Would you like to be an AG Reporter?

The Crop Report has relied on an impressive number of volunteers for information since 1974, and now is your chance to be part of it.

The Crop Report provides critical information to not only the Ministry of Agriculture, but also to many agricultural companies, organizations and individuals from around the world. The publication has fallen under a few different names and jurisdictions in the past, but the value of the report and its contributors has stayed the same. In fact, the Crop Report remains the Ministry’s most popular publication.

Volunteer farmers, retired farmers and those interested in primary agriculture provide Saskatchewan Agriculture with information during the growing season, including precipitation amounts, seeding progress, crop damage along with the progress, yields, and grades of harvest and haying. Each week from seeding to harvest, over 200 crop reporters use phone, fax or an online survey to submit timely reports. The Ministry then compiles the information into the weekly Crop Report that is in turn used by radio, television, newspapers and other media outlets to discuss cropping conditions.

There are still many R.M.s without crop reporters. To provide the most accurate information across every R.M., we need more crop reporters out there. The Crop Report has a reputation as being one of the best cropping condition reports, and we would like at least one crop reporter in every R.M. to help us continue with that reputation.

If you are interested in becoming a crop reporter for the Ministry of Agriculture, give us a call. A valued crop reporter may be needed in your R.M.!

For more information, contact the Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377 or visit the Ministry of Agriculture website.