Organizers say last week’s Western Canada Farm Progress Show was one of the best ever. Record attendance and tens of millions of dollars in sales highlighted the June 17-19 event, said show manager Rob O’Connor. “I think in my experience this is number one or number two,” he said.”Our international component was spectacular this year.” […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Sometimes farming really bytes – Editorial Notebook
My son recently quit farming. So did several of his friends. They decided farming was too much work even though they could make money on the crops they selected. Potatoes and grapes turned a particularly good profit – overnight, in fact. Sown after supper and homework one evening, the spuds could be harvested the next […] Read more
Sask. NDP looks for rural support
The Saskatchewan NDP is looking to rebuild in rural constituencies, and last week its new leader named himself the party’s agriculture critic as part of that process. Dwain Lingenfelter is the only active farmer in caucus. He has a grain farm near Regina, an organic grain farm at Frontier, Sask., and his family’s mixed operation […] Read more
Drought strategy in place: Sask.
Saskatchewan agriculture minister Bob Bjornerud said he and his officials are monitoring the drought and are already helping those affected. Last week NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter called on the province for a plan to help cattle producers who don’t have feed or pasture. He said producers need to know if they can expect help getting […] Read more
Stock growers elect officials
Rockglen producer Calvin Knoss is the new president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association. He was elected to the board for a two-year term earlier this month and takes over from Ed Bothner of Beechy. Rounding out the executive are: first vice-president Mark Elford of McCord, second vice-president Doug Gillespie of Neville and finance chair […] Read more
Sask. outstanding farmers improve dairy herd
Dairy farmers Art and Elaine Pruim are the 2009 Outstanding Young Farmers for Saskatchewan. The Osler, Sask., couple accepted the award during the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina June 19. An emotional Art Pruim, a third generation dairy farmer, said their parents told the young couple to spread their wings so, in 1998, […] Read more
Farm Progress Show starts with fire works
Smoke hung in the air June 15 as exhibitors moved equipment into place at Regina’s Evraz Place. Pressure washers cleaned soot and ashes off trucks, tractors and trailers that had arrived for the Western Canada Farm Progress Show before fire destroyed the historical Grain Show building June 14. The remains of the building, built in […] Read more
Sask. farmers face drought
MOOSE JAW, Sask. – Many Saskatchewan cow-calf producers have now added drought to their lengthy list of worries. Producers attending the recent Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association convention here said pastures are poor and feed will be in short supply, particularly in west-central areas. Outgoing association president Ed Bothner of Beechy said this will affect cattle […] Read more
Sask. landfill ready to take rendered SRM
A large pit in the Saskatchewan Rural Municipality of Canwood lies ready to accept what once went into animal feed and fertilizer but is now considered too dangerous. The landfill has been approved to accept specified risk material from slaughter plants after it is rendered at Saskatoon Processing Co., a division of West Coast Reduction. […] Read more
ABP plans for refundable levy
MOOSE JAW, Sask. – Some Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association members are still wary of how a new provincial cattle organization will do business. A year after the membership voted to support forming the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, questions and hard feelings remain. Talk about moving the SSGA, SCA and Saskatchewan Cattle Feeders Association into a common […] Read more
