Pesticide collection; Holstein winner; FCC chair; Genome director; Crop input centre
Pesticide collection
Farmers in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River region will be able to dispose of obsolete or unwanted pesticides later this month.
The pesticide industry and government are sponsoring the CleanFarms collection program, which gives farmers a chance to safely dispose of unwanted or outdated agricultural chemicals.
It is free to farmers and takes place Aug. 24-28 with drop-off locations at Viterra retail facilities in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.
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CropLife Canada president Lorne Hepworth said the program has removed more than 2.5 million kilograms of unwanted pesticides in Canada since 1998.
Products will be accepted at 1-684 213 Road in Dawson Creek, B.C., and 9704 78th Street in Fort St. John, B.C.
The program will accept only agricultural herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides.
Holstein winner
Holstein Canada and Semex Alliance recently announced that Sandy Cole of Middle Musquodoboit, N.S., has been chosen to represent Canada in the 2010 Canada-Australia Young Adult Exchange program.
Cole is a 2006 graduate of Olds College in Alberta with a diploma in agriculture. Since 2006, he has been employed full time on the family farm.
Cole and his father, Dean, and uncle, David, milk 60 cows.
Over the years, he has shown dairy cattle at the county and regional levels. As a member of the Central Nova Scotia Holstein Club, he helped operate a clipping, showing and judging workshop, and has also worked at shows and conventions for a number of breeders including Cobequid, Bernardale and T & L Cattle Company.
FCC chair
Gill O. Shaw has been reappointed chair of Farm Credit Canada’s board of directors.
Shaw has held the position since 2006 and recently agreed to stay on for another three-year term.
Genome director
Karen Chad has been appointed to Genome Prairie’s board of directors.
She is the acting vice-president of research and a kinesiology professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
Chad provides overall leadership for strategic research development at the U of S, spearheading development of policies and programs designed to promote research, scholarly and artistic work, build partnerships, and ensure that all levels of government are aware of U of S research interests.
She sits on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and has chaired or overseen more than 100 boards, committees, research programs and teams. Honours include a 2004 international award for innovation in research and the 2007 National Leadership Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
With a PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia, she is a faculty member in the U of S College of Kinesiology, where she has earned five teaching awards including the 2005 U of S Master Teacher Award.
Genome Prairie leads large-scale genomics and proteomics research projects in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. With its national and international partners, Genome Prairie has supported nearly $188 million worth of research activity in plant, animal and human genomics, bioinformatics, instrumentation development and bioethics since 2000.
Crop input centre
Gardiner Dam Terminal Joint Venture plans to build a full-service crop input centre in Tullis, Sask.
Construction will begin in August and is expected to be operating by late fall. The facility will be financed through a combination of cash from operations and term debt from commercial lenders.
Gardiner Dam Terminal Joint Venture is operated by Gardiner Dam Terminal and Viterra.
