Terry Lerat at Indigenous Producers Panel, AIM 2024. Photo: Ed White

First Nations should demand at-market lease rates: Lerat

First Nations need to stop leasing out their land to non-Indigenous farmers for below-market prices, says farmer and band councillor Terry Lerat of Cowessess First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan. Instead, bands should be getting every penny they can for the farmland they own and using that money to get themselves back into farming.



Katlin Lang is co-founder of FarmSimple Solutions, a company that provides a water trough sensor for remote watering system. He’s pictured here at last year’s Ag in Motion.
 Photo: John Greig

Sask. government researching water quality with ag tech

At the Livestock AgTech Happy Hour at Ag in Motion on July 16, 2024, Chelsey Siemens, a livestock and feed extension specialist with the province, said they are doing a research project through ADOPT (Agriculture Demonstration of Practices and Technology), looking at how FarmSimple can be used to monitor sulfate levels over the summer.









Ag in Motion opens tenth show

Ag in Motion opens tenth show

This year features 607 exhibitors, the highest number ever, and an expected attendance of 30,000 people — more than double the attendance of the first show in 2014, which had 12,000 people through the gates.