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Food for Flea Beatles

  This is now the best time to start watching for flea beetle action in your young canola crops, as the tender cotyledons as like candy to those pesky little black insects. Flea beetle damage looks like little chew marks on the leaves; they will start to feed on...

Short term pain, long term gain?

Cattle industry experts are in general agreement that the long-term outlook is bright for the beef industry. However, the short term outlook is cloudy. At the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association annual meeting in Moose Jaw, a substantial list of long term positives...

Worry growing over feed supplies

The annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association is underway in Moose Jaw. You wouldn’t know it by conditions around Moose Jaw, but moisture has become a big concern for the cattle industry. Here in the Moose Jaw region, like everywhere else, hay and...

Compelled to store durum

There’s a longstanding debate over whether or not the Canadian Wheat Board extracts a premium for the wheat, durum and barley it sells into world markets. Beyond the price question, another issue that irks a lot of growers is when the CWB doesn’t take all the...