Canadian pea shipments to China are expected to increase as the consumption of vermicelli noodles traditionally made and eaten in northern China expands across the country. Pulse Canada’s Greg Cherewyk said the white noodles from Shandong province are becoming popular as disposable income rises and people change their eating patterns. For more than 300 years […] Read more
Karen Briere
Stories by Karen Briere
Generating project would be Sask. biggest
PENSE, Sask. – A polygeneration plant proposed by TransCanada Corp. for a site near two fertilizer plants would be the largest industrial project in Saskatchewan history. The $4 billion facility, situated on about 100 acres in the Rural Municipality of Pense industrial park near Belle Plaine, would employ as many as 2,500 people at peak […] Read more
Sask. to sell Big Sky stake
The For Sale sign isn’t out yet but the Saskatchewan government will eventually sell its majority shares in the province’s largest hog producer, Big Sky Farms. Enterprise and Innovation minister Lyle Stewart said taxpayers shouldn’t be involved in a high-risk investment to such an extent. The government holds 62.5 percent of the equity in the […] Read more
Market choice proponents consider pressure tactics
WEYBURN, Sask. – Farmers who want grain marketing choice aren’t willing to wait until proposed legislative changes work their way through Parliament. More than 200 people gathered March 6 at a meeting organized by the Farmers For Justice to discuss what they could do immediately to get out from under the Canadian Wheat Board’s export […] Read more
Mayer revisits efforts to alter grain trade
WEYBURN, Sask. – Removing barley from the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly is proving more difficult than some farmers think it should be. Frustrated at the politics involved and the time it is taking, farmers who favour marketing choice met here last week to plan a course of action. Charlie Mayer, the Conservative agriculture minister responsible […] Read more
Future seen as bright for Sask. ag
Agriculture may be making a comeback in Saskatchewan. Graham Parsons, president of the Organization for Western Economic Co-operation, told the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association’s recent convention that he expects agriculture to once again lead the economy in Saskatchewan. The province’s advantage, he said, is the fact that it has 36 percent of all Canadian agricultural […] Read more
Marketing brings bigger returns
Fred Fleming and Karl Kupers wanted more out of their crops. They also wanted their farms to be environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. Farming in the rain shadow of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, where rainfall averages about 300 millimetres a year, they were early adopters of no-till systems to prevent soil erosion. Fleming told the Saskatchewan […] Read more
Community re-establishes its own school
Less than a year after losing their school, Wilcox, Sask., residents have established a new Catholic school division. The former public school in the village closed last June after the Prairie Valley School Division deemed its enrolment of about 50 unsustainable. The school had only been in the division for a year, operating on its […] Read more
School boards wait on gov’t
When the Saskatchewan legislature resumes sitting March 10, school boards, communities, teachers and students will all be watching to see what the government has planned for them. The government has said it wants all boards to consider postponing any school closures until funding and legislative decisions have been made. Premier Brad Wall has written at […] Read more
Rodeo cowboy on receiving end of donations
Tom Reardon is accustomed to raising money for others. He certainly never expected others would do the same for him. But an explosion and fire Feb. 6 that left him badly burned and homeless pushed friends and neighbours into action. They took an annual charity hockey game he initiated and turned the proceeds over to […] Read more
