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With the hot weather last week, it was an excellent time to do some haying operations on area farms, like this individual was doing Saturday near Gorlitz.

In this space it has often been suggested one of the biggest challenges for farmers in terms of making a profit is maneuvering through the varied roadblocks created in the marketplace by government.

It opened later than they wanted, but the new Parrish and Heimbecker fertilizer blending facility just outside of Yorkton, north on Highway 9.

In North America a lot of people are wanting agriculture to take a step back to its past.

Kevin Elmy is burying his underwear in the fields of his Saltcoats area seed farm. Elmy’s efforts are part of an initiative being termed ‘Soil Your Undies’ Soil Conservation Council of Canada.

You don’t have to have been involved in agriculture all that long to recall that the biggest detriment to Canadian farm exports used to be subsidies paid by the United States and the European Union.

Honey is a very natural product, but there is still an extensive process to get it from the beehive to the consumer.

Continuing last week’s thoughts on the changing way we approach our food, the vision of what is best for us is changing, too.

River Plains Growing Project marks ten years

Informative tours, demonstrations make up yearly local event