Delegates gathered in Regina from March 13 to 16 for the annual Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities convention.

Premier Scott Moe and a number of his cabinet ministers met with delegates to discuss a variety of issues from the grain backlog to the carbon tax and rural crime.

SARM President Ray Orb says Justice Minister Don Morgan told the group more needs to be done, alluding that they may need to enhance the trespassing law.

"The way the law is now, people have to post their rural property as no trespassing," he said. "People are not happy about having to put signs up. They think that people shouldn't be coming onto their private property unless they do have permission."

Orb says they also had a good presentation from Crime Stoppers, adding that there were also one-on-one sessions with the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP's 'F' Division.

Other topics came about in the political bearpit session, according to Orb, who says there is much concern about grain transportation and the backlog.

"We are pretty much in the eighth month of the current crop year, and this is an urgent situation, and Minister Stewart knows that and he is trying to do all he can," Orb said. "It's really frustrating to see the grain backup and farmers being kind of under the financial gun."

"I think there is a lot of stress that is unnecesarily being caused to farmers right now."

Orb says they have been urging the Senate to pass Bill C-49, which is currently stalled.