Karen Morrison

Cowboy Kim Rose has carried the newborn calf, retrieved the last stray and rode the horse in his paintings. The 52 year old worked on ranches in Canada and the United States for two decades before settling into work at Saskatoon Livestock Sales. All of his artwork depicts people, places and animals he has known, […] Read more

The reception area at Saskatoon Livestock Sales is usually dotted with young men looking for advice from Michael Fleury about getting into the cattle business. This snowy fall morning, only a middle-aged couple arrives to pick up a jacket they won at a recent cattle sale. Despite the downturn in traffic at these yards between […] Read more

A northwestern Saskatchewan game farm is the latest site of a positive case of chronic wasting disease. Sandra Stephens, a disease control specialist with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said a 27-month-old female elk was diagnosed with the fatal brain disease this month. After it died on the farm in September, its head was submitted […] Read more

An Alberta researcher wants to bring fresh saskatoon berries to grocers’ produce shelves so growers have more markets. Jocelyn Ozga, a horticulture professor at the University of Alberta, is testing plastic wraps to determine which help saskatoons stay fresh and tasty for consumers. “The problem is (saskatoons) lose their flavour at room temperature very rapidly,” […] Read more

The ski season came early for northern Albertans this year, with many crops in the Peace region sitting under a heavy blanket of snow. Mel and Troy Venning of Fairview had 900 aces of unharvested barley, canola and peas beneath the 15 centimetres of snow received by Oct. 18. The region was under a heavy […] Read more

Incubating eggs before storage can improve the hatch rate by 10 percent and increase profitability for chicken producers, says Gaylene Fasenko of the University of Alberta. The poultry embryologist said eggs are routinely stored on the farm or in hatcheries for days before they are put into production. She found that eggs stored for four […] Read more

Moisture was a welcome visitor on the parched Prairies this year but it brought along unwelcome problems. Ergot infestations are up in crops around Edmonton, one of the wettest regions, said Kevin Sich, general manager with Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd. in Joffre, Alta. He said the area received good moisture but also dealt with ergot […] Read more

Community Pork Ventures Inc. says it will reveal its its long-term plans for restructuring to shareholders in November. The company recently extended its agreement with lenders until Dec. 15, which allowed it to delay paying some shareholders and provided more time for financial reviews. John Hicke, who became president and chief executive officer with Community […] Read more

Improperly managed livestock regulations can move the problem around without offering concrete solutions, says an American researcher. Henry Tyrrell, who retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture this summer, told delegates at the Western Nutrition Conference in Saskatoon on Sept. 29 that relaxed enforcement of environmental rules in North Carolina allowed the hog industry to […] Read more

Perdue Agri Recycle Ltd. is an example of how a company can find markets for chicken manure. Three years ago, the firm opened the world’s largest manure recycling plant in Seaford, Delaware, to manage waste from the world’s largest concentration of poultry operations in the DelMar Peninsula. “Manure was the first fertilizer and it’s still […] Read more