Co-op gets award
Farmer Direct Co-operative Ltd. of Regina has received a Saskatchewan co-operative merit award.
The co-operative was established in 2002 to market certified organic grain and conducted $900,000 in business during its first year. Annual sales have since increased to $5 million.
Farmer Direct now has 65 members and four employees.
Recipients of the Saskatchewan co-operative merit award are selected by a committee of Saskatchewan Co-operative Association and Regional Economic and Co-operative Development representatives. The award program recognizes outstanding contributions by co-operative and credit union leaders in the areas of volunteerism, leadership and innovation, and inspiration as role models.
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More than 230 individuals and organizations have received co-operative merit awards since the program’s inception in 1980.
Pork gallery management
The Prairie Swine Centre and the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board have reached an agreement to transfer management of the Pork Interpretive Gallery to Sask Pork.
The gallery was designed to give the public a chance to view modern pork production from inside a barn. The centre has operated the gallery for the past three years with help from the pork industry,
The transfer will allow the swine centre to focus on its primary mandate of applied swine production research.
Hall of fame inductees
Five people have been selected for induction into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame for 2007.
The inductees are educator and home economist Alma Jean Copeland of Rosetown, dairy industry innovator Gunnar Heg Pedersen formerly of Regina, farm union policy adviser Stuart Allan Thiesson of Saskatoon, hog industry pioneer Laverne Ole Voldeng of Naicam, and Lily Campbell Williamson, a horse breeder and trainer, formerly of Regina. Pedersen and Williamson are deceased.
The inductions will take place on August 5, 2007. The Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame is housed at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon. More information and biographies of all the past inductees can be viewed at www.sahf.ca.
