sector for its new Labour Market Information survey.

The survey provides key information on the labour market that will help identify labour shortage issues by better understanding how workforce needs have change.

The new data will help policymakers guide future action on the growing workforce crisis in the ag industry.

Each year a number of temporary foreign workers are brought in to help meet the shortage of agricultural workers.

Farm organizations across the country continue to raise concern about the potential impact the PSAC strike could have on the Ag sector.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture sent a letter to the Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau last week asking the government to take urgent measures to ensure adequate contingencies are in place ( such as an Essential Service Agreement  ) that would ensure any strike action would not unduly impact the movement of agriculture products and that all programs continue to be delivered uninterrupted.

Statistics show that around 40 per cent of Canadian farmland is rented. 

Farm Credit Canada has released a report that could help producers make decisions about buying versus renting land.

FCC's rent-to-price ratio for cultivated land looks at cash rental rates and crosses that information with the Farmland Values Report data. 

More funding is now available for Manitoba food processors under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP).

Non-repayable cost-shared funding is now available for small and large businesses engaged in Manitoba’s value-added food processing sector towards the purchase of processing-related equipment. Eligible amounts available under the Capital Infrastructure and Investments program range from $50,000 up to $2.5 million depending on project size.

Seeds turn into plants, plants make grain and grain in the bin turns into money. The rate you seed your crop establishes your overall plant population in the field. Plant population in the field establishes the tone for your yield in the subsequent harvest. Combined with your seed’s thousand kernel weight (TKW) and expected seedling survival rate, your seeding rate can be determined through a simple equation.

Minister of Agriculture and Wood River MLA, David Marit has made a public apology after nominating a Saskatchewan resident who is facing criminal charges for a public service award.  

Marit nominated Jim Wickett for a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal last year for his work within the agriculture industry.  

You may not realize it, but tsoil is a big deal!

Whether you're a farmer or a backyard gardener soil is key for food production from the crops and vegetables grown to the grass and forage needed for livestock.

Research has shown that Canadian soil has been severely degraded in recent decades, a major aspect of soil degradation is the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil.