“These folks all have had significant effects on agriculture in this province and beyond,” said Reed Andrew after the latest inductees to the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame were announced.
Andrew, a producer from the Regina area, is the president of the organization and said all four brought significant value to the industry and deserved the recognition.
Grant Devine, Rick Holm, Bill Jameson and Bob Tyler will formally be inducted on April 9, along with last year’s crew who didn’t have a ceremony due to COVID-19 group event restrictions.
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Devine, a farmer, former premier, agriculture minister, economist and University of Saskatchewan professor became a member of the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2015.
“You know, the biggest thing that most of us can do in this industry is to find ways to add value to production here at home on the Prairies,” he said after the announcement during the Crop Producer Show at Prairieland Exhibition Park in Saskatoon in January where he was crediting with doing that.
Also given credit for his efforts to add value to Saskatchewan farm production was University of Saskatchewan professor Bob Tyler. Tyler said he saw the opportunities related to pulse crops early on in his 40-year career.
“We grow them here. We ship them to another country to have to them sorted and split. Then we ship them somewhere else for packaging. Then we bring them home to Canada to consume. It just didn’t make sense,” said Tyler at the event.
Tyler is head of animal and poultry science at the U of S and has chaired Ag-West Bio and the Agri-Food Council and worked to develop Protein Industries Canada.
Also from the U of S is Rick Holm, the former director of the Crop Development Centre and a well-known agrologist who researched and delivered through his extension work weed-control strategies to producers for many years. He assisted in the development of Clearfield crop commercialization and expanded the CDC’s pulse lab, as well as teaching at the college.
Bill Jameson, a founder of Moose Jaw’s JGL Livestock, is known across North America in the cattle industry for innovation in livestock marketing. Jameson has worked to develop the next generations of agricultural leaders in the province, including the JGL Legacy Scholarship. He has sat as the president of the Saskatchewan Cattle Feeders’ Association and the provincial cattlemen’s association.
