Whooping crane project
A Saskatchewan government project will work on establishing a new whooping crane breeding population in Canada and the U.S.
The provincial government received $25,000 from Fuji Photo Film to help fund whooping crane research.
Dale Hjertaas of Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management, and Brian Johns of the Canadian Wildlife Service, will lead the research on behalf of the Whooping Crane Recovery Team.
About 277 endangered whooping cranes exist and the only flock nests in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. They winter in Texas.
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Program seeks youth
Applications are now being accepted for the 1994 Co-operative Youth Program. Alberta youth, looking for an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills, should consider the Rural Education and Development Association’s Co-operative Youth Program, held at the Goldeye Centre.
There are three different seminars to choose from: teen, youth and grad. Each seminar is one week during July and August.
Bull buying recognized
The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration has received recognition for 10 consecutive years of bull buying at the Saskatchewan Livestock Centre near Regina.
PFRA has purchased more than 100 yearling bulls in the 10-year history of the association, 12 of them this spring.
The Saskatchewan Beef Cattle Performance Association was formed as a non-profit multibreed corporation to test beef cattle for economically important traits. The membership from 13 breed associations and the commercial sector take a co-operative approach to managing the test centre.
SLC sale averages for 13 breeds were: Charolais $2,909, Limousin $2,729, Blonde d’Aquitaine $3,063, Maine Anjou $2,488, Simmental $2,726, Salers $2,536, Gelbvieh $3,194, Angus and Red Angus $2,722, Red Poll $2,247, Hereford and Polled Hereford $2,375 and Shorthorn $2,114. Open commercial heifers sold for an average of $1,063.
