Kim MacDonald

It’s almost time to pull out the parkas and snowboots. That means it’s almost time to call ahead for highway conditions before getting on the road. Saskatchewan has just introduced a toll-free highway hotline number to replace 15 different regional numbers in the province. Regina and Saskatoon and their surrounding areas retain their hotline numbers. […] Read more

“I’ve always felt agriculture was on the back burner in a lot of ways,” said Bill Small, a farmer from Craven, Sask. Small has spent most of his life working to change that, and that led to his induction in Canada’s Agricultural Hall of Fame. Small was involved with agricultural organizations at a young age. […] Read more

A breeder’s show with a $42,000 prize for the champion moved to Saskatchewan for the first time in its five-year history. The Breeder’s Classic, held by the Canadian Charolais Association, has been in Red Deer, Alta. since its inception, but the association decided it was time to change. “We moved it to Saskatoon just to […] Read more

Farm work can be one of the most dangerous occupations around. “If farming was a unionized occupation it would be shut down,” said Solomon Kyeremanteng, manager of Alberta Agriculture’s farm safety program. The dangers of farming, ranging from heavy machinery and chemical use to the effects of farm stress, have made farm safety a big […] Read more

Doug Moisey was checking canola in a southern Alberta test plot last summer when something caught his eye – a pod with a hole in it. “It was kind of curled, and it looked anorexic on one side, very thin. And when I opened it up there was this little worm staring back at me, […] Read more

Mother Nature’s fickleness led to wide variations in the prairie honey crop this season. Depending where in Alberta you were, the production picture was “either very rosy or fairly dismal,” said provincial apiculturist Kenn Tuckey. Yields ranged from a high of 250 pounds per colony west of Edmonton to a low of 80 lb. per […] Read more

A rural police officer’s best weapon against crime isn’t a gun, police cruiser or tracking dog. “The best tool is knowledge of the place, knowledge of the people, knowledge of the layout of the land,” said Christopher Braiden, an advocate of community policing. This allows police to recognize inconsistencies such as strange vehicles in the […] Read more

A former president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities and member of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame has been named to the province’s highest honor. Rancher Boyd Anderson, of Glentworth, is one of six recipients of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit for 1997. Anderson got involved with the family ranching business as a […] Read more

A new international agreement being drafted could result in farmers losing the Canadian Wheat Board and being prevented from forming other marketing boards, says the president of the National Farmers Union. Nettie Wiebe is concerned about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a global agreement on the movement of investments, profits and production facilities across borders. […] Read more