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VIDEO: Sask. producers invited to participate in MARS mission

Robert Arnason

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Published: July 18, 2024

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SaskSoil's Tamara McLoughlin talks to Western Producer reporter Robert Arnason about SaskSoil's Marginal Areas Rehabilitation in Saskatchewan (MARS) program at the Ag in Motion farm show. | Screencap by Greg Berg

Tamara McLoughlin is heading SaskSoil’s MARS mission.

Not to be confused with the red planet, this mission is inviting Saskatchewan producers to participate in their Marginal Areas Rehabilitation in Saskatchewan (MARS) program.

McLoughlin spoke to the Western Producer’s Robert Arnason about SaskSoil’s MARS mission at Ag in Motion.

Robert Arnason is a reporter with The Western Producer and Glacier Farm Media. Since 2008, he has authored nearly 5,000 articles on anything and everything related to Canadian agriculture. He didn’t grow up on a farm, but Robert spent hundreds of days on his uncle’s cattle and grain farm in Manitoba. Robert started his journalism career in Winnipeg as a freelancer, then worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Nipawin, Saskatchewan and Fernie, BC. Robert has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in LSJF – Long Suffering Jets’ Fan.