REGINA – Grain and forage show judges at Canadian Western Agribition in
Regina have awarded the Premier Exhibitor prize to the Crooymans family
of Bow Island, Alta., for the fourth time.
The Crooymans won the award for winning grand championship banners for
a sample of AC Barrie in a Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat class and
for an entry of Hylite 289CL canola in the grand aggregate oilseed
category.
The family also captured the reserve grand champion CWRSW award for a
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sample of AC Abbey and the same award in the durum class for an entry
of AC Morse.
Other cereal winners were: Paul Rogg, Pennant, Sask., durum grand
champion, Kyle; Bill Hetland, Naicam, Sask., grand champion in all
other wheat, AC Snowbird; Gerald Girodat, Shaunavon, Sask., winter and
spring rye and triticale class, AC Banjo; Donald Nakonechny, Ruthilda,
Sask., barley class, CDC Copeland; G.A. Fenton, Tisdale, Sask., oats
class, CDC Pacer.
Pulse crop winners were: Leslie Trowell, Saltcoats, Sask., grand
aggregate pulse, DS Admiral field peas; and Gerald Girodat, Shaunavon,
Sask., grand champion lentils, chickpeas and beans, CDC Xena kabuli
chickpeas.
Hay and silage grand champions included Lloyd Sawatzky, Saskatoon,
grass and legume hay; Hubert Freitag, Alameda, Sask., grass hay;
Benjamin Hofer, Hodgeville, Sask., legume hay; and Elaine and Edwin
Newfield, Swan River, Man., other baled forage.
Forage class winners included: Trawin family, Melfort, Sask., grand
champion forage seed and grand aggregate forage award, fleet
bromegrass, and Don Peterson, Tilley, Alta., grand champion alfalfa and
clover award.
Blaine Pedersen of Elm Creek, Man., won grand champion silage for corn.
Dennis Edwards of Tisdale, Sask., won the cereal silage category.
Lisa Peters of Regina swept the Youth Sheaf competition by winning all
three categories of forage, oilseed and cereal.
The junior grain processing award went to Jason Welsh of Milk River,
Alta.
