Agriculture

Agri-Business

The area has many businesses directly related to agriculture. The most common agri-businesses located here are:

farm petroleum companies fertilizer companies crop spraying services farm machinery companies machinery repair services a dairy products company auction services a livestock marketing centre veterinary services seed farms bulk fuel distributors automotive and industrial suppliers a grain marketing company computerized pea and lentil sorting
	Sharpe's Soil Services, Moosomin
	Tractors at Miller Farm Equipment.

The wide variety of agri-businesses provides local services for the agricultural producers in the Gateway Area. The urban centers in the area either provide these services or have quick access to needs from larger Saskatchewan and Manitoba urban centers.

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Crops

The Gateway Area is predominantly a mixed farm area of approximately eight hundred and fifty farms. The total area exceeds 623,566 acres for what is classified as rolling plains. Main grains include: wheat, canola, barley, oats, winter wheat and fall rye.

The average farm size is approximately 765 acres in size, with about fifty percent of the farms with cattle. Forty two percent of the farm operators are over the age of fifty years.

For the most part, crops grown in the area are traditional, with spring wheat being the mainstay. Approximately sixty percent of all seeded acres in the area are sown to this crop. Some barley and oats are grown, with small amounts of the barley crop being sold for malting barley. There is a minimal amount of fall rye and winter wheat grown in the R.M. of Moosomin. Oilseed crops such as canola, flax and mustard are grown. Most of the livestock producers have forage crops in production to provide winter feed their stock. A wide range of legume and grass varieties are grown in the area, which is largely self sufficient forage crop production.

Mainline Terminal	Combine Harvesting a Field

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Livestock

The Gateway Area is predominantly a mixed farm area of approximately eight hundred and fifty farms. The total area exceeds 623,566 acres for what is classified as rolling plains. Beef cattle are the primary livestock enterprise, with small amounts of dairy, hogs, horses, poultry, bees, sheep and goats. Cow-calf operations are dominant in the beef area, with a few feedlot operations in existence.

A large number of the farms in the Gateway Area are mixed farms - raising both livestock and grain. Many of these farms have moderate-sized herds of cattle raised to balance the farm income between livestock and grain. Some rather large herds are handled by a few producers with a good number of these operations specializing in a specific breed of cattle. There are several purebred producers in the area who not only raise these breeds, but show them at various livestock shows in Saskatchewan.

Other livestocks, such as hogs, chickens, chinchilla, fallow deer, elk, buffalo and sheep, have very moderate production in the area. In addition, several dairy farms operate in the region.

To see details on either crop or livestock markets in Saskatchewan, please follow this external link.

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Veterinarians

A modern, well-equipped, 3,000 square foot veterinarian clinic exists within Moosomin. South East Veterinary Clinic is a mixed animal clinic which offers medical and surgical veterinary services. Sevices primarily deal with cattle, dogs, cats, and horses. Two vets work within the clinic.

South East Veterinary Clinic Box 1380 Moosomin, SK S0G 3N0 Phone Number: 435-3979 website: [link]

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