Novel food products use pulses
The federal government is investing $950,000 in pulse research at the Canadian International Grains Institute to help identify new uses for legumes.
The money will help develop new food products from roller-milled pulse flour.
Award recognizes pork innovation
Two new hog inventions won the F. X. Aherne Prize for innovative pork production during the Banff Pork Seminar held Jan. 20-22 in Banff, Alta.
Lyle and Maaike Campbell of Birnam Pork near Arkona, Ont., won for their transportable and washable piglet weigh scale.
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Greg Feenstra and Dave Uttecht of Heartland Pork in Alpena, South Dakota, won for their EZ Tub hog handling system, which reduces stress on animals and people during loading.
The award is named after the late Frank Aherne, a professor of swine nutrition and production at the University of Alberta.
Livestock marketers select new executive
The Livestock Marketers of Saskatchewan has a new board of directors.
New to the board are Tyler Cronkhite of the Cowtown Livestock Exchange, Pat Tellier of Saskatoon Livestock Services and Ryan Rutledge of Assiniboia Livestock Auction.
Stewart Stone from Heartland Livestock Services, Roy Rutledge of Assiniboia Livestock Auction and Rhett Parks of Whitewood Livestock Sales were re-elected.
Stone was elected as president.
New initiatives this year include directors presenting topics surrounding livestock marketing in classes at the University of Saskatchewan’s agriculture college.
Women in business award presented
Marya Pettigrew, executive director of the regional business accelerator in Lloydminster, won silver in this year’s Stevie Award for Women in Business.
The accelerator works with business owners and entrepreneurs to develop support and mentorship.
Lakeland College supports the accelerator through a renewable energy applied research focus called Flexation and works with Pettigrew to provide research and other services to local businesses.
Calgary authors win cookbook award
Authors Pat Inglis and Linda Whitworth of Calgary are Canadian winners for the best historical recipes book in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
Their book, Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain (TouchWood, 2014), will continue on to the Gourmand Best in the World competition with submissions from more than 150 countries. International winners will be announced June 9 in Yantai, China.
For more information, visit www.cookbookfair.com.
Bird counting encouraged
The 18th annual Great Backyard Bird Count will take place Feb. 13-16.
People from around the world can count birds for at least 15 minutes on one or more days and enter their sightings at www.BirdCount.org. The information helps track changes in bird populations on a worldwide scale.
Birdwatchers from 135 countries took part in last year’s count and documented 4,300 species on more than 144,000 bird checklists.
