Diane Rogers

Health researchers agree that the way a body reacts to food will decide whether a person contracts diabetes. A Saskatoon conference sponsored by Ag-West Bio Inc. April 24-25 examined the link between obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol and type 2 (acquired) diabetes. University of Saskatchewan medical professor Dr. Bernhard Juurlink said glucose is […] Read more

To mark its 100th anniversary in 2010, the Manitoba Women’s Institutes is compiling a cookbook that could include a birthday cake recipe. The real aim is to use the cookbook as a fundraiser for special events during that year. Neither of the cookbook’s organizers, Enid Clark or Valerie Watt, knew if MWI has ever done […] Read more

The house at the curling club in High River, Alta., will still be rocking after the ice goes out this spring. That’s when the newly formed Foothills Floor Shuffleboard Group will take over, creating eight courts on the indoor, concrete surface. Ken Wardley of the group said the game is popular in the United States. […] Read more

Last month John Oystryk visited Creighton, Man., to help with a fish fry, drove to watch the Brier in Winnipeg and played in a curling bonspiel. The Canora, Sask., 83-year-old stays active after retiring from his accounting business three years ago. When he looks back on his long career, Oystryk said he still smiles about […] Read more

WATROUS, Sask. – First the bad news: Sixty percent of Canadians are overweight. More than half of Canadian women don’t drink enough milk or its alternatives, which is why one quarter of them get osteoporosis. You can’t hide from aging. However, a dietitian for the Saskatoon Health Region says this bad news doesn’t have to […] Read more

Two farm women activists from the West are among the five who have won Rosemary Davis awards this year from Farm Credit Canada. Marie Logan, who helps run a pedigreed seed farm and cow-calf operation in Lomond, Alta., is one of the winners. Logan was also was active in provincial education and library groups and […] Read more

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – Finding and keeping employees will probably be the top issue for today’s young farmers, said Jonathan Small of the financial consulting firm Myers Norris Penny. Speaking to the annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Young Ag-Entrepreneurs, Small said human resources would be a bigger challenge for this generation than it was for […] Read more

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – How much shiny iron can a farm have before it’s too much? That question became a debate during a panel discussion by three members of the board of the Saskatchewan Young Ag-Entrepreneurs. SYA chair Lynden Butler asked members what they considered to be the two most important agricultural implements. Combines, seeders […] Read more

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – The Saskatchewan Young Ag-Entrepreneurs scored the top official when they invited a representative of the province’s agriculture department to speak to their convention. The minister, Bob Bjornerud, showed up March 13 to speak to the group. It was “a nice surprise,” said Lynden Butler, chair of the SYA board. Bjornerud noted […] Read more

British Columbia is first off the mark in the West to nominate its candidate for Canada’s outstanding young farmer for 2008. Dairy farmers David and Lisa Taylor of Viewfield Farms in Courtney, B.C., were named the province’s representatives during the annual B.C. Agriculture Gala Feb. 15. They will attend the national contest in Calgary this […] Read more