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CCGA Opens Early Application Window for 2024 Cash Advances
Starting today, farmers from across Western Canada can apply for a 2024 spring cash advance through Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). "We're launching our early application window for the 20...
Feb 12, 2024
Grain Service by Canadian Railways in Week 27 Declines: Ag Transport Coalition
CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 68% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 27, a decline from the 77% order fulfillment performance seen in week 26. The decline in system performance reflects a det...
Feb 12, 2024
Teachers and Government Sit Down for Talks to end labour dispute
Negotiators for the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation will be sitting down with the provincial government's bargaining team for the first time in weeks. Teachers have staged rotating strikes, in their ...
Feb 12, 2024
Weather stats show January was one for the record books
January was a roller-coaster of a month - from warm & dry to very cold, then warm again. Environment Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang says the beginning of the month was like December, warm and dry...
Feb 09, 2024
Education Minister Lays out Case in Labour dispute with Teachers
The government and teachers will be heading back to the bargaining table on Monday in Saskatoon. This came after the government gave new instructions to its negotiating team, but the Sask Party Govern...
Feb 09, 2024
Canada's unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in January, first decline since December 2022
Canada's unemployment rate fell to 5.7 per cent last month, marking the first decline since December 2022, Statistics Canada reported on Friday. The agency's labour force survey said the economy added...
Feb 09, 2024
Saskatchewan Sees Record Agricultural Exports for Fourth Consecutive Year
Saskatchewan's agriculture industry has posted a fourth consecutive year of record agri-food exports, with shipments totaling $20.2 billion for 2023. The leading agri-food export commodities in 2023 w...
Feb 08, 2024
Latest analysis has lentils showing the most return on investment
Lentils have the potential to be a top money earner for the upcoming growing season while flax, soybeans and fababeans are at the bottom of the list. The ranking comes from a recent profitability anal...
Feb 07, 2024
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Yorkton Mayor "ecstatic" with LDC investment of new pea processing plant
Wednesday's announcement from Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) investing in a new pea protein isolate production plant in Yorkton has yielded positive reaction from the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers and the M...
Feb 07, 2024
LDC Announces Construction of Pea Protein Production Plant in Yorkton
Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) announced today the construction of a pea protein isolate production plant dedicated to its Plant Proteins business, at the site of its existing industrial complex in Yorkt...
Feb 07, 2024
