One Stop Shop For Ag Election Issues
A farm group is comparing party policies heading into next week’s Provincial election. Western Canadian Wheat Growers Executive Director, Dave...
Prairie farming: ‘a lifetime apprenticeship’ (featuring Chair Jim Wickett)
Grain farmer Jim Wickett from Rosetown, Sask., will plant about 3,100 acres this year, including spring wheat, red lentils, flax...
Watch VP Alberta Stephen Vandervalk speak at the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food regarding canola
No-surprise budget pleases Sask. farm groups
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association director Daryl Fransoo said the government helps farmers with more than money. “As the Western...
Wheat Growers call on Ottawa to open talks with China over grain shipments
Jim Wickett says the dispute is clearly political, not a quality issue.
Sask. farmers concerned about early melt, lack of soil moisture
Some areas got less than half the normal precipitation this winter.
“Huge uncertainty” for Canadian farmers: China stops buying canola [and wheat] just weeks before planting begins
There is a significant concern in all of agriculture because China is a big market but also because the list...
A first hand look at trade with Peru
To be part of the program participants had to find industry sponsors which they then had a mandate to promote in...
Don’t Forget Trade, Please
“As Washington whispers about collusion and Ottawa sinks into a scandal that will dominate the media for months pre-election, the economies of...
Proposed Seed Variety Use Agreement: Implementing Royalties for Farm-saved Seed
“Farmers aren’t against paying for a variety of research,” says Wheat Growers’ Chair Jim Wickett. “As long as we get a...