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The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for government programs associated with agriculture in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. William Richard Motherwell was the first Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture from 1906-1917. [1]
According to the annual Dairy Farm Accounting Project report, Ontario dairy farmers saw their net farm profit drop from Can$178,601 in 2012 to Can$90,114 in 2016, [95] the lowest point since 2006. [96] The June 2018 report, showed that the net farm income in 2017 was Can$128,230, the first increase since 2012.
There was a need for food production to be maintained, and farmers were exempt from conscription as well. The allies need for wheat production increased, and farm wages doubled. Following the war, the Soldier Settlement Act of 1917 established service men with agricultural land. [13] Saskatchewan's population peaked in 1936 at 931,200 people.
The Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), formerly known as Consumers’ Co-operative Refineries Limited [2] (CCRL), is an oil refinery spread over 544 acres (2.20 km 2) located in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, owned and operated [source needed] by Consumers Co-operative Refinery Limited, an affiliate of Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL).
Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. [3] [4] It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller cooperatives, starting in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society and a fuel production and distribution co-op, [1 ...
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. [ 1 ]
Canadian farmers received a record $36.3 billion in 2001 from livestock, crop sales and program payments. [46] In 2001, the accrued net income of farm operators from farm production amounted to 1,633 million dollars, which amounts to 0.147% of Canada's gross domestic product at market prices which is 1,108,200 million dollars. [45]
In March 2022, the Alberta government announced it would suspend the collection of the fuel tax starting April 1, as a way to fight the rising cost of fuel. [19] In December 2023, the Alberta government announced that with lower oil prices, the fuel tax would be phased back in after Dec. 31, 2023. [20]