Saskatchewan rural municipalities are getting $500,000 to help deal with beaver problems. The increasing number of beavers and dams is resulting in more damage across the province. Two resolutions presented to delegates at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities convention in Saskatoon this week called for a bounty on the rodents and assistance to help […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Producers claim heavy losses in missing payments
Livestock producers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba say they could be out $2 million after a Winnipeg trucker stopped operating and didn’t pay them. Jason Becker of Calder, Sask., said he hasn’t been paid for two loads of fat cattle that G &M Livestock took to the United States for slaughter in January. He said the […] Read more
Crop insurance turns 50 in Saskatchewan
The summer of 1961 was hot, dry and dusty. The driest parts of Saskatchewan got less than half of normal annual precipitation. Livestock producers were selling off animals while others held out for government freight assistance to bring in feed. Crops in many areas were a write-off but for some producers in 25 rural municipalities […] Read more
Rural infrastructure, health care on agenda: NDP
Saskatchewan needs an infrastructure renewal program for rural areas, says the province’s opposition leader Dwain Lingenfelter. Heading into the last legislative sitting before the Nov. 7 election, the Saskatchewan New Democrat leader said last week he will raise that and other rural issues during the three-month session. Many smaller centres can’t afford to undertake the […] Read more
Community pasture fees increasing
Livestock producers who use Saskatchewan community pastures will pay higher grazing fees this year. Brand inspection fees are also going up. The increases were announced March 2 and are among several fee increases the provincial government is implementing for the next fiscal year. Agriculture minister Bob Bjornerud said pasture patrons had been notified of the […] Read more
Meat project processors selected
Robert Lundquist can sell meat on one side of his city, but not legally on the other. The president of Diamond 7 Meats in Lloydminster hopes to change that by participating in an interprovincial meat trade pilot project. Diamond 7, a meat processor located on the Saskatchewan side of the city that straddles the Alberta […] Read more
No vote on Daylight Savings Time for Sask.
Saskatchewan voters will not have their say this fall on whether the province switches to daylight saving time.The government had promised a referendum in the November election, but a recent poll found that two-thirds of those surveyed didn’t want to switch and only 27 percent supported the move. Municipal affairs minister Darryl Hickie said the […] Read more
Domtar sells Sask. pulp mill
The shuttered Prince Albert Pulp Mill, once considered by Iogen for an ethanol plant, has been sold. Paper Excellence has purchased the building from Domtar and will convert it to produce dissolving pulp used in a variety of products, such as rayon. The company intends to invest more than $200 million in the conversion, which […] Read more
Brand inspection, community pasture grazing fees going up
Livestock producers who use Saskatchewan community pastures will pay higher grazing fees this year. Brand inspection fees are also going up. The increases were announced March 2 and are among several fee increases the provincial government is implementing for the next fiscal year. Agriculture minister Bob Bjornerud said pasture patrons had been notified of the […] Read more
Judge reserves decision on Agricultural Operations Review Board
A Queen’s Bench judge has reserved decision in a case argued March 3 in Regina about whether the provincial Agricultural Operations Review Board should hear a complaint.RJ Farms, of Fairlight, Sask., wants the board to deal with a situation it deems hazardous to its bison operation.Teresa and Jo Walker have an adjacent sheep operation, and […] Read more
