SASKATOON — Saskatchewan and Ottawa today announced $6.9 million in livestock and forage-related research funding for 2025.
Provincial agriculture minister Daryl Harrison told the Saskatchewan Beef Industry conference that funding from industry partners will push that to $7.2 million.
The money flows through the Agriculture Development Fund.
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“Innovation is the key to staying competitive and allowing Saskatchewan to remain a global leader when it comes to new and best practices in agriculture,” Harrison said.
“We continue to support this and help Saskatchewan’s livestock producers to keep doing what they do best through investments of this nature, which enables the kind of world-class scientific work that constantly moves the industry forward.”
The projects are chosen through a competitive process and this year include topics such as genomics, the impact of prescribed fire in rangelands and enhancing capacity to research pathogens and manufacture vaccines and therapeutics to control infectious disease.
The other funding partners are the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, the Saskatchewan Forage Seed Development Commission, SaskPork and the Western Dairy Research Collaboration (BC Dairy, Alberta Milk, SaskMilk and Dairy Farmers of Manitoba).
“Investment in research is critical for our industry,” Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association chair Keith Day said.
“We appreciate both levels of government recognizing its value and investing in our research priorities, which focused on animal health and forage production this year.”
Federal funding comes through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
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