crops

A week of warmer weather and reduced rainfall has accelerated crop advancement and enabled haying operations to progress throughout the province. With the forecasted heat over the next week many regions are hoping for moisture to help support crop development, reduce crop stress and sustain topsoil moisture conditions. Many areas across the province received reduced […]

A farmer just outside of Regina says he had some moisture in the ground but not enough to say it was adequate. Levi Wood with Westwood Agri Services, southwest of Regina, described the weather conditions he’s had so far during the Provincial Crop Report announcement Thursday morning.  “We’ve been kind of drought-adjacent the last couple […]

An Esterhazy area farmer says when you plant 52-thousand acres, you have a lot riding on your crops. Hrushka Farms near Esterhazy is certainly one of the largest grain farms in Saskatchewan. Rain has been hit-and-miss this summer and Kevin Hrushka says that has impacted crop development, saying the north end of his land looks […]

Saskatchewan growers went against the grain when they planted this year’s canola crops. Agricultural Consultant Kevin Hursh says according to the Statistics Canada Seeded Acreage Report released last week canola acreage came in higher than many analysts expected. Saskatchewan is where the difference lies. “What I found really interesting about the canola acreage is that […]

2023 is shaping up to be a dry year and consequently won’t be a bin buster. That’s according to agricultural consultant Kevin Hursh, who says where he farms in the Cabri area of southwest Saskatchewan it’s dry. “Things are going backwards quickly in my part of the world,” Hursh said. “Increasingly there’s a lot of […]