• in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada?
• Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?

Facts on topics related to Agriculture in Saskatchewan

Flora of Saskatchewan

• the indigenous flora of Saskatchewan (example pictured) is used for jellies, jams, pies, herbal teas, medicinal decoctions and technological products?

Agriculture

• 19th century Polish noble and farmer Stanisław Chełchowski (pictured) published academic works ranging from ethnography through agriculture to mycology?
• Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event?
• Bob Odom, Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
• ice-minus bacteria, a variant of genus Pseudomonas, are useful in agriculture, because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
• Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan, famous for the quality of its grape harvest, and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana?
• the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
• the masseira is a form of agriculture in sand dunes practiced solely in Northern Portugal?
• the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983?
• two species of bird's nest fungi, Cyathus olla and Cyathus stercoreus, have been researched for use in agriculture?

Saskatchewan

• Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
• Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
• Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
• Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
• Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League?
• Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
• a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?

Domestic sheep

• besides causing anemia and reducing weight gains in sheep, the blood-feeding fly Melophagus ovinus can also stain the wool and devalue it?
• in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £8.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge?
• the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria?

Livestock

• Alonzo C. Mather was awarded a medal in 1883 by the American Humane Society for the humane treatment of the livestock transported in railroad stock cars he designed?
• dew ponds are man-made ponds placed on the top of hills, built for watering livestock?
  
• a forage harvester is used to create silage feed for livestock?
• all members of the genus Zigadenus are unpalatable to livestock because of the presence of alkaloids?
• during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India, approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
• the charity Heifer International allows you to give a family a gift of livestock in the spirit of sustainability?