Money to disabled
The RBC Financial Group has donated $5,000 to Manitoba Farmers With Disabilities, bringing RBC’s total contributions to $25,000 over the past five years.
The group uses a variety of educational programs to promote its farm safety message to people involved directly and indirectly with agriculture.
For more information, visit www.fwdmanitoba.com.
Animal care speakers
Canada’s Farm Animal Care Councils are launching a new speakers’
bureau program designed to increase awareness and understanding of farm animal welfare issues.
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The Farm Animal Welfare Speakers Bureau will make funding available to help groups across Canada access qualified speakers for conferences and seminars on topics related to farm animal welfare and responsible animal management.
The program is part of a nation-wide partnership. Adele Buettner of the Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan will co-ordinate the speaker’s bureau.
For more information, contact a provincial organization, call Adele Buettner at 306-249-3227 or visit www.livestockwelfare.com.
Beef centre vice-president
The Western Beef Development Centre has hired Paul Jefferson as vice-president of operations.
Jefferson was previously a research scientist at Agriculture Canada’s Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre in Swift Current, Sask. He has a bachelor’s degree in crop science from Ontario’s University of Guelph, a master’s degree in plant breeding and genetics from the University of Guelph and a PhD in range science from Utah State University.
Jefferson has 25 years experience in forage crop research and has published extensively in the fields of forage agronomy, physiology and plant breeding.
The WBDC has also hired a farm supervisor to oversee the operations at the research farm in Lanigan, Sask. George Widdifield was formerly the grazing reserve supervisor at the Buffalo-Atlee community pasture near Jenner, Alta. He brings 25 years of pasture and herd management experience to the centre.
Honey promotion
The Canadian Honey Council has been promised $440,000 in federal funding.
The money will be used to promote the Canadian honeybee industry and support Canadian Honey Council initiatives, such as a communications plan and awareness, policy development and research projects.
