Weed Inspector
Our weed inspector is Marksmen Vegetation Management. They identify areas in the municipality infested with noxious weeds. They treat municipal right of ways with herbicide and provide weed notices to property owners whose land contains noxious weeds. Land owners are required to control noxious weeds on their property.
Marksmen can be contacted at 306-585-8008.
Invasive Plant Control Program
SARM administers a 50:50 cost-share rebate program to assist with costs to control all prohibited weeds and eligible herbicide costs to control a limited number of noxious weeds of high concern designated under The Weed Control Act.
The deadline to claim under the IPCP is October 31.
Click here for program guidelines, application forms, and more.
July 29, 2025
Dear Stakeholder:
This is to inform you that the new Minister’s Order Designating Prohibited, Noxious and Nuisance Weeds (Minister’s Order) came into effect on July 3, 2025. The Minister’s Order contains the list of weed species enforceable under The Weed Control Act. To keep The Weed Control Act relevant and remain proactive, the list of enforceable weed species must be reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
After careful consideration of the feedback received during the consultation process, adjustments were made to the proposed Minister’s Order which includes keeping kochia as a noxious weed, adding creeping bellflower as a noxious weed and keeping four aquatic weeds (yellow floating heart, curly-leaved pondweed, flowering rush and Eurasian water-milfoil) that were initially proposed to be removed, on the prohibited weeds list.
Prohibited weeds are aggressive invasive species that are either absent or rare in the province. The goal of enforcement is eradication, to protect the economy and environment from the long-term costs and damages of managing these weeds. With the addition of 18 new proposed prohibited species and the downgrade of one species to noxious, the total number of prohibited species will increase to 44.
Noxious weeds are established in some parts of the province beyond practical eradication. The goal of enforcement is eradication of isolated infestations and the containment and control of established infestations, thereby increasing and protecting productive acres in the province. There are four proposed noxious species, and six species downgraded to nuisance which will bring the total number of noxious species to 37.
Nuisance weeds are widely established in the province, but their ease of spread is concerning, hence the designation. The goal of enforcement is to reduce the growth and impact of the species. The number of nuisance weeds will increase to 13. Unlike prohibited and noxious weeds, weed inspectors only have the authority to act on nuisance weeds when a complaint is received.
A copy of The Weed Control Act can be found at https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/31364 .
On this page there are also links under related products to:
• The Weed Control Regulations
• The current Ministers Order Designating Prohibited, Noxious and Nuisance Weeds (Gazette Part I, July 18, 2025 – pages 13-16).
The Ministry of Agriculture remains fully committed to supporting monitoring, research, extension and programming initiatives in the province to mitigate the impact from these designated invasive weeds.
If you and your organization participated in the consultation, I want to say thank you for taking the time, the feedback we received was valuable.
Sincerely,
Faye Dokken, Executive Director, Crops and Irrigation Branch
cc: Tayo Adegeye, Provincial Specialist Pest Regulatory
Cory Jacob, Provincial Specialist Weed Control
bcc: Barb Ziesman, Director, Production Technology