Diane Rogers

This year’s drought has brought a change to the rules for Saskatchewan 4-H livestock clubs. Traditionally, the clubs require 4-H members to show a live animal at the spring achievement days. But with the feed shortage and dry pastures causing some ranchers to cull their herds, some 4-H members might be without an animal. “We […] Read more

WYNYARD, Sask. – Karen Buller thinks her business motto is corny but true. “A little deli for your belly,” is what she scrawled on a piece of paper during a seminar sponsored by the Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Inc. As a member of the group, she learned skills she could apply when she bought a […] Read more

When rural teens pile into a couple of pick-up trucks to drive around, is that the same as urban gangs roaming the streets? Most informal sources say no, but social work professor Barry Hall and his research colleagues want to know if that fits into the issue of rural youth activities and violence. In an […] Read more

Three prairie farm women are among the official Canadian delegation of 10 that is being funded to attend the third World Congress on Rural Women in Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2-4. Up to a dozen more women may be attending as private individuals, said Gail Erickson of Agriculture Canada’s Farm Women’s Bureau. She is the only […] Read more

Carol Pittman spent her youth in a 4-H horse club in Lacadena, Sask. So when she married and moved to a ranch at Kyle, Sask., she was surprised that there was no 4-H club in the district. Eight years ago, she and Stan Figley of Whitebear, Sask., started a program and became leaders in a […] Read more

This year’s drought isn’t the only reason for fewer students attending several agricultural colleges across the Prairies. General agricultural courses are losing students this fall in favour of more specific courses. Bob Tyler, associate dean of the agriculture college at the University of Saskatchewan, said his college has been recording lower enrolments in both the […] Read more

Women looking for snap lids to fit their gem preserving jars, a line that has been discontinued by the manufacturer, are having to turn to friends or relatives who may have leftover lids from past canning seasons. Others, reluctant to shell out money to buy the new line of glass jars and lids, are turning […] Read more

It looks like 10 Canadians will get government assistance to attend a rural women’s conference in Spain in October. The Spanish conference is the third such farm women’s global gathering, following up on the first held in Australia in 1994 and the second in Washington, D.C., in 1998. Lack of money and doubts about the […] Read more

KINDERSLEY, Sask. – A wall of muted nature colours and fabrics that resemble river pebbles, grass and autumn leaves are revealed when one walks into Veronica’s Sewing Supplies. The fabric store is celebrating its 23rd year in business with an attention to detail as probing as a quilter stitching a pattern. The 616 sq. metre […] Read more

WILKIE, Sask. – Jim Skinner got fed up sitting in a lineup at the local elevator every August, so he decided to do something about it. He and other farmers in northwestern Saskatchewan built their own terminal in the nearby town of Unity. It was the beginning of a process that led to two other […] Read more