Saskatchewan farm news with market-weather muscle.
SaskAgToday on 620CKRM is a practical agriculture news program for Saskatchewan producers and ag-sector watchers. Ryan Young moves through weather, markets, farm policy, livestock issues, land values, input costs, and interviews with provincial voices close to the field.
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SaskAgToday on 620CKRM is a Saskatchewan-focused agriculture news program with the cadence of a local farm broadcast. It is built for utility. Ryan Young opens episodes with immediate conditions, sponsor context, and a clear map of the day’s farm stories, then moves through interviews, weather, policy, markets, and resource updates. The show pays close attention to what producers are dealing with now. Snowfall is not treated as scenery; it becomes a question of spring moisture, pasture conditions, road safety, and seeding-season timing. Land policy gets similar treatment. Recent coverage follows the provincial government’s comprehensive review of the Farmland Security Act, with attention to foreign farmland ownership and responses from government, advisory, board, opposition, and agriculture-media voices. The program also spends time on strychnine use, including expanded eligible areas and concerns from Saskatchewan SPCA. It is not only provincial. Episodes connect Saskatchewan farming to fertilizer supply pressure, the Strait of Hormuz, Middle East conflict, Indo-Pacific organic export opportunities, U.S. crop progress, Canadian wheat exports, and North American equipment sales. That wider lens matters because the show treats agriculture as a chain of connected pressures rather than a set of isolated headlines. Input costs, land values, trade rules, fuel policy, and food prices all show up as part of the same working economy. The format is familiar and steady. Farm Precision Weather with Phil Spivak appears in its usual spot, offering forecasts and temperature detail with producer relevance. Resource Report segments add market levels for the TSX, Dow, oil, the Canadian dollar, employment, transport, and related economic signals. Interviews and clips bring in figures such as David Merritt, Ken MacDonald, Kim McLean, Trent Witherspoon, Kevin Hirsch, Brennan Grant, Andrea Brockelbank, and others when their subjects fit the day’s agenda. The voice is conversational but still news-driven. A slippery commute can sit beside a farmland review, then the show pivots back to policy or prices. That mix gives SaskAgToday a distinctly regional feel: practical, current, and tied to the decisions Saskatchewan producers make in real time. It suits listeners who want farm news that stays close to the province while keeping one eye on global markets and supply chains.
Made for: For Saskatchewan producers, ranchers, ag retailers, rural business owners, and farm-policy followers who want local conditions tied to broader market forces.
What sets it apart: The show combines local farm-radio immediacy with policy interviews, market checks, and recurring weather detail, keeping Saskatchewan agriculture at the center while tracking national and global pressures.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sask Ag Today connects Saskatchewan farm decisions to commodity markets, input costs, trade policy and the wider forces shaping agricultural margins.
Sask Ag Today turns the farm economy into a working set of decisions. Ryan Young moves between interviews, reported updates, weather and market numbers, connecting Saskatchewan agriculture to land costs, equipment demand, cattle prices, fertilizer supply and trade policy.
Strychnine rules, cattle prices and snow totals meet before your next farm decision does.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Southern Saskatchewan snowfall reports share the program with fertilizer concerns and weaker farm equipment sales.
Ryan Young starts with farmers reporting on yesterday's snowfall across southwestern, south-central and southeastern Saskatchewan. Their check-ins give the weather story a local feel before the program moves to fertilizer concerns tied to the conflict in the Middle East.
A Saskatchewan farm-news update on expanded emergency strychnine use, followed by weather and market figures.
Ryan Young opens Friday's SaskAg Today with the provincial government's time-limited emergency expansion of areas permitted to use 2% liquid strychnine. Kevin Hirsch reacts to the change, and the announcement stays in focus before Phil Spivak's farm weather forecast.
Saskatchewan farmland leads a brisk look at organic exports, reported livestock losses and market pressures.
Ryan Young opens with tightening returns in grain before introducing Kevin Hirsch's conversation with Tim Hammond and Bobby Montrail of Hammond Realty about Saskatchewan farmland.
Ryan Young covers cattle prices, wheat and fertilizer supply in a Saskatchewan farm-news roundup.
Ryan Young's SaskAg Today moves from cattle prices to wheat and fertilizer supply. Young introduces Canfax executive director Brennan Grant for a conversation about cattle-price trends and the factors behind them.
Saskatchewan farm news on strychnine use, sulfur prices and grain deliveries.
Sask Ag Today opens with a temporary allowance for strychnine use. Ryan Young covers the federal decision and the Canadian Cattle Association's position on proposed traceability changes, then speaks with an Alberta sulfur supplier about how conflict in the Middle East is…
Farm business talk with coffee-shop honesty.
["Sask Ag Today on 620 CKRM for Friday, April 17, 2026, centered on a provincewide snowfall, fertilizer supply pressure, Hall of Fame inductees, and market moves.", "Ryan Young hosted, while Michael Bork of Fertilizer Canada, Jessica Rideau of the Canadian Cattle Association, Patricia Lewis of InfraReady Products, Stephen McKenzie, Kevin Hirsch, Jeff Yorga, Jake Legui, Doug Faulconer, and Phil Spivak supplied the farm, policy, and weather details.", "The episode asks what April snow, fertilizer volatility, and Hall of Fame history mean for prairie producers heading into seeding.", "Environment Canada reported 9 centimeters in Regina, 15 in Kindersley, and 6 in Saskatoon, while social reports put Regina at 19 and Etonia at 48."]
Ryan Young discusses the snow in Regina and its impact on farmers and city dwellers, and previews segments on the federal fuel tax brake with farm groups.
SaskAg Today discusses the Saskatchewan government's comprehensive review of the Farmland Security Act and foreign farmland ownership, featuring interviews with officials and opposition response.
Ryan Young previews a SaskAg Today episode covering strychnine debate, beef code of practice update, and seeding safety tips.
Ryan Young previews a farm broadcast covering a round table discussion and Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame inductees.
Sask Ag Today, hosted by Ryan Young on 620 CKRM for Friday April 10, 2026, leads with the Saskatchewan government's expansion of emergency strychnine authorization from 7 to 15 crop districts covering 208 rural municipalities, following a request to Health Canada's Pesticide Regulatory Directorate.
Sask Ag Today, hosted by Ryan Young on 620 CKRM for Thursday April 9, 2026, leads with a land market analysis from Hammond Realty showing a price bifurcation — quality cropland still attracting competing offers while average land stagnates — plus a notable uptick in producers seeking to sell and leaseback their land, a pattern not seen since the early 2000s.
This episode of SaskAg Today with host Ryan Young on 620 CKRM covers cattle prices with Canfax executive director Brennan Grant, who notes 550-pound steer calves at around $7 a pound and 850-pound cattle down from a February peak of $5 to $4.80 a pound.
["Sask Ag Today on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 leads with Ottawa temporarily restoring strychnine in Saskatchewan and Alberta, then moves through sulfur prices, food misinformation, and market data.", "Ryan Young frames the program around Andrea Brocklebank's CCA response to CFIA traceability changes, Mario Gaudet's sulfur market update, and McGill-linked food misinformation research from Veronica Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis.", "Kevin Hirsch's interview with BusySol's Mario Gaudet says sulfur climbed from about US$70 to about US$580 per ton in two years, with Middle East supply strain and industrial demand both pushing prices.", "The same episode adds Donald Trump's White House remarks to farmers, Doug Falconer's grain and policy roundup, Phil Spivak's weather forecast, and livestock reports from Weyburn and Brandon-Moose Jaw."]
Ryan Young covers the SARM convention, spring runoff report, and Canada's Farm Show preview.
Ryan Young previews upcoming agricultural events including the SARM convention, Canada's Farm Show, and a potash facility acquisition.
Ryan Young previews the March 6, 2026 SaskAgToday episode covering the Statistics Canada Crop Acreage Estimate Report, SARM and Highways Minister on road funding, and Farm Precision Weather.
Ryan Young previews the 2026 Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Program details announced in Melville, with interviews and analysis.
Ryan Young hosts a farm news podcast from home due to a snowstorm, covering weather warnings, Bayer's Roundup settlement, and an upcoming Saskatoon conference.