Livestock

It sounds like a broken record, but feeder cattle prices in Saskatchewan remain at record high levels.

Producers in Saskatchewan are getting ready for seeding, including the Chief Agricultural Editor of SaskAgToday.com Kevin Hursh. The SaskAgToday.

New highs for feeder steer and heifer prices in Saskatchewan were recorded last week, according to the Cattle Market Update for the week ending April 18.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) was somewhat relieved Canada was not included on the list of countries affected by the U.S. reciprocal tariffs last week.

These are good times for bison producers. The Saskatchewan and Manitoba Bison Associations held their No Border Bison Show, Sale and Convention in Yorkton on Friday and Saturday. The Saskatchewan Bison Association president is Keegan Kitzul.

Today, the Water Security Agency (WSA) is updating its spring runoff forecast. Runoff is well underway across most of the southwestern and the southern areas of Saskatchewan.

The Manitoba government will provide farmers and producers with more than $150 million in supports, including $10 million to match federal AgriStability funding, Premier Wab Kinew announced today.

Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were supported again by cattle futures, keeping prices at or near record highs.

Changes were made to the Agri-Stability program prior to the federal election call on Sunday. The SaskAgToday.com Roundtable discusses those changes and reaction to them.

As the federal election campaign is almost through its first week, farm groups are sharpening their pencils to ask political candidates about their stance to certain agriculture issues.