MELFORT, Sask. — The honey production season is short and intense for bees and beekeepers. Six-month jobs aren’t that attractive to Canadian workers so most honey producers rely on temporary foreign workers who go home after the season. The Canadians they do employ get laid off for the winter. For that reason, Stacey Zosel and […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Superfoods aren’t just for people, says pet food maker
MOOSE JAW, Sask. — A small Winnipeg company is gaining ground in the premium pet food market with its formulations based on whole superfoods, many of them sourced in western Canada. The list of ingredients in Smack Pet Foods products is similar to what pet owners themselves might eat. Free-range chicken from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, […] Read more
Students grow pizzas, raise burgers
PENSE, Sask. — Schoolchildren and community residents scrambled around a large circle in a field at the edge of town earlier this month in what appeared to be mass confusion but was actually organized chaos. Tomato plants went in one slice of the circle and peppers in another. A Hereford heifer calf stood patiently in […] Read more
Canada’s Farm Progress Show 2015: Daily coverage
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Sask. compost site ‘poster child’ for other large-scale projects
The compost has to be screened and tested before the compost is offered for sale to the public
A large-scale composting project at Yorkton, Sask., is diverting millions of litres of canola waste from the city’s landfill and turning it into a valuable commodity. The city just hasn’t figured out what to do with it yet. Participants at a recent compost field day heard that municipalities and organizations looking to start large-scale composting […] Read more
Bourgault expands, upgrades
The machinery manufacturer designed the facility around a Japanese model to improve efficiencies
ST. BRIEUX, Sask. — An expansion covering 4.5 acres and costing $50 million should be in full production at Bourgault Industries Ltd. by summer’s end. “We’re going to improve our efficiencies so we’re going to be able to consolidate our work,” said Rob Fagnou, marketing specialist at the company. Manufacturing of drills and tillage equipment […] Read moreProducer input on land ownership urged
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Sask-atchewan cattle producers do not agree on whether to change their position regarding farmland ownership. One resolution at the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association annual meeting suggested institutional investors and non-Canadian entities should be restricted from buying agricultural land, as originally intended by the Saskatchewan Farm Security Act. Another recommended the SSGA […] Read more
Compost: who wants it, will it pay?
Consider the end result when starting a large-scale compost project, a master composter advises. Larry Mullen of the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council said it’s easy enough to start composting but then what? “What are you going to use it for?” he asked representatives of municipalities and organizations at a recent field day. There is no […] Read more
Keep watch on fusarium online
A new management tool is available to help Saskatchewan producers assess fusarium head blight risk and decide how to manage it. Faye Dokken-Bouchard, the provincial government’s plant disease specialist, unveiled risk management maps at the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission semi-annual meeting held during Canada’s Farm Progress Show. She said the maps will be updated daily, […] Read more
More water kept in Lake Diefenbaker; S. Sask. River level to drop
Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency will again reduce outflow from Lake Diefenbaker beginning June 30. The agency said the daily average release will drop from 80 cubic metres per second to 60 m3/s to maintain levels in the reservoir. Inflows from the Rocky Mountains are expected to be well below normal from June to September, the […] Read more
