Young people across the prairies have been joining agricultural clubs since the early 1900s, and those clubs eventually formed 4-H in 1952. The 4-H name was derived from the pledge’s four H’s: head, heart, hands and health.

Warm, dry weather allowed most west-central Saskatchewan farmers to finish harvesting their fields. They had all but one per cent of their crops combined by Oct. 19, leaving “only small pockets of later-seeded crops in the field…”

Farmers in western Saskatchewan have almost finished harvesting their 2026 crop. They reported good pulse and oilseed yields, with those for cereals “generally aligned with provincial averages”…

KERROBERT – Nine years of 4-H work have paid off for Madison Ley. The Kerrobert student is one of five people across Canada to receive a Maizex 4-H Canada Scholarship. Each scholarship is worth $4,000.

Dry weather continued throughout much of Saskatchewan recently, allowing western farmers to nearly finish harvest. Farmers in both west-central and southwest Saskatchewan had combined 92 per cent of their fields as of Oct. 5…

Kindersley’s annual antique threshing demonstration was once again a huge success thanks to a lot of faithful volunteers pitching in and doing the hard work required to make it happen.

DENZIL – Sunny skies and perfect harvest weather were the perfect backdrop for the antique threshing demonstration at Greg Rissling's farm three miles south of Denzil.

KINDERSLEY – Elementary students learned all about agriculture at the Kindersley Farm Food Event, sponsored by Kindersley Simplot. The Grade 4-6 students at D'Arcy Elementary School participated along with Grade 4 students from…

Harvest has reached 45 per cent completion across west-central Saskatchewan, but humid conditions and significant sprouting in some crops are creating concerns about grain quality.

Saskatchewan farmers facing sharply higher fuel costs this harvest are being encouraged to take another look at AgriStability before the extended Oct. 1 enrolment deadline.

Farmers in the region had combined only 27 per cent of their fields as of Sept. 14, up from 25 per cent a week earlier and well behind the five- and 10-year averages of 74 and 65 per cent for that time, respectively.

Jon Fehr of Herschel returns to the board of SaskOilseeds by acclamation. Kaitlin Lake from Abernethy joins returnees Fehr, Margaret Rigetti of Langbank and Ed Schafer from Makwa on the board…

Saskatchewan's general farm organization is welcoming a proposed federal tax measure that would let producers deduct the full cost of most new machinery and equipment in a single year.

A British Columbia company recently received almost $2 million to keep improving a biodegradable coating for fertilizer. Lucent BioSciences Inc., based in Burnaby, will "continue to develop its sustainable fertilizer technology to protect soil…

Harvest continues to lag well behind normal across west-central Saskatchewan after widespread rainfall brought combines and other field work to a halt.

The catchy slogan "If it isn't a Jersey, it's just a cow" printed on a truck window caught my attention, so I gave the owner, Tracy Howe, a call.

Round bales dot the fields outside Kerrobert, with the town's water tower on the horizon. Every bale in this field is a week of feed for somebody's herd once the snow flies.

A young visitor takes the wheel of a brand new Case IH tractor, already marked sold, during the third annual Meet a Machine event at the Kindersley Museum on Saturday, August 29.

Sheaf by sheaf, volunteers stooked the field adjacent to the Kindersley Museum, standing the cut bundles on end to dry ahead of threshing day.

Harvest advanced in west-central Saskatchewan despite more rain, and farmers in parts of the region are reporting above-average yields.