Tracy Tjaden

New marketing manager Jacques De Corby has been hired as marketing manager for the Canadian Hereford Association. Born and raised on a purebred Hereford farm in southeastern Saskatchewan, De Corby has been active on the show and sale circuit. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and has served on a number of […] Read more

Like a hungry parasite, American-style private health care will slowly creep up on Canada until one day medicare is gone, replaced by a system where the physician has an eye on the bottom line and the patient pays the price. This dire warning from Dr. Claudia Fegan, a Chicago doctor and past-president of the American […] Read more

There’s some good news and bad news for people with a knack for prose and a dream they’ll wake up one day owning waterfront property in the British Columbia Interior. The good news is there’s a $100 cheque in the mail. The bad news is the call saying they won the grand prize is never […] Read more

It took more than luck to seal the deal that will see the biggest potato plant in Western Canada go up near Lucky Lake, Sask. Local economic development officer Doug Barker credits the will of the people. “We’re the type out here to really make things happen,” he said. Local shareholders of the Coteau Hills […] Read more

Traveling around the world and getting a chance to use his marketing skills on high-profile industry and government leaders is not a life Maurice Robert even dared dream about as he slugged through the MBA program at the University of Saskatchewan. But that’s exactly what happened. The 29-year old Saskatoon man is one of 22 […] Read more

Roger McLean ardently believes Saskatchewan chickpeas could sell themselves in India if they had the chance. But Australia, Canada’s largest competitor for chickpeas, pays only a fraction of what it costs pulse producers on the Canadian Prairies to reach the popular destination for peas. So the provincial government is providing up to $500,000 from the […] Read more

From the frying pan into the pump could be the new slogan for the first company in North America to make diesel fuel from canola oil. The pilot plant at Foam Lake, in east-central Saskatchewan, is primed to produce its first batch of the biofuel early this spring. Zenneth Faye, an adviser to Milligan Biotech […] Read more

The Canadian Wheat Board’s pledge to consider an earlier contract deadline for winter wheat is proof the organization is serious about winter cereals, said Saskatchewan Winter Cereal Growers director Lee Moats. “It shows the Canadian Wheat Board is serious enough about winter wheat to handle it in a serious way,” Moats said in an interview […] Read more

Getting the public to understand the difference between animal rights and animal welfare is the first step in fighting the growing and often misleading animal rights movement, according to a Montreal consultant. Alan Herscovici, author of Second Nature: The Animal Rights Controversy, suggests an underlying contradiction of the animal rights movement in North America and […] Read more

Farmers for Justice activists Dan Creighton and Gerald Blerot have been permanently banned from acting as legal counsel for border-running farmers in Manitoba courtrooms. A Court of Queens Bench justice granted the injunction Jan. 7, prohibiting Creighton or Blerot from acting as counsel in any Manitoba proceeding. Deborah McCawley, who initiated the injunction on behalf […] Read more