Agriculture in Saskatchewan

Agriculture in Saskatchewan is the production of various food, feed, or fiber commodities to fulfill domestic and international human and animal sustenance needs. The newest agricultural economy to be developed in renewable biofuel production or agricultural biomass which is marketed as ethanol or biodiesel. [Citation
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accessdate =2007-05-20 Plant cultivation and livestock production have abandoned subsistence agricultural practices in favour of intensive technological farming resulting in cash crops which contribute to the economy of Saskatchewan. The particular commodity produced is dependent upon its particular biogeography or ecozone of Geography of Saskatchewan. Agricultural techniques and activities have evolved over the years. The first nation nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the early immigrant ox and plow farmer proving up on his quarter section of land in no way resemble the present farmer operating huge amounts of land or livestock with their attendant technological mechanization. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-04-07] Challenges to the future of Saskatchewan agriculture include developing sustainable water management strategies for a cyclical drought prone climate in south western Saskatchewan, updating dryland farming techniques, stabilizing organic definitions or protocols and the decision to grow, or not to grow genetically modified foods. Domestically and internationally, some commodities have faced increased scrutiny from disease and the ensuing marketing issues.

Canada's production of wheat, oats, flaxseed, and barley come mainly from Saskatchewan and the prairie provinces. Meat processing is the largest industry here, followed by dairy production, breweries, and the subisidiary industry of agricultural implements. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-04-10] Saskatchewan still has cattle ranching along the southwestern corner of the province, However, grain farming and growing crops such as wheat, oats, flax, alfalfa, and rapeseed (especially canola) dominate the parkland area. Mixed grain farming, dairy farms, mixed livestock and grazing lands dot the central lowlands region of this prairie province. [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-04-10] As of 1996, March 24 to30, has been proclaimed "Agriculture Week in Saskatchewan". [Citation
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History of agriculture in Saskatchewan

First Nations inhabitants of Saskatchewan are the first to process plants and animals to produce food. Agriculture in Saskatchewan began with First Nations tribal practices where the gentlemen follow livestock movement, a form of transhumance and the ladies and young remain at home carrying out a hunting and gathering lifesyle. There was the hunter-gather lifestyle of the mainland which combined the use of buffalo jump hunting methods, fishing, berry, and herb gathering. Indigenous agricultural mainstays varied depending on the geographical area. The animal hunted also varied depending on geographical area.

With the arrival of the European fur trader , inland first nations developed animal trapping and many Woodland Cree relied on their skills as the area fur trapper. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/ethnic/first-nations-saskatchewan.html Saskatchewan Gen Web Project - SGW - First Nations Saskatchewan Genealogy Roots] URL accessed November 28, 2006] Along the U.S.A. Canada border or medicine line, the land was more suitable for cattle grazing. As the buffalo population decreased, ranching ventures increased; as well the practice of extensive farming began. Rural sociology thus developed with a Saskatchewan identity, and geography.

The advent of Canada's confederation, presented the nation with the task of building a transcontinental railway. Railways were hesitant to build across the prairies, so an intensive immigration policy was implemented to encourage agricultural settlement. Agricultural science began developing many new styles of farming and strains of wheat and crops so that homesteading could become a successful venture. Upon arrival of immigrants to Saskatchewan at the end of the 1800s and beginning of 1900s, plant cultivation combined with pastoralism or ranching began. One major difference in the perspective of agriculture between the nineteenth and twentieth century is that the hunter gatherer lifestyle was more of a subsistence lifestyle, and early homesteaders grew mainly subsistence crops which would feed their own family and livestock. Farming methods were developed at places such as Indian Head Experimental Farm [cite web
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accessdate =2007-04-11 [] URL accessed November 28, 2006] With population growth, advances in agricultural science, permanent settled lifestyle farmers started growing cash crops which would provide money giving an economic base for the family. The Dominion Land Act of 1872 offered pioneers an opportunity to prove up a quarter section of land (one hundred and sixty acres (a quarter square mile, 65 hectares).) in Western Canada for a $10.00 filing fee. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-04-07] The industrial revolution modernized the farming industry as mechanized vehicles replaced the oxen ploughed land or the horse drawn cart. Farms became much larger, and mechanized evolving towards industrial agriculture. See also History of Agriculture.

Farm equipment

The Oliver plow was in use by 1896 which could cut through the prairie sod. Binders which could cut and tie grain for the harvest season and grain elevators for storage were introduced in the late 1800s as well. [http://www.vaes.vt.edu/steeles/mccormick/harvest.html Grain Harvesting] URL accessed November 30, 2006] Plows {plough), tractors, spreaders, combines to name a few are some mechanized implements for the grain crop or horticultural farmer which are labour saving devices. Many Canadian museums such as Saskatchewan Western Development Museum will showcase the evolution and variety of farm machinery.

Cereal Crops

Wheat

In 1925, Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada threshing in excess of 240,000,000 bushels (6,500,000 t) of wheat. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmaps/1926/v.html 1926 Highway
] URL accessed November 29, 2006] North America has many times led other international continents as the main producer of wheat in total world production. Rapeseed, alfalfa, barley, canola, flax, rye, and oats are other popularly grown grain crops.

Wheat is a staple crop from Canada. To help homesteaders attain an abundance harvest in a foreshortened growing season, varieties of wheat were developed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Red Fife wheat was the first strain; it was a wheat which could be seeded in the fall and sprout in the early spring. Red Fife ripened a week and half sooner and was a harder wheat than other spring wheats. Dr. C. Saunders, experimented further with Red Fife, and developed Marquis Wheat, resistant to rust, and came to maturity within 100 days. Some other types of wheat grown are durum, spelt, and winter wheat. [cite web
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Barley

Barley is a major crop of Saskatchewan supplying the malt industry with their primary ingredient. [Citation
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Oats

Oats show Agricultural productivity in Saskatchewan for livestock feed as well as for the cereal industry. [Citation
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Rye

Saskatchewan produces the most rye in Canada, but the number of rye producers in the province are small compared to other agricultural concerns. Rye can be a spring and fall crop, because of its fast growing nature. [Citation
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Triticale

Triticale is a man made crop for growing in tolerate drought prone areas. It was produced by breeding together both wheat and rye and is used for animal feed. [Citation
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Pulse Crops

With intervention of man made irrigation, the soil is suitable for harvesting beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas. For instance near Lake Diefenbaker dry beans are produced. [Citation
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Oilseeds

Canola, flax, sunflower, and yellow, brown, and oriental mustard . Since the 1970s research has developed oilseed crops and the industry has flourished in the province. Sunflower plants are harvested for the sunflower seed, sunflower oil and birdseed industries. [Citation
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Horticulture

Horticulture which includes garden crops, and fruits became easier to grow with the development of plant hardiness zones. [http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/climate/hardiness/intro.html National Land and Water Information Service Plant Hardiness Zones in Canada] URL accessed November 28, 2006] In Saskatchewan, the main horticultural products would be potatoes (for seed and commercial sale), small fruits, vegetables, fresh and dried flowersgreenhouse prodction, sod operations, and nursery operations. [Citation
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Livestock

In Saskatchewan, the main livestock industries would be (in this order) beef, pork, bison, sheep and goats. Some newer industries have experimented with the agricultural productivity of llama, apalca, ostrich, rhea, emu, wild boar, deer, and elk. 115,000 cattle roamed the southern prairies by 1900.
Livestock can include the raising of cows, also commonly called cattle. Recently domestication of the buffalo [cite web
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Poultry and eggs

Fowl, poultry, eggs, chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys are part of a supply-managed system, ensuring production matches demand. [ [http://www.cfa-fca.ca/pages/index.php?main_id=25 CFA - Canadian Federation of Agriculture - Commodities] URL accessed April 6, 2007] [http://www.agr.gc.ca/poultry/glpl_e.htm Poultry Marketplace - Poultry at a glance] URL referenced November 28, 2006]

Dairy

Dairy producing is also termed dairy farming. This includes the production of cheeses, milk, yogourts, sour cream, buttermilk, butter and other milk products.

Fisheries

The fishery industry is an income source on inland lands and rivers. Near Gravelbourg is a shrimp processing plant on Canada's second largest saline lake. [Highway 58

Organic farming

In recent years more and more farmers are producing alternative crops and ways of being economically viable, and are turning to organic farming.Therefore research focuses on pesticide free production, insect management, fertility, weed management, disease management, and soil conservation. [Citation
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Other

Many crop growers will supplement their income with beeswax and honey and learn beekeeping. New markets are being looked into such as canary seed. Very few farmers engage in cuniculture, or rabbit farming to any significant extent, although they are a new grocery alternative to the red meat burger.

Production

Farming activities were very labour intensive before the industrial revolution and the advent of tractors, combines, balers, etc. In the late 1800s to mid 1900s, a great percentage of the Saskatchewan labour force was engaged in high labour, smaller farming practices. After mechanization, scientific advancement, improved marketing practices so farms became more efficient, larger and less labour intensive. The labour population was freed up and went to industry, government, transportation, trade and finance. [http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/ind01/l2_920.htm Tables by subject Agriculture Statistics Canada] URL referenced November 28, 2006] [cite book | title=The Canada Year Book 1951 The Official Statistical Annual of the Resources, History, Institutions, and Social and Economic Conditions of Canada | publisher=King's Printer and Controller of Stationery | year=1951 |editor=Cloutier, Edmond | ISBN=0-7715-8268-4 ] All agricultural producers must maintain food safety and comply with regulations, inspections and government monitoring.

Any type of plant production involves consideration of;
*Seeding
*Fertilizer/Nutrients
*Insects
*Weeds
*Disease
*Irrigation
*Harvesting
*Storage Livestock producer concerns would be:
* Animal Health
* Feeds/Nutrition
* Predators/Pests
* Handling [Citation
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Trade

"see also Agriculture in Canada - Trade

askatchewan Wheat Pool

The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool has a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which has made it the largest agricultural grain handling operation in the province of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool]

Future challenges

Drought

The depression and drought of the Dirty Thirties was devastating. Prior to this decade, droughts were cyclical in nature, but did not last over many years as in the 1930s. This drought resulted in a mass exodus of population from the prairies, as well as new agricultural practices such as soil conservation, and crop rotation for a few.cite web
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oil conservation and reclamation

Soil conservation practices such as crop rotation, cover crops, and windbreaks to name a few were massively developed and set in forth upon recovering from the drought experiences of the dirty thirties. Literally layers and layers of topsoil would be blowing away during this time.

Disease and pests

Wheat diseases such as wheat bunt and stinking smut can be successfully treated with a fungicide. Disease of plants and animals can break an agricultural producer. Tuberculosis in animals was an early threat, and cattle needed to be tested, and areas accredited in 1956. The newer disease such as chronic wasting disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affects both elk and deer. Elk and deer raising is a pioneer field of domestication, has had a setback with this disease. [http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.main Chronic Wasting Disease] URL accessed November 28, 2006] Mad cow disease in cattlecite web| url=http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/bseesbindexe.shtml| title= Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE in North America |author = Canadian Food Inspection Agency| accessdate=2006-11-28] and scrapie of sheep [http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/man/scrtre/scrtre-1-2e.shtml Canadian Food Inspection Agency Animal Health Scrapies Manual of Procedures Module 1 and 2] URL accessed November 28, 2006] are monitored by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The poultry sector was plagued by Pullorum disease, and by controlling the flock via poultry husbandry, this disease has been brought under control.

Genetically modified crops/animals

Plants whose traits can be modified to survive a disease or insect have made inroads into Saskatchewan agricultural practices. Cereal rusts which can destroy the majority of areas seeded to wheat, was controlled in 1938 by breeding strains which were rust-resistant. This strain was successful until around 1950, when again a new strain of rust broke out, and again a new strain called Selkirk was developed which was rust resistant. [http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=21-004-X20021126389 Genetically modified crops: steady growth in Ontario and Quebec] URL accessed November 28, 2006] Biotechnology is the center of new research and regulations affecting agriculture this century. [http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/sci/biotech/gen/terexpe.shtml Canadian Food Inspection Agency Science Branch Office of Biotechnology] URL accessed November 28, 2006] [cite web
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Notable People

Notable people who have contributed highly to the development the agriucultural industry in Saskatchewan have beed inducted into the agricultural hall of fame.

*Lawrence Kirk, B.A., B.Sc., M.Sc. Agriculture Ph.D is a famous agronomist who taught in Saskatchewan universities and helped to control the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

*Keith Downey, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.A.I.C., F.R.S.C. is the originators of canola and is nicknamed the "Father of Canola" .

*Seager Wheeler nicknamed "Wheat King of the prairies" or "The Wheat Wizard of Rosthern"cite web
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*Sir Charles E. Saunders Ph.D, BA, FRSC was a Canadian agronomist. He was the inventor of Marquis Wheat.

*John Macoun Canadian naturalist.

ymbols of Saskatchewan

The Coat of arms of Saskatchewan features three gold sheaves of wheat, or garbs, represent the province's agriculture; the heraldic sheaf of wheat has become a generalized symbol of the province. [Coat of arms of Saskatchewan] The gold lower half of the Flag of Saskatchewan symbolises the southern, prairie wheat-fields. The provincial symbol is a sheaf of wheat and is generally used to identify government programs and organizations.

ee also

*Crow Rate
*Regina Exhibition Stadium
*List of agricultural universities and colleges
*Motherwell Homestead
*Saskatchewan Western Development Museum
*Saskatchewan Forestry Centre
*Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
*Agriculture in Canada
*Canadian Prairies
*Guardian Biotechnologies
*Maple Leaf Foods
*Palliser's Triangle
*Great Plains
*Aspen parkland
*Semi-arid
*Dominion Land Survey
*List of schools of veterinary medicine
*Geography of Saskatchewan
*Saskatchewan Agriculture

References

External links

* [http://www.agr.gov.sk.ca/ Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food]
* [http://www.ag.usask.ca/ College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan]
* [http://www.statcan.ca/english/agcensus2001/first/regions/farmsk.htm 2001 Census of Agriculture - Agriculture in Saskatchewan]
* [http://www.saskorganic.com/oapf/farm.html Organic Farming in Saskatchewan • Organic Agriculture Protection ...]
* [http://www.virtualsk.com/current_issue/living_off_the_land.html Virtual Saskatchewan - Living off the Land]
* [http://www.apas.ca/index.php agriculture producers association of saskatchewan]
* [http://www.sahf.ca/ Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=c2b99c52-26e5-4097-9185-3ac64e98c5ae AGRICULTURE WEEK IN SASKATCHEWAN PROCLAIMED - Government of ...]
* [http://www.sahf.ca/capsule.php Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame SASKATCHEWAN AGRICULTURE A Capsule History]
* [http://www.agrivision.ca/pdf/other/historydoc.pdf “The New Pioneers” Saskatchewan: The History of Agriculture]