Local history for Glaslyn, Sask. area wanted. Deadline is Dec. 31, 2003. Contact: Glaslyn & District Historical Society, General Delivery, Glaslyn, Sask. S0M 0Y0, 306-342-2169, e-mail: villageofglaslyn@sasktel.net, fax: 306-342-4965. Town of Ponteix and the R.M. of Auvergne centennial celebration July 15-17, 2005. Please contact: Audrey, 306-625-3222. Rainbows Mean Hope – Chronicles of Pine Lake tornado. […] Read more
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Grain companies contest Naber Seed receivership
While most of the dust has settled in the Naber Seed case, a group of grain companies and Naber’s former bank are still kicking up a storm. They are in a legal dispute over proceeds from the sale of yellow peas amounting to approximately $500,000 US. As part of that court battle, the grain companies, […] Read more
Denmark digests hog manure pile
SHAKESPEARE, Ont. – More than a third of Denmark’s 3,000 hog farmers have joined a business trend that industry leaders see as an environmentally friendly and perhaps profitable way to deal with manure. They have invested in biogas plants that take raw manure, allow it to ferment for several weeks in an anaerobic digestion tank […] Read more
Stock Sales
Nov. 27: Agribition Charolais Diva sale, Regina, 306-933-4200 Dec. 1: L4 Ranches Red Angus bull sale, Brooks, Alta., 1-866-644-3917 Dec. 3: Brost Land & Cattle Hereford sale, Medicine Hat, Alta., 306-933-4200 Dec. 3: Chinook Classic Angus sale, Lethbridge, 403-625-2130 Dec. 4: No Surprises commercial female sale, Fort Macleod, Alta., 403-627-5676 Dec. 5: Sterling Collection Charolais […] Read more
Ont. gov’t gets say in Schmeiser appeal
The government of Ontario is weighing in on the legal dispute between Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto Canada Inc. It is one of a number of groups granted intervener status in the appeal, which is scheduled to be tried in front of the Supreme Court of Canada on Jan. 20, 2004. Interveners provide written or oral […] Read more
Sheep relate stress in vocal call
Mark Feinstein, a teacher at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, has found a method of measuring stress in sheep through recording and analyzing their vocal behaviour. To farmers, agronomists and animal welfare experts, stressed sheep are a serious subject, with concerns ranging from humane treatment to the economic impacts of reduced reproductive rates. Feinstein, whose past […] Read more
Alta. crop insurance claims down sharply
Crop insurance claims in Alberta are a fraction of what they were in 2002. Merle Jacobson, senior manager of insurance operations at Agriculture Financial Services Corp., said the company will pay producers $170 million on 12,000 claims. That compares to $800 million on 30,000 claims in 2002, a year in which many farmers had complete […] Read more
Alta. couple digs deep for success
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – When Paulette and Earl Langenecker moved from Teepee Creek to Grande Prairie, they took the usual boxes of clothes, books and toys. But they also dug up and moved 4,500 saskatoon bushes. The northern Alberta farm couple didn’t feel the new buyer was offering enough for their farmland so they took […] Read more
Farmers union douses ethanol flame
What looks to many like a good idea on paper is really a bogus venture in economic and energy diversification, said speakers at the National Farmers Union 34th annual convention Nov. 22 in Saskatoon. Tadeusz Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told NFU delegates that ethanol production would be one big […] Read more
Profit can be made in cull cows
LANIGAN, Sask. – Keeping the older cow and selling the heifer as a feeder may be the best plan for 2003, but careful planning is necessary if it is going to be profitable. Producers across Canada would normally have expected to receive good money for their cull cows this fall as they fed a strong […] Read more
