Karen Morrison

David and Vicky Krause are banking on markets for lentil lasagna to help them live, farm and raise their family in rural Saskatchewan. Lentil lasagna is the flagship for a line of lentil-based food products they hope to develop under their company name, Pulsewise Foods. “We believe it has the potential to be successful and […] Read more

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Marketing and developing pulse products are as important as increasing production and controlling disease in the crop, said Barbara Podhorodeski of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. As a director, she has focused her efforts on reaching the consumer through new markets like oven-ready convenience products. Women are still largely responsible for the […] Read more

Farmers have mixed feelings about the value of baiting pocket gophers, finding the money better spent on irrigated acres than dryland. These findings come from a three-year pocket gopher control project initiated by the Irrigation Crop Development Corp. on 2,750 acres in the Lake Diefenbaker area. Les Bohrson, senior agrologist with irrigation resources at Saskatchewan […] Read more

Wolseley, Sask., will serve as the corporate headquarters of Natural Valley Farms. The Saskatchewan-based investor group wants to establish a gate-to-plate vertically integrated natural beef brand and create new markets for culled cattle by the end of the year. It said March 15 it would locate its corporate offices and a processing and marketing facility […] Read more

ESTON, Sask.-The work on and off farm that has sustained Ian and Carol Price in recent years will be a necessity for the next generation coming into the business. “The family farm now is a real business. You have to watch your money more so now than before,” said Ian, who started a grain farm […] Read more

His sale prices are down 20 percent but Danny Willows is happy to find a new life for horses that once produced pregnant mare’s urine. The equine rancher from Buck Lake, Alta., had planned to ship 25 Quarter horse and Paint mares to Kentucky and Texas in March. The three- to eight-year-old horses were to […] Read more

A $61.8 million vaccine centre at the University of Saskatchewan is designed to help researchers combat food and water contamination, protect human health and create opportunities for animal health manufacturers. The University of Saskatchewan announced its intention March 8 to open the International Vaccine Centre by 2009, following the pledge of $19.2 million from the […] Read more

IRON SPRINGS, Alta. – Farming needs to be presented in a positive light today to encourage youth to make it part of their life tomorrow, says Christine Van Raay. From inside her sprawling ranch home adjacent to one of six feedlot sites at Cor Van Raay Farms, she stressed the importance of presenting farming as […] Read more

The removal of testing and treatment requirements for bluetongue and anaplasmosis in feeder cattle imported from the United States offers sheep producers little benefit and great risk, says Randy Eros of the Canadian Sheep Federation. The diseases are not hazardous to humans, but bluetongue can kill sheep and anaplasmosis can make them sick. “For us, […] Read more

The consolidation of large food companies will drive farm business and dictate when, how and where farmers produce, says an expert in agricultural finance and business management. The movement toward super-sized Wal-Mart stores with huge food departments will require farmers to shift from one-year plans to three- to five-year plans, said David Kohl of Virginia […] Read more