PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Some rural dwellers don’t want to pay the fee to belong to the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, said delegates to last week’s APAS meeting. Member rural municipalities now pay a six cents per acre fee to maintain membership in APAS, down from the 10 cents assessment with which the organization began. […] Read more
Stories by Michael Raine
Farm lobby suggests protest
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Saskatchewan’s farm lobby group is resolved to increase public awareness of agriculture’s economic plight. At the semi-annual meeting here June 17 of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, the delegates instructed their board of directors to plan a public awareness campaign. Tim Korol of Colonsay, representing that rural municipality, said the […] Read more
Canola industry recognizes Polish pioneer
SHELLBROOK, Sask. – In 1928, Fred and Olga Solovonuk planted seed brought from their homeland and kick-started an entire industry. Today’s multibillion-dollar canola industry traces back to the couple’s pioneer farm, five kilometres south of Shellbrook. Among their settlers’ possessions they carried from Turysyk, Poland, was a tied handkerchief full of rapeseed or Brassica rapa. […] Read more
Biodiesel plant turns slaughter waste into fuel
In a few weeks, Canada’s largest biodiesel plant will jump 8.5 times in size and become an internationally competitive facility, producing 35 million litres annually. Claude Bourgault of Rothsay, Canada’s largest animal and fat waste rendering company, plans to make a splash in the world market in July by loading a 500,000 litre tanker bound […] Read more
Veterinary college turns 40
There were no plastic flamingos in the fountain or toilet paper wrapping the ramp, but this 40th birthday is not going unnoticed on the University of Saskatchewan campus. Western Canada’s veterinary school is celebrating the education of more than 2,120 veterinarians since the first class began its training in 1965. The college marked the event […] Read more
New building to enhance vet college’s role
Expansion and renovation dominate this year’s agenda at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Planning for the $48 million project is almost complete and construction is under way at Western Canada’s veterinary college on the University of Saskatchewan campus. The expansion will reduce overcrowding in the treatment and teaching facilities and build modern research labs […] Read more
Saskatchewan landscape captured on canvas
Artist Greg Hardy took a landscape that feeds the world and used it as his inspiration “to create an image that feeds the soul.” Scotiabank commissioned the Saskatoon artist to be a permanent part of the Western Development Museum’s upcoming centennial exhibition Winning the Prairie Gamble – The Saskatchewan Story. The painting depicts an isolated […] Read more
Farmer believes in never standing still
SALMON ARM, B.C. – Change, adapt, change again and prepare for more change. It might sound like a disaster in many farm businesses, but Kay Carr believes that it works, provided producers don’t lose focus on their operating goals. She and her former partner converted an 80 acre hay farm, in the dry northern end […] Read more
Fall-seeded crops survive winter
Winter cereals are faring well this spring, largely because of ideal growing conditions last fall. “It was a nearly ideal fall; it stayed warm a long time then gradually cooled down until freeze-up,” said Bob Linell of Winter Cereals Canada. “Most areas got good snow cover after that.” He said most of the fall cereals, […] Read more
Balance sought over wetlands, ag land
Agriculture will have to be front and centre in any provincial government effort to protect prairie wetlands, a conference on wetland management was told recently. Patricia Farnese of the University of Saskatchewan told civil servants, engineers, hydrologists, environmentalists, municipal staff and elected officials attending the Wetland Policy and Mitigation Workshop that new regulations shouldn’t disproportionately […] Read more
