Food training program; Sask. Enterprise teams; New hall of fame member
Food training program
The University of Saskatchewan’s agriculture college is offering a new course for professional food managers.
The Food Professionals Management Program was designed with the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan and food industry consultants. It teaches management skills to executives, managers and representatives of retailers, food processors, food service organizations and other agribusinesses.
The program will be taught over four months with two days of training and hands-on exercises devoted to each of the four modules.
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Enrolment in the program will be limited to 24. It will run from Jan. 14 to April 16.
For more information, visit www.agcouncil.ca or phone Lesley Dirkson at 306-975-6847.
Sask. Enterprise teams
Saskatchewan Enterprise has announced the members of 18 sector teams that will work with government to develop business-friendly policies and promote economic growth in the province.
Members of the agriculture team include farmer Gerrid Gust as chair, Dwayne Anderson of Fosston, Sask., Everette Bear of the Muskoday First Nation, Maurice Berry of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Cherilyn Jolly-Nagel of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers, beef rancher Gary Jones of Crane Valley, Kenton Possberg of Possberg Grain Farms Inc., David Sefton of the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission and Doug Steele of Paterson Grain Terminal.
Members of the agri-value team include chair Tim Wiens of O & T Farms, Murad Al-katib of Saskan Pulse Trading, Chanetelle Donahue of Prairie Malt, Gene Dupuis of Prairie Meats, Kelly Edigar of Drake Meats, Terry Helary of Northern Lights and Kitsaki Meats, Paul Rogers of Saskatchewan Meat Processors and SJ Irvine Fine Foods, Darryl Schneider of the Saskatchewan Food Processors Association and Tom Steve of Viterra.
Other sector teams include alternative energies and environmental industries, arts and culture, biofuel and bioproducts, commercialization and research and development services, construction and land development, co-operatives, energy, financial services, forestry, home building, information technology, life sciences and biotechnology, manufacturing, minerals, tourism and hospitality and transportation and logistics.
For more information, visit www.ei.gov.sk.ca/Enterprise-Saskatchewan.
New hall of fame member
Eugene Legge, chair of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada, has been inducted into the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame.
Legge has promoted stewardship practices in Atlantic Canada and at a national level by serving with many organizations and committees.
He has served as past-president of the Newfoundland Federation of Agriculture, vice-chair of the Newfoundland Chicken Marketing Board and director and alternate for Chicken Farmers of Canada and has served as Soil Conservation Council of Canada chair since 2004. Legge runs ChrisDarMarFarms, near Harbour Main, Nfld.
More information on the Soil Conservation Council of Canada is available at www.soilcc.ca.
