Manitoba beef and forage days:
Jan. 16: Teulon, Hilmar Johnson, 204-886-4405
Feb. 3: Miniota, John Popp, 204-867-6572
Feb. 4: Belmont, John Popp, 204-867-6572
Jan. 16-17: Canadian Bull Congress, Camrose, Alta., 780-672-3640
Jan. 20: Crop Talk 2004, Tisdale, Sask. (Leroy Bader, 306-878-8805)
Jan. 20-21: Cattlemen’s Corral Crop Visions, Lloydminster (Mike Sidoryk, 306-825-5571)
Jan. 20-22: Manitoba Ag Days, Keystone Centre, Brandon (Owen Beever, 204-571-6566)
Jan. 20-23: Pork Seminar, Banff Centre for Conferences, Banff, Alta., 780-492-3651
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Jan. 21: Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alta.
Jan. 22: Lynnwood Ranch, Okotoks. Alta.
Understanding Canadian Agriculture Income Stabilization Program workshop:
Jan. 21: Holiday Inn, Yorkton, Sask. (Ed Armstrong, 780-954-3769 or Rachael Kraynick, 306-786-1528)
Jan. 22: Civic Centre, Rosetown, Sask. (Ed Armstrong, 780-954-3769 or John Ippolito, 306-882-5454)
Jan. 22-25: Organic Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., 519-824-4120
Jan. 24: Gelbvieh winter field day, Davidson Ranch, Ponteix, Sask., 306-625-3755
Jan. 28-29: Manitoba Swine seminar, Best Western Victoria Inn, Winnipeg (Ian Seddon, 204-945-0353)
Jan. 28-30: FarmTech, Mayfield Inn, Edmonton, 866-327-6832
Jan. 30: Cocktails for Cattle fundraiser and benefit auction of western art, fashion and lifestyle items, Coyotes Bar & Dance Saloon, Calgary (Heather Hartmann, 403-291-7077)
Ag programs reorganized
Olds College in Olds, Alta., has reorganized to emphasize its land sciences and horticulture programs.
Joel Gingrich will chair the new school of land sciences and Carole Calenso-Fair will chair the school of horticulture. The land sciences school offers four program areas: land agent; land administration; land and water resources; and crop and agri-food technology.
Limousin directors
The Canadian Limousin Association has changed some of its directors for the coming year.
Tony Gosnell of Ontario is the association’s new president. He succeeds Martin Bohrson of Saskatchewan, whose two-year term ended.
Rob Matthews of Alberta became vice-president and Gary Anderson of Saskatchewan was named treasurer. Helene Gelinas of Quebec and Anderson are new directors.
The association also handed out awards of distinction to Ben and Kathy Plumer of Alberta, Bill and Marg Karwandy of Saskatchewan and Eleanor Ward of Alberta.
PAMI vice-president
The Prairie Agriculture Machinery Institute has named Harvey Chorney as vice-president for Manitoba operations.
Chorney has a degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Manitoba and grew up on a farm near Selkirk, Man. He has worked for more than 20 years in the agriculture manufacturing industry.
“I am looking forward to working at PAMI, meeting our existing clients and developing new areas of expertise for future clients,” Chorney said in a News release
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“I am excited about PAMI’s expansion to support clients in the forestry, mining, transportation, military peacekeeping and manufacturing industries.”
PAMI is an applied research, development and testing organization.
Stewardship award
The Wine Glass Ranch of Cochrane, Alta., received this year’s environmental stewardship award at the annual Alberta Beef Producers meeting.
Operated by Edith Wearmouth and her family, the 3,100 acre ranch was established in 1885. It is located in the foothills south of Cochrane and includes portions of the Jumping Pound Creek, a tributary of the Bow River.
Water management is an important role for the ranch and a number of projects have been developed to save the creek. Portable and permanent electric fencing is used to manage livestock access. Water wells have been developed throughout the ranch for improved grazing distribution.
To preserve native grasses, a controlled grazing plan is used to carry forages over, even in times of drought.
Wearmouth is involved with Trout Unlimited and the riparian habitat management program for continued improvements of the ranch’s water, fish habitat and grasslands.
She and several other local cattle producers recently formed the Jumping Pound Watershed Group to build community awareness of beneficial environmental management.
