The Treaties included promises to provide First Nations with agricultural tools, seeds and livestock.

Many First Nations recognized that their world was changing and regarded the Treaties as a way of helping their people adjust to these changes. Treaty promises of help with farming were included because First Nations negotiators wanted training for their people so that they could adapt to the new way of life being brought upon them.

All the numbered Treaties covering Saskatchewan had promises to provide First Nations with things like ploughs, seeds for important crops, livestock such as cows and bulls, and other farming necessities. These benefits were meant to allow First Nations to take part in the economy of the time which was farming.

Many First Nations did not receive the agricultural benefits that were their right under the Treaties. This combined with the poor quality of much reserve land and a permit system that meant they could not sell anything without permission from the Indian Agent prevented First Nations from effectively taking part in the farming economy.

FURTHER, Her Majesty agrees that each Band that elects to take a reserve and cultivate the soil, shall...receive two hoes, one spade, one scythe and two hay forks for every family so settled, and for every three families one plough and one harrow, and to the Chief, for the use of his Band, two horses or a yoke of oxen, and for each Band potatoes, barley, oats and wheat... and to every family one cow, and every Chief one bull, and one mowing-machine and one reaper...for such families as prefer to raise stock instead of cultivating the soil, every family of five persons, two cows, and every Chief two bulls and two mowing-machines when ready for their use, and a like proportion for smaller or larger families.

— Written Text of Treaty 8

Agricultrual Benefits