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Harvest continues in winter cereals, spring cereals, and peas. Yield reports range from 40-110 bu/acre for fall rye and winter wheat, 25-90 bu/acre in spring wheat, 80-180 bu/acre in oat, and 90-115 bu/acre in barley.

China released more details of its anti-dumping probe into Canadian canola, but a farm leader believes it's all politics and wants to see the Chinese and Canada come to a resolution before it escalates.

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 57% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 4, an improvement from the 44% order fulfillment performance seen in week 3.

Canola groups await more information from China after its announcement last week of two investigations into Canadian canola imports and tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, steel, and aluminium.

It took a team effort from farmers and volunteer firefighters from Davidson and Craik to put out a field fire south of Davidson on Friday. The fire departments were called out to the blaze at 2:25 p.m.

This week was a short one due to the Labour Day Long Weekend, but a few ag news worthy items more than made up for it on the latest SaskAgToday.com Roundtable.

Crop yields in Saskatchewan are better than last year, but the decline in prices will mean lower overall returns.

GRAVELBOURG — Teamwork, stewardship, commitment and generosity are just some of the words to describe those who have committed to the Wiwa Growing Project, near Gravelbourg.

Harvest in the province remains ahead of schedule, as progress is at 42 per cent complete, up from 25 per cent last week. It's also ahead of the 5-year average of 34 per cent and the 10-year average of 31 per cent for this time of year.

A report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says the food manufacturing sector in Canada has an opportunity to meet the growing demand for food globally.