Page 12 - Langenburg Community Profile 2020-2021

AGRICULTURE

The largest industry in the Town of Langenburg is agriculture. It covers a 675.66 km2 (260.87 sq mi) area that
includes Langenburg, Marchwell and Yarbo. There are 113 farms operating in the Rural Municipality of
Langenburg # 181, where about 136 people are
employed.
Local farms are also the main employers for the new
Canadians who choose to come to live in this area.

Langenburg is close to three canola crushing plants
that are in Harrowby, Manitoba (10 minutes away)
and Yorkton, Saskatchewan (40 minutes away).
ANNUAL AVERAGE YIELD (BU/AC)
Total farm area is 151,157 acres. The dominant Crop year Canola Spring Wheat Oats Barley
farming is oil-seed and grain farming (69 farms and 2019 48.8 63.5 82.7 86.9
130,159 acres). Our main annual crops are the 2018 39.6 56.4 93.0 76.8
traditional prairie crops: canola (60 farms), spring 2017 39.5 54.7 83.0 76.0
2016
37.1
57.4
41.2
79.5
wheat (58), alfalfa (33), hay (21), oats (18), barley (11), 2015 41.1 47.2 80.4 49.8
flax-seed (8), soybeans (6). Our area's soil is deep
black loam over a subsoil of heavy clay. Yields of
grain grown in this soil are consistently higher and
more reliable than yields in other soils. Also we
benefit from long daylight hours during the summer,
allowing for the production of crops that require a
high number of growing degree days. Lower
temperatures in winter greatly reduce insect
populations, thus limiting the need for pesticides.

The second biggest farming type is beef cattle (24
farms). Other types of farming are: hay farming (7),
animal production (7) including a bee farm, that
produces over 1 million pounds of pure white honey
each year, sheep and goat farming (2), dairy cattle
(1), organic farm (1) and others.

The average price of one quarter of land is
$240,000 as of May, 2020.

RM of Langenburg No. 181
Box 489, Langenburg, SK S0A 2A0
P: (306) 743-2341
F: (306) 743-5282
rm181@sasktel.net