Case New Holland’s manufacturing plant in Saskatoon will get new jobs and investment as part of a corporate restructuring. The corporation says 130 new workers will be needed for the expansion that should be in full production by the first quarter of 2008. At a news conference Nov. 3, Saskatoon plant manager Brad Redekopp said […] Read more
Stories by Michael Bell
Antibiotic replacement explored
What would you do with $1.75 million? Happy researchers at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatoon don’t have to wonder. They’ll be using $1.75 million in new funding over the next three years to find a better way to treat bacterial infections in animals. The project will begin with poultry and swine, but […] Read more
Testing planned for banned antibiotic
American and Canadian government food safety authorities say they will work together to prevent a banned hog medication from entering the Canadian food system. “We’re comfortable with a legitimate process for testing product to ensure there are no residues of carbadox in U.S. pork that would be entering Canada,” said Neil Dierks, chief executive officer […] Read more
Spud producers need better info
Potato growers in Canada need better market information to successfully match supply with demand, says Garry Sloik, chair of the United Potato Growers of Canada. “We’ve found that there is a tremendous lack of market information collected in Canada.” Sloik said that UPGC will work with Agriculture Canada to improve InfoHort, a website that provides […] Read more
Community searches for a vision
A Manitoba community is inviting farmers and rural people to a friendly competition of vision. Not the 20/20 kind, though. “It’s a contest of ideas,” said Cathy Day of Boissevain, Man. The Turtle Mountain Community Development Corp., of which Day is a member, wants rural Manitobans to put pen to paper and submit their ideas […] Read more
Fistula research revealing
The eyes are the window to the soul, it is said. But a fistula is a window to the stomach. A cow’s stomach, specifically. For Tim Mutsvangwa’s feed research on dairy cows, the fistula, which is a hole with a removable plug, allows him to see right inside. “It’s a window for us to get […] Read more
Potato growers try to match consumer appetite
The reasons to match potato supply to market demand couldn’t be more clear for Ivan Noonan. “If we want to have our people and have our farms and have our kids and grandkids continue to feed us for the future, we needed to do something,” Noonan said. It appears the efforts might be paying off. […] Read more
Maple Leaf pulls plug on hog plant
Maple Leaf Foods shocked Saskatchewan hog producers last week when it announced it has changed its mind about building a $110 million slaughter plant in Saskatoon. In its Oct. 12 announcement, which was part of a major restructuring plan for the company, Maple Leaf also said it will close its existing Mitchell’s Gourmet Foods slaughter […] Read more
Farmers beat birds to prairie crops
Most producers will be happy to bird watch this fall, even if the flocks are in their fields. Prairie crop insurance corporations report that claims for crop damage caused by waterfowl are down this year compared to last, and all say the early harvest is the reason. Saskatchewan producers made about 2,000 depredation claims in […] Read more
CWD discovery may prompt live animal test
A recent study has found that chronic wasting disease may spread though the saliva and blood of infected deer. CWD was first detected in Colorado in the late 1960s, but scientists have never been able to determine how the disease spreads so easily from one infected animal to the next. “It is the first time […] Read more
