Ag program funding
Residual funding is available from the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Saskatchewan program until July 14. Adjudication is scheduled for Sept. 30.
The $240 million, five-year initiative was designed to develop new opportunities in Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector.
Potential applicants are advised to first contact Advancing Canadian Agriculture to determine their eligibility in the program.
For more information, contact ACS executive director Blair Goldade at goldadeb@agcouncil.ca, or 306-975-6922.
Manitoba launches beaver control program
Manitoba Agriculture is providing $1 million over four years to help prevent overland flooding and other damage to agricultural lands caused by nuisance beavers, including crop loss and erosion.
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The program will also educate farmers and other stakeholders about humane removal methods.
Beavers cause significant damage to farmland, private property and municipal infrastructure every year.
The Farmland Beaver Damage Control Program will include workshops on humane trapping techniques and non-lethal removal methods, a fact sheet detailing additional tools to manage beaver populations and assistance for non-lethal management techniques.
Some of these devices include beaver deceivers and pond levelers, which maintain water flow but reduce the sound of running water from the mouth of a culvert or the surface of a dam.
Program details will be available by early summer.
Helmet safety campaign
The Saskatchewan All-Terrain Vehicle Association is launching a province-wide helmet safety campaign that will run throughout the summer and fall.
The campaign is intended to combat a growing trend in ATV injuries and fatalities.
Eight people were killed and 47 injured in ATV accidents last year. It was the highest mortality rate and second highest injury rate in one year since 2000. More than half of the deceased victims were not wearing helmets.
Fifty people have been killed and 442 injured while riding an ATV since 2000.
A recent study shows wearing a helmet reduces the risk of death by 42 percent and of suffering a head injury by 64 percent.
It also found that head and spinal cord injuries are among the most common injuries incurred by ATV riders.
About 8,000 quad style and side-by-side ATVs are sold in the province annually for recreational and on-farm use.
For more information, contact John Meed at 855-297-2882 (office), 306-541-8427 (cell) or info@satva.camail to prediger@benchmarkpr.ca.
