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The Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association(SSCA) is launching its on-line journal at this year's Western Canadian Farm Progress Show (website). KIS introduced the journal in last week's blog entry and this week we are posting two more article summaries from the upcoming journal. If you have not already done so, please read last week's entry by Juanita Polegi, SSCA Project Manager, to learn more about the Ag Tech Journal.

The goal of the KIS project at the U of S is to create a discussion of the issues facing agriculture and rural communities so that individuals and the industry generally are better able to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Through the Illative Blog we are pleased to showcase an initiative by one of our partner organizations, the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, that is designed to do just that. Over the next several weeks, we will be posting summaries of articles that will appear in the inaugural edition of Prairie Soils and Crops: Scientific Perspectives for Innovative Management that will be officially launched in late June. Readers of the Illative Blog are getting a sneak preview of what is to come in this exciting new online journal.

To read an introduction from the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association and an article summary from the upcoming journal, click here.

The Western Canadian Farm Progress Show in Regina will be the site of the launch of Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association's new web-based Ag Tech Journal. The new journal will be unveiled June 18.

If you are a grain farmer it is good to see the high crop prices again and a return to levels of profitability not seen since the 1970s. But is this renewed financial situation good for the soil? The history of prairie agriculture might suggest otherwise.