Cows and CNIB
Heartland Livestock Services is involved in a promotion to help raise money for the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.
On April 2, an auction is scheduled at the Moose Jaw Heartland Services auction market, and ranchers and farmers are asked to make donations of livestock. Transport of animals can be arranged at no charge. All proceeds from auction of this livestock will go to the CNIB.
Harold Grace, a CNIB director, said 14 animals have already been donated.
Those wishing more information can call Grace in Regina at 306-525-2571, or Ken Lidberg at Heartland in Moose Jaw at 306-692-2385.
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No double fees
Duplicate fees for livestock brand inspections in Alberta and British Columbia have been eliminated.
The two provincial agriculture ministers, Walter Paszkowski and David Zirnhelt, agreed in January that a single inspection of cattle brands, rather than one in each province, would be sufficient to allow movement of cattle between B.C. and Alberta.
Western premiers agreed at their 1993 conference that double inspection fees acted as a trade barrier and should be eliminated.
Alberta signed an agreement with Saskatchewan in July 1995 to abolish double fees. Manitoba doesn’t inspect livestock brands.
Now cattle shipped directly for sale to another western province will incur only one inspection fee in the province of origin.
Over the last three years, an average of 139,700 animals were inspected annually before shipments could cross the B.C.-Alberta border.
In 1994, Alberta producers shipped approximately 7,000 cattle to B.C.
CGC appointment
Errol Lewis of Winnipeg has been appointed an assistant commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission. He will work in the Manitoba region.
Lewis is former chief of the statistics section of Manitoba Agriculture.
