STARS Air Ambulance receives donation
Money raised at last year’s Canadian Western Agribition has been donated to STARS Air Ambulance in Regina.
The service recently received $30,125 during a cheque presentation involving Canadian Western Agribition, the Canadian Bison Association and Bouchard Livestock.
Funding to produce water buffalo milk
A Quebec company will receive $300,000 in federal and provincial funding to produce and process water buffalo milk in Quebec.
Elevages Buffalo Maciocia, located in the Richelieu region, has the province’s only water buffalo dairy farm. It is working with Fromagerie Polyethnique to develop products for the North American market.
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Agriculture ministers commit to enhancing competitiveness
Canadian ag ministers said they want to ensure farmers, ranchers and processors are competitive through ongoing regulatory reform and business risk management programs that work.
The first steps include processing milk and selling products such as cheese and yogurt.
Investing $7 million into crop research
Forty-six crop-related research projects will receive $7 million in federal and provincial funding in Saskatchewan to improve yields through disease control, weed management, herbicide tolerance and new technologies.
Projects being funded this year include:
- The performance of direct-cut harvest systems in canola
- Improving nitrogen fixation of peas
- Improving disease resistance in wheat
- How residue from soybeans contributes to nutrition and yield in cereal crops the following year
- Identifying new mustard varieties with improved yields
- Honeybee health and the management of varroa mites
- The use of lentil bran as a food ingredient
- Weed control practices
For more information, visit www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/ADF.
Manitoba canola growers elect board members
Four members have joined the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s board of directors: Larry Bohdanovich of Grandview, Brian Chorney of East Selkirk, Charles Fossay of Starbuck and Ed Rempel of Starbuck.
The association mailed 8,921 ballots, and 985 were counted in the tabulation.
Producers could rank the candidates in order of preference. Candidates needed to attract more than 50 percent of the active votes to win one of the positions.
Association members elect four directors every two years to represent them for a four year term.
