Perennial crop insurance deadline looms
Perennial crop producers who wish to sign up for insurance for the 2018 crop year must do so by the end of February.
Perennial crop insurance options have been modified this year.
More information is at afsc.ca or call AFSC at 877-899-2372.
Video tweet wins innovators contest
Arinjay Banerjee, PhD candidate in the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, has won the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) #IAmInnovation Twitter contest.
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Banerjee is conducting research at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre on the potentially high impact of emerging viruses on humans.
He submitted a video tweet showing how VIDO-InterVac facilities funded by CFI are helping him.
Banerjee will get a chance to take over CFI’s Twitter account for up to four hours on a business day before March.
The account has more than 10,000 followers, including some of Canada’s leading researchers, innovative companies and science media.
Legacy fund commemorates Alta. fire victim
The Western Stock Growers Association has established the James Hargrave Legacy Fund to promote intergenerational knowledge transfer to help improve grasslands and grassland management and to work on improving the marketplace for ecosystem services.
Hargrave of Walsh, Alta., was killed last autumn while fighting a wildfire in southeastern Alberta. He was active with the stock growers association as well the Alberta Grazing Lease Association.
The fund will award one recipient each year whose work in the beef and grazing industry exemplifies the philosophy Hargrave lived and worked by.
The recipient will also be entitled to a mentorship with James Hargrave Legacy Fund board members.
To donate to the fund, send cheques made out to James Hargrave Legacy Fund to:
James Hargrave Legacy Fund
c/o WSGA
Box 179, #14-900 Village Lane
Okotoks, Alta., T1S 1Z6
Donors can also send e-transfers to JHLegacyFund@gmail.com.
New self-assessment tool available
Farm Management Canada, the Ontario agriculture ministry and the Prince Edward Island department of agriculture and fisheries have launched a farm business assessment tool called Growing your farm profits: planning for business success online farm business self-assessment tool.
The tool will provide producers with the first step in the business planning process.
Producers will have a comprehensive assessment of their farm business practices, priorities, goals and action plan.
Producers can complete the online assessment on their own or invite other members of the farm team to help.
Once completed, the action plan can be submitted for validation.
Producers may be eligible for cost-shared opportunities to hire a consultant or participate in training and learning events to improve their business practices.
For more information, visit omafra.gov.on.ca/English/busdev/gyfp/.
