Diane Rogers

It is one government program farmers say they are going to miss. The Green Plan received provincial and federal dollars for farm-based research projects dealing with local soil and water quality problems. That program ends March 31 and it doesn’t appear more government money is coming. “Hopefully all the work we’ve started in the last […] Read more

KELVINGTON, Sask. – Jim Little dryly comments there has been a lot of controversy over proposals to build huge hog barns near this northeastern Saskatchewan town. As administrator of the Rural Municipality of Sasman, he has been at public meetings and RM council meetings the past year dealing with the development. “A lot of people […] Read more

Early public involvement in any plans for intensive livestock operations is advised by all three prairie provinces, says a report on ILO implications. The report released in October 1996 by the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Studies in Agriculture, Law and the Environment notes Manitoba has set up regional advisory committees. These are made up […] Read more

After only five months in office, the president of the British Columbia Women’s Institute resigned in October 1996. Membership disgruntlement with the process that led to Muriel Washington being elected as president became too difficult to deal with, so she resigned. Washington was one of two candidates running for the three-year term as president at […] Read more

Leafing through a recently compiled album of 35 years of memories from CUSO volunteers shows they came to similar conclusions. The people who went overseas to work on international development projects expected to make a difference, but ended up changing themselves. More than 50 Saskatchewan people have travelled for the development agency CUSO since it […] Read more

Most Canadians are wandering off the healthy path despite the signposts in the Food Guide. People are eating less fat and more fibre, but they could still improve their diet, says the most recent issue of Meat Probe, a publication of the Beef Information Centre, Canadian Pork Council and Canadian Meat Council. Canadians are following […] Read more

Western Canadian farmers who take business and marketing courses tend to take more than one, say people in the training area. Anita Lunden, the Alberta co-ordinator of a federal-provincial program called the Farm Business Management Initiative, says 15,489 people registered in its courses from October 1992 to April 1996. That represented 11,169 individual farm managers. […] Read more

SASKATOON – Too many farmers “willfully kill off” the business they love by not planning for its future, say two insurance company representatives. The family farm that Grandpa started is usually gone by his great-grandchildren’s time, said Patrick Power of Manulife Financial. The fourth generation loses it by sale, disinterest or lack of financing. Speaking […] Read more

What is good for a farm’s tax strategy is not always in the best interests of farm women. That discrepancy was revealed at legal rights workshops held across Canada the past year, said Shannon Storey of the National Farmers Union. The NFU is one of five groups participating in the national information project that began […] Read more

Judy Junor appears composed, even feisty as she recalls the verbal sparring at a Nov. 20 meeting the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses held with the premier and the health minister. The union president does not fit the frazzled image many nurses are portraying of themselves. “A lot of nurses are extremely frustrated,” because all the […] Read more