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Economic Development Regina study indicates $11 billion spent during spring seeding

Economic Development Regina (EDR) is calling spring seeding Saskatchewan’s largest megaproject.

EDR’s Data and Analytics team studied the importance of agriculture in the city’s and provincial economies.

President and CEO Chris Lane said the importance of agriculture cannot be understated.

“When you consider the impact of this work extending across our economy, it’s impossible to overstate the value of agriculture to our province and our city,” Lane said.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.