The Western Producer

The Western Producer is a weekly magazine located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, focused on delivering news relevant to farmers in western Canada. It holds the title of the largest publication of its kind in the entire country. In 1923, Harris Turner and A.P. "Pat" Waldron founded the Modern Press publishing company in Saskatoon after Turner's earlier publication, Turner's Weekly, which started in 1918, came to an end. The first issue of The Progressive was published on August 24, 1923, and the following year, the name was changed to The Western Producer.

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Bovine Tuberculosis Hits Manitoba Dairy Herd

2 days ago | producer.com | Jeff Melchior

Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating a bovine tuberculosis infection in a dairy cow from a farm in the Pembina Valley region of south-central Manitoba. Due to CFIA privacy laws, that’s about as much as Manitoba Beef Producers president Matthew Atkinson knows about the case.
High Cattle Prices, Cautious Spending by Canadian Farmers

2 days ago | producer.com | Jeff Melchior

Glacier FarmMedia – Canada’s sky-high cattle prices have been the talk of the industry for months. In 2024, farmers could get 13 per cent more for animals they brought to auction compared to the previous year, according to Statistics Canada. Those prices have stayed afloat in 2025, despite worries earlier this year that tariffs would end the party early. It’s a welcome shift for cow-calf producers, whose market has sunk into signficant price valleys several times in the last 25 years.
Global Mandates Fuel Growth

2 days ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — Sustainable aviation fuel is finally taking off, say analysts. “A lot of global consumption is going to be underpinned by the mandates in Europe and the United Kingdom,” said Fabricio Cardoso, principal at Argus Consulting. Both of those regions introduced two per cent SAF mandates in 2025 and will be driving global demand going forward, he said during a recent webinar hosted by the company.
U.S. gene edited pig approval a test for Canada’s rules

3 days ago | producer.com | John Greig

Glacier FarmMedia – The approval in the United States for food use of pigs gene edited to resist porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome will be a good test for Canada’s year-old approval process for gene editing. PRRS is a nasty virus with significant economic implications for farms, but it also has an emotional toll on farmers and farm workers.
Mann brothers settle differences

4 days ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — Two brothers embroiled in an eight-year-long bitter legal battle over control of a generic crop input business have “buried the hatchet.”Jim and Jason Mann have agreed to end litigation against one another and the businesses they run, which are Farmers of North America (FNA) and AgraCity Crop & Nutrition Ltd. “The news of the day is the Mann vs. Mann is ending and Jim and I are burying the hatchet,” said Jason.
North West Terminal continues to sit idle

6 days ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — North West Terminal Ltd. is being tight-lipped about what is happening with the idled grain company. The firm held its annual general meeting on June 18, but chief executive officer Jason Skinner refused to divulge what was discussed at the AGM. “We’ll just go no comment because we’re in negotiations on some things,” he said. NWT announced in September 2024 that it was idling the company’s grain elevator located near Unity, Sask.
Africa's Growing Wheat Demand and Canada's Role

1 week ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — Global wheat trade contracted by 10 per cent in 2024-25, but there is one region of the world where it continued to climb. Imports declined for China, Turkey, Pakistan and Kazakhstan, but expanded by seven per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa, said a new report by the United States Department of Agriculture.
New Saskatchewan Study Aims to Prevent Invasive Weeds

1 week ago | producer.com | Karen Briere

REGINA — Shaun Sharpe is on a mission to keep palmer amaranth and waterhemp out of Saskatchewan. The two weeds have been making their way north and west from the United States and have been found in Manitoba. They resemble other pigweeds but are dangerous because of herbicide resistance. In some areas of the United States, there is six- and 10-way stacking of resistance. As well, these weeds are able to metabolize herbicides they might not have been exposed to previously.
Bison sector deepens Canadian Indigenous ties

1 week ago | producer.com | Alexis Kienlen

Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Bison Association and the National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food already have a history of collaboration, but the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding made the relationship more official. “When you’re doing anything in Indigenous agriculture, buffalo is a huge piece of that,” said Kallie Wood, president and chief executive officer of the Regina-based NCIAF.
New Crop Insurance Policy Enables Easier Fababean Startup

1 week ago | producer.com | Jeff Melchior

For Alberta producers thinking about adding fababeans to their rotation, 2026 may be the year to start doing so, at least from a crop insurance perspective. The Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) has updated its normals — yield expectations in a given risk area that help determine insurance coverage — to reflect provincial fababean production reported from 2000-24. As a result, producers who insure fababeans for less than five years will see an increase in their coverage.