Usage of feed grain and forage listing service picking up

Source: Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food

Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food’s Feed Grain and Forage Listing Service remains available to match producers with feed for sale with those with a feed shortage.

The service is available to farmers throughout Saskatchewan, as well as those from neighbouring provinces and states like Alberta, Manitoba, Montana and North Dakota – all at no charge to users.

The tool also provides postings for popular custom farm services such as grazing and feeding, cutting and baling, seeding, spraying, trucking, combining, grain drying and manure hauling.

“The season usually starts with the standing crops that are for sale,” said Andre Bonneau, a Forage Conversion Specialist with SAF. “I’m getting the sense this year that there is more interest in putting up custom grazing listings.”

The listing contains interactive maps that enable users to see, by rural municipality, where there are postings for available baled forage, standing forage, feed grain and various custom services. A complete listing for the entire province is also accessible.

“The nice thing about it is you can look at the whole province and compare prices,” Bonneau stated. “You can also get very close to home, to the point where you may very well know the person who is selling to you through the site.”

To advertise a product or service, or to browse the listings, internet users can visit the SAF website at www.agr.gov.sk.ca and click on “Feed Grain and Forage Listing Service” under the “Programs and Services” link.

Farmers who do not have internet access can call SAF’s Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377 to have items posted for sale on their behalf or to have a copy of the listing sent to them.

For more information, contact:
Andre Bonneau, Forage Conversion Specialist
Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food
Phone: (306) 694-3721