Agribition posts profit

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Published: April 12, 2013

Canadian Western Agribition reported profit of $591,750 for 2012, up more than $200,000.

Attendance came in at 122,300 and livestock sales totaled $2.5 million.

The figures were released at the annual general meeting in Regina today.

Chief executive officer Marty Seymour noted that the show’s economic impact grew 30 percent to $37 million last year.

“The show is growing and we don’t plan to stop,” he said.

The show also received a bequest today of $25,000 for its scholarship fund. Barry Andrew was a founder of the show and a past-president who died last Dec. 27 at age 84.

He left the bequest in his estate because he loved the show, said his son, Reed, and because he wanted young people to continue to succeed in agriculture.

The Barry Andrew Family Scholarship will provide $1,500 each year to a student studying agriculture at a post-secondary institution.

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Karen Briere

Karen Briere

Karen Briere grew up in Canora, Sask. where her family had a grain and cattle operation. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Regina and has spent more than 30 years covering agriculture from the Western Producer’s Regina bureau.

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