Agriculture

The Arcola-Kisbey Beef Club has been a cornerstone in the southeast for nearly 100 years. The club was formed in the early 1930s as a hog club and in 1939 changed to the Arcola-Kisbey Beef Club.

The farm was calling him back. Jeff Chambers has been farming since 1989 and that doesn’t count the years he spent helping out as a young teenager.

Canadian Western Agribition's Next Gen Agriculture Mentorship Program welcomed the newest group of eight young agriculture leaders.

Due to COVID-19, the 4-H year ended a lot differently. Record books were judged by Laine Goertz Kaeding of Regina. In cloverbuds, Vanessa Cowan was first, Mardi Cowan was second and Arabella Buchanan came in third.

The next 12 months will be an interesting time, to say the least, for Arcola’s Chris Lees, who is the chairperson of the board for the Canadian Western Agribition (CWA).

The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is pleased to announce the election of Arnold Balicki as the new chairman of the board of directors. His election comes as the SCA held their AGM at the 2020 Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference in Saskatoon.

The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) has committed $1.9 million to support wheat research projects funded under the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) in 2019.

Through a continuing co-funding partnership with the Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, and other producer commodity groups, Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) announced over $2.

The future of seed development is set to become more efficient thanks to PlotVision, a new image analysis software product from the University of Saskatchewan’s Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre (P2IRC).

To help protect Canada’s cattle and bison and maintain the country’s bovine tuberculosis-free status, scientists from University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) and Parks Cana