Saskatchewan pulse processor AGT Foods and Ingredients is one of two Saskatchewan companies that will share in more than $800,000 in government grants furnished through the Saskatchewan Lean Improvements to Manufacturing (SLIM) program. Federal and provincial government officials announced in Regina Sept. 29 that AGT will receive $500,000 in SLIM funding to improve polishing, bagging […] Read more
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Soap maker focuses on natural ingredients
FAIRVIEW, Alta. — A Jersey milk cow gave her name to Cheryl Bieda’s business and the arrangement has worked out as smooth as cream — in more ways than one. Misty is the cow, and Misty Meadows Soap is the business, which involves the making and selling of soaps, creams, balms and other products. Bieda […] Read more
Biomass co-op seeks investment, crop residue commitment
SARNIA, Ont. — Plans are moving forward to build a dextrose plant in Sarnia that would take as much as 75,000 tonnes of corn stover and wheat. According to a joint release from the Cellulosic Sugar Producers Co-operative, Comet Biorefining and Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, crop residues from 55,000 acres of farmland within 100 kilometres of […] Read more
Pea processing facility planned for Moose Jaw
A German company plans to build a $100 million green pea processing plant in Moose Jaw, Sask. Canadian Protein Innovation has a conditional offer to buy 100 acres of land in the southeastern corner of the city and intends to begin construction in the summer of 2017. “It’s a facility that will process green peas […] Read more
Straw to paper idea survives
Woody Harrelson’s dream of turning western Canadian straw into paper is still a possibility. The Hollywood actor and former star of Cheers has been the primary investor in a company called Prairie Paper Inc. for more than six years. Since 2010, Harrelson and his partners, including former Manitoba Finance Minister Clayton Manness, have been touting […] Read more
Grow it, spin it, wear it
BLUCHER, Sask. — The craft of spinning animal fibre into winter woolies started small for Terra Dionne when a friend offered her his Angora rabbits in trade. “I started with one for two cases of beer. He only asked for one (case),” she joked. The rabbits are gone, but today her 80 acre property houses […] Read more
VIDEO: New organic snack guilt-free
The peas had cooled down enough from the baking process the previous day and were now being packaged by University of Saskatchewan Food Centre by staff. They wear hairnets and white coats with red collars that allow access to the facility’s organic areas. Allen Zak, chief executive officer of Zak Organics, made a 300- kilometre […] Read more
Family business offers unique rewards
WOLF CREEK, Sask. — When Robin Exner and Barb Price were staff members at Circle Square Ranch in the early 1990s, they could never have imagined that they would still be at the same camp 25 years later. However, after their courtship and marriage, followed by the birth of their first child, the Saskatchewan couple […] Read more
Excess hay leads to exports
AYER’S CLIFF, Que. — Extra hay and plenty of labour were crucial to the Bouffard family’s entry into the export business. Alain and Pauline Bouffard’s 12 children gave them a built-in work force on the family dairy farm, while a year with extra hay started their foray into marketing. What started locally as a way […] Read more
