Infield separator allows crops to be sorted before leaving the field to simplify both on-farm storage and sales
MIDALE, Sask. — The long winter’s work of separating mixed crops is getting easier on Rosengren Farms. Colin Rosengren has been intercropping for 20 years and staff used to spend months cleaning and separating grain after harvest. So, he designed and built an infield separating system to do exactly what it says: separate each crop […] Read moreTag Archives Avena Foods
Pollinator strips experiment underway
Customers of Regina-based Avena Foods see how their ingredients are grown on south Saskatchewan farms
GRIFFIN, Sask. — Organic farmer Shannon Knibbs took a leap of faith this year. She seeded nine quarters to intercrops and tried a pollinator strip. The five-acre pollinator strip is supported by Once Upon a Farm, an American organic company in which actress Jennifer Garner is involved that produces, among other things, oat bars and […] Read more
New CEO hired at Avena Foods
Wayne Arsenault has been named the new chief executive officer of Avena Foods Ltd. He replaces Gord Flaten. Arsenault became the youngest plant manager in the Coca-Cola Enterprises system at the age of 29, running the company’s Toronto plant. He then became general manager at Molson Canada in Vancouver and later worked in a number […] Read more
