Monsanto appointments Monsanto Canada has announced several new appointments in its Western Trait and Seed business. Norm Sissons will take over as western trait and seed commercial lead. In this role, he will focus on sales, marketing, licensing, technology development and crop teams within Monsanto’s Canadian canola business. He will also assume a position on […] Read more
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Strahl task force pushes ahead
The Canadian Wheat Board will decide this week whether to take part in CWB minister Chuck Strahl’s task force charged with figuring out the details of dismantling the board’s single desk. The 15 directors must make a difficult choice between two options. The wheat board could join the task force, on the premise that being […] Read more
Stock Sales
Oct. 8: Longmuir Family Quarter Horse production sale, Empress, Alta., 403-565-3858 Oct. 14: Belarian Arabian Horses production sale, Turner Valley, Alta., 403-933-4577 Oct. 18: Handford Red Angus female dispersal sale, Tisdale, Sask., 306-873-5677 Oct. 21: Pick O’ The West Blonde d’Aquitaine production sale, Olds, Alta., 403-549-2371 or 705-295-6208
Future of pork plant questioned
Hog industry analysts say a $50 million expansion to Maple Leaf’s Brandon plant spells the end to the company’s proposed $110 million slaughter facility in Saskatoon. Florian Possberg, chief executive officer of Big Sky Farms Inc., one of Canada’s largest hog production operations, said in an environment where the appreciating Canadian dollar is squeezing the […] Read more
Coming Events
Sept. 23: South East Saskatchewan Reining Horse Association reining jackpot, Coalfields Equine Center, Bienfait, Sask. (Rhonda, 306-388-2253) Sept. 23: Harvest Moon Fiddle Festival, AgriCentre, Radway, Alta. (Joanie, 780-942-2937) Sept. 28: Climate Action Network and Saskatchewan Environmental Society workshop, Grace Westminster Church, Saskatoon (Sask Environmental Society, 306-665-1915) Sept. 29-30: Trade show, Unity, Sask. (Audrey, 306-228-3040) Sept. […] Read more
CFA defends staffer’s work with Liberals
Senior Conservative MPs including agriculture minister Chuck Strahl said last week Canada’s largest farm lobby group risks undermining its credibility by allowing a senior staff member to help the opposition Liberal party draft an agriculture policy plan. Kieran Green, communications co-ordinator for the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, was a member of a Liberal party task […] Read more
Ag Notes
Volunteers recognized Oct. 18 is the nomination deadline for this year’s Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal. The medal is open to current or former long-term residents of Saskatchewan, with the exception of presently serving members of Parliament and the provincial legislature and the judiciary. Posthumous nominations are not accepted. Recipients receive their medals in a spring ceremony […] Read more
Horse dentist vows to carry on
Pat Ryan, Saskatchewan’s first trained equine dentist, said she intends to continue her work despite being convicted of practising veterinary medicine without a licence. The Saskatoon woman said she was only guilty of administering a restricted drug to calm a horse and reduce its pain while she attempted to remove its wolf teeth. Ryan said […] Read more
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Report says Liberals ignore farm issues at their peril
A Liberal party task force report says the party has lost its political connection to agriculture and must change its policies, structures and priorities if it is to reconnect and win seats in a part of the country rich in parliamentary seats but now largely conceded to the Conservatives. And it says there is a […] Read more
