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Trapping industry still going strong Courtesy of Preeceville Progress Dam Beaver Trapping Supplies is a family business incorporated in 2012 and based out of Rhein.

Together Ian, Cory and Calin Bugera have many years of trapping experiences that helps

them to answer all types of questions surrounding the industry. “We have a full range of traps, lures and accessories for the beginner or experienced trapper at our store,” said Ian. The Bugeras also are the exclusive agent in Saskatchewan for Fur Harvesters Auction Inc.

Ian Bugera from Dam Beaver Trapping Supplies, who is the exclusive agent in Saskatchewan for the auction company, picked up the fur in Preeceville on April 7 that will shipped to the Fur Harvesters Auction.

They travel across Saskatchewan twice a year stopping at various locations, picking up furs from trappers that are designated for the auction. “A lot of trappers will just bring in their fur throughout the season to our store where we will keep and ship them to the auction where the trappers get a fair price for their hard work and efforts. Coyote fur still remains a strong market followed by beaver and wolf furs,” he said.

The Town of Preeceville was their first stop on April 7, the first of a two-week pickup schedule that will see them in 50 different locations. The final stop will be on April 16 in Grenfell.

The first pickup was held in January 2020 but COVID-19 pandemic forced a delay in the original pickup dates and in auction dates. The pickup dates are usually held in January and then

in April.

“We work with the trappers to help them get their products to market and aid them with any and all of their trapping needs. The trapping industry is the oldest industry around and has been faced with many challenges over the years but has remained a strong industry steeped in tradition.

Trapping is a natural way of helping control populations and preserving and promoting a healthy environment,” said Ian. Dam Beaver Trapping Supplies are also sponsors of The Real Deal with Marc episodes on Wild TV. They sell and ship trapping supplies all across Canada for the beginner to the experienced trapper. They offer advice and “the right tools you need to catch your prey, as we understand the excitement of trapping.”

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Taylor Sliva, left, of Preeceville was one of the many local trappers who brought in the furs that he trapped during the trapping season to be shipped to the Fur Harvesters Auction. Ian Bugera from Dam Beaver Trapping Supplies is the exclusive agent in Saskatchewan for the auction company, and picked up the furs on April 7. people participate in Canada’s 300-year-old fur trade industry. The trapping industry in Saskatchewan includes more than 4,500 registered trappers and generates between $1.5 and $6 million every year, stated the Government of Saskatchewan website.

Fur species are a renewable resource and many trappers depend on raw fur sales to supplement their annual income. Proper conservation and humane use will ensure the long-term sustainability of the resource and the trapping industry.

Kamsack Anglers report an excellent ice fishing season Courtesy of Canora Courier As we collectively say farewell to winter in Kamsack, a number of local anglers are summing it up with some great fish stories. Allan Wonitowy and Leanne

Green are two enthusiasts from Kamsack who say fishing is a pretty big deal in their lives.

During the 2020-21 ice fishing season, Wonitowy caught three Master Angler Tiger Trout – which according to Green, are very hard to

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Vision for Kamsack group home serving persons with disabilities Courtesy of Kamsack Times Kamsack Times readers may remember a story from July 2020 regarding 14 vacant lots located on the north east side of town, near the new water tower. An expression of interest was issued by the town to field suggestions for best use of the space.

Some ideas were floated – among them was a group of energy efficient tiny homes. Although a number of developers expressed a desire to design and build, none of the companies were willing to run the operation beyond the construction phase.

Enter local teacher and town councillor, Darren Kitsch. With a vision that had been brewing for more than ten years with fellow teacher and councillor Claire Bishop, the pair saw an opportunity to pitch their concept of a group home for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Group homes are staffed to provide daily training and vocational programs, living accommodations, and supportive independent living for adults with intellectual disabilities.

Typically, they are located in residential neighbourhoods throughout the province.

“I’ve spent many years working with students from grade K-12 and I have especially enjoyed working with students who have special needs,” said Kitsch.

“I’ve also had the opportunity of getting to know these students through teaching private music lessons and through other activities in our town. And once these kids become adults, we have identified a lack of options for independent living as well as vocational training and life skills programming in Kamsack.”

Garden Valley Ventures Inc. is a newly formed non-profit organization that would provide direct service programming and housing to persons with cognitive and physical disabilities in the Kamsack area.

Kitsch envisioned The Garden Valley Place – Group Home on the aforementioned vacant lots.

Kitsch says the first phase of this Kamsack project would be to create a large support services building that could house the group home programming, with some on-site living accommodations to maximize funding and service delivery. Future building of additional independent homes on site would serve tenants with complex needs who may require supports to secure and maintain housing and independent living. Kitsch suggests these additional buildings could be smaller single residences, or larger homes that would have two to three bedrooms with shared kitchen/living quarters.

“These homes/community will provide a safe and stable living

environment, along with the supports the residents require to participate more fully in life and build a better future,” offered Kitsch.

Kitsch explained that Garden Valley Ventures Inc. would offer day programming for its tenants, as well as residents of Kamsack who choose to live with family. This programming would include life skills, social, recreation and work experience programming.

Garden Valley Ventures Inc. has recently taken over the operation of the Sparty’s Thrift Store in Kamsack to facilitate job training and work skills as part of programming through the store.

“The local thrift store will allow us to implement programming that offers work experience and life skills training,” explained Kitsch.

“Those who participate will learn how to process donations, stock shelves, and interact with customers in a retail setting.

We feel this opportunity could lead to increased confidence, a sense of community, and a sense of life purpose for participants.”

“Not only would a project like this address a need for housing for those with disabilities, it also has the potential to stimulate our local economy,” asserted Kitsch.

“As an example, a group home in Grandview, Man. offers 24-hour care and employs between 30 and 50 people.”

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This design depicts a vision for a group home to be constructed in Kamsack that would offer housing and programming for persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. pants have been identified, Kitsch says funding can be triggered through provincial government programs. Community Living Service Delivery (CLSD) is a branch of the Ministry of Social Services that works with people with intellectual disabilities and helps them access a variety of community-based services. Self-Directed Funding (SDF) is a funding option. According to the government website, it is not a type of service or a program. Rather, it is an option where funding is provided directly to adults with intellectual disabilities so they can have increased choice and control over the supports and services that best suit their needs.

The provincial website states that a person can access SDF for housing supports, day programming, or both.

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ages their own funding with the support of the representative(s) of their choice. With help from these supporters, individuals receiving SDF will identify their needs and develop a person-centred plan that describes how their needs can be met in the community.

Garden Valley Ventures Inc. has recently incorporated as a non-profit organization and announced a board of directors. The team hopes to identify interested parties who would like to take part in the day programming and eventually live in the group home, once constructed.

“This board consists of really talented people who have a heart for serving others in our community,” said Kitsch.

“Together with CLSD, we will be hosting an open house on April 22 at 7:00 p.m. Interested

families who wish to hear more about the project and ask questions can either attend in person at Room 204 at the Crowstand Center or virtually through Zoom.”

Kitsch serves as president, Michelle Irvine as vice president, Claire Bishop as treasurer, Nicola Straub as secretary, and Glenda Tulloch and Rob MacDonald are directors of the board.

Kitsch said details regarding the open house can be found on the Sparty’s Thrift Store Facebook page, and anyone looking to offer support for the project is welcome to contact him or any board member directly.

“We are excited about the opportunity to create a safe caring environment where individuals with disabilities will be able to thrive and have a high quality of life,” shared Kitsch.

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EDITORIAL Protecting the planet can prevent pandemic With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more available, we can breathe a small sigh of relief — through our masks! But we can’t get complacent.

This pandemic isn’t over.

And if we’re not careful, others could be on the horizon.

A coalition of health and conservation organizations is trying to prevent that. It points to evidence that “increasing rates of deforestation and land-use change due to population growth and urbanization — coupled with growing globalization and excess production driven by consumerism” are increasing our vulnerability to “zoonotic” diseases, which spread from other animals to people.

They also note that “large-scale commercial trade in live wild animals, often traveling long distances to crowded food markets, increases the risk of transmission of pathogens to people from those animals.”

This information isn’t new. Most “novel pathogens” to which we haven’t developed immunity are zoonotic, including Ebola, zika, West Nile

virus, SARS, HIV and others. We’ve long known about the possibility of something like COVID19. We should have been better prepared for it or able to prevent it.

We must learn from the current crisis to prevent worse emergencies and prepare for new diseases. The next virus could be deadlier than COVID-19 (as some variants already are). As the coalition points out, outbreaks are increasing and spreading faster in our interconnected world.

“Because of our broken relationship with nature, these events are already happening more frequently: more than 335 emerging infectious disease outbreaks were reported worldwide from 1940 to 2004 — over 50 per decade,” the coalition reports.

In identifying parts of the world where outbreaks are likely to start, the coalition is mapping out solutions, which “will require dialogue and coordinated action between sectors — particularly health and environment, but also agriculture, trade,

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Science Matters food and nutrition, and others.”

Its proposed “threepronged strategy” would include a scientific task force and high-level panel on prevention at the source, a global action fund for pandemic prevention, and global and local public awareness campaigns.

The task force — to be convened by coalition members the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, with scientists worldwide — will “examine what we know and what we must learn to prevent the next global pandemic.” It will inform a panel that includes “high-level representatives from gov-

ernments” to “develop and recommend policies to prevent spillover, and, critically, advocate for adoption of these policies globally and in highrisk countries.”

The coalition also proposes a global action fund to help co-ordinate knowledge, dialogue and action and “support a pipeline of existing prevention solutions to scale up, while also financing the development of new solutions (cuttingedge behavior change approaches, diagnostic platforms, incentives programs, technologies, and data solutions).”

Finally, it proposes global and local public awareness campaigns to prioritize prevention and health-system preparedness.

To prevent pandem-

ics, we must recognize our interconnectedness with nature and protect natural systems that make the planet habitable for humans. Doing so will also help with the climate emergency.

As Amy Vittor from the University of Florida’s division of infectious diseases and global medicine told the Guardian, “Forests — and tropical forests in particular — harbour complex networks of microbes and their wildlife hosts. Degrading these landscapes carries the potential of unleashing these microbes upon our domesticated animals and ourselves.

Therefore, maintaining the integrity of forests serves to not only protect biodiversity and mitigate climate change, but also to contain these complex and potentially dangerous pathogen networks.”

Reducing wildlife trade and reforming livestock practices are also crucial. All require recognizing the rights of Indigenous Peoples worldwide, and incorporating knowledge they’ve gained from living in place for millennia.

These measures are necessary regardless of cost, but a recent study found they’re also sound investments.

Global spending on COVID-19 has already exceeded US$20 trillion, but spending just $27 billion a year over 10 years could substantially reduce the risks of a similar pandemic.

As with the coalition’s recommendations, the study outlines the benefits of early disease detection and control, monitoring wildlife trade and ending China’s wild meat trade, reducing disease spillover from livestock and protecting tropical forests in critical regions.

Our major crises — pandemics, climate disruption and biodiversity loss — all have roots in our lack of recognition of our place in nature. We can and must do better.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at davidsuzuki.org.

Yorkton Kinsmen donates to Canora waterpark

By Tanner Wallace-Scribner Staff Writer The Kinsmen Club of Yorkton surprised a local town with a donation to help them with a massive upcoming project.

The club donated $50,000 to the Town of Canora to replace their current swimming pool.

Aaron Herriges, the director of leisure services with the Town of Canora, said the donation was completely

unexpected.

“I found out a little bit about the support that the Kinsman get from the people of Canora,” he said. “I guess we are a huge supporter, and the $50,000 donation from the Kinsmen is just a

great example of their commitment to giving back to the communities for supporting them.”

Herriges said that the money would be put towards the estimated $2 million swimming pool replacement project.

“We are going to replace the existing poo with a new park on the existing site,” he said.

“We have in the place is a lap pool, which is a four-lane 82-foot long junior Olympic length.

It’s also joined with a leisure pool with a zeroentry entrance. It has splash and sprays features, it’s got a waterslide complex which houses two large waterslides, ones 53 feet long, and one is a 130-foot slide.”

“It’s got a little bit of something for everybody.

The accessibility part of it is really great for people with mobility issues.

We are finally going to have something that people have an easier time getting into, and we will have lots of kids and families,” Herriges continued. “We are going to have some green space, and we are also attaching it to a new pool service building as well.”

Herriges added that the donation is a spark to the project.

From left to right: Yorkton Kinsmen President Barry Novak, Canora Mayor Mike Kwas, Councillors Jacqueline Fetchuck and Brad Gabora, and Aaron Herriges.

“It allows us to budget the project a little bit differently. We are hoping it opens up a lot of eyes around our area to local

businesses and families,” he said. “We are already starting to see some people consider donating; we’ve seen some come in already.

They are showing commitment that they are getting on board with the Kinsmen.”

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Player promotes classic Abalone So, it’s no secret I love abstract strategy games.

One of the most attractive and entertaining is the 1987 release Abalone from designers Michel Lalet, and Laurent Levi.

The game is bestdescribed as sumo wrestling with marbles, and that is rather accurate as players move their marbles attempting to push their opponent’s marbles off the board.

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Abalone had one in place but it has since become defunct. So does Abalone need to re-establish a governing body?

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“Now, it would be like putting the cart before the horse.”

Obviously only a few abstract strategy games have decade’s old, international organizations

While stalemates evolved as players delved into the game in the early years, alternate start positions have kept the game generally interesting.

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By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer It was a great start to a new disc golf season for Yorkton’s Aaron Kienle who threw the first ace of his career last week at Patrick Park Disc Golf Course in the city.

Kienle, who told Yorkton This Week he has been playing for about 10-years, was out for his first round of the year, when his tee-shot on #2 rattled the chains and settled into the basket for the elusive ‘ace’.

“I was using my favourite backhand driver from Kastaplast, the Grym,” he said.

From the ace on, it was a good day for Kienle on the course.

“I parred all the other holes (baskets), so I was a minus-two at the end of the round,” he said adding that was “not bad first round of the year.”

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Moe sees lots of opportunity with irrigation expansion Agriculture boosted in provincial budget

By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Estevan Mercury Regina – One of the cornerstone announcements in the last year for the Saskatchewan agriculture sectors has been the launch of the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Expansion Project by the provincial government.

The April 6 budget was the first provincial budget since that announcement, but so far, the dollar figures are relatively small – just $18.9 million this year for the Westside Expansion Project. But Premier Scott Moe sees a big future, a little further down that water pipeline, as it were.

Asked when will we start seeing big dollars towards that $4 billion project, Moe replied, “The first phase of that project, I believe, is a pegged at about a half a billion dollars. That’s the expansion of the west side, which will open up … acres for irrigation. It is really the start of building that industry, that irrigation industry, and changing even the crops and the value of with the crops that we grow in that area, which ultimately leads to the attraction of different value-added food processors that we currently don’t have here in the province.”

He said that would lead Saskatchewan to then leverage the strength of that industry to expand to the entire west side and then ultimately come down with the lower Qu’Appelle project, providing that important water security to communities like

Moose Jaw and Regina.

That water security isn’t only important, in the food processing industry, but also in other industries, like the steel industry and potash, that use water. Moe said that it would and provide water security for that entire economic package and ultimately for the people of southeastern Saskatchewan.

“What you’re seeing is we’re moving as quickly as we can on this file, ensuring we’re doing our due diligence at every step of the way. But we’ve had the design and architecture engineering firm has been awarded, as we know, to a Saskatchewan firm. And they’re working on some of the design and ultimately, working towards a construction contract where we would start actually moving dirt for that Phase 1 of the project. That’s where we’re into. And moving through Phase 1, you’re going to see that same design and engineering firms start to turn their sights on to Phase 2, as we expect that Phase 1 will have very rapid uptake by the folks that are in that area.”

Moe said it would “most certainly will start to build a very different agriculture industry in certain parts of this province than we have seen in Saskatchewan, over the course of the history of our province, and ultimately, provide that water security for various other industries and municipalities to have for years in the future as well.”

Other ag announcements The 2021-22 provincial budget includes a $23.1

million increase to the Ministry of Agriculture budget which will help the industry grow and ensure Saskatchewan producers are able to continue supplying the world with safe, highquality food, according to a Ministry release.

The $386.9 million agriculture budget represents a six per cent increase from the 202021 budget.

“The importance of a secure, reliable and safe food supply chain is essential for our citizens and for our economy,” Agriculture Minister David Marit said in a release. “The 2021-22 agriculture budget will once again fully fund business risk management programs, provide a record level of peracre coverage under the Crop Insurance Program, continue last year’s record investment in agriculture research, and make important investments in irrigation expansion.”

The agriculture budget includes a $20.6 million increase to business risk management funding, compared to 2020-21. This will provide $265 million to fund a suite of business risk management programs, which are delivered as part of the federal-provincial Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP).

The $150.1 million 2021 Crop Insurance Program includes average coverage of $273 an acre. This is a new record for per-acre coverage under the program and represents an $11.1 million increase from 2020-21. The 2021 Crop Insurance Program featured additional options

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Premier Scott Moe was asked about the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Expansion Project on budget day. for producers seeking to insure their tame hay acres, an increase in Native Forage Establishment Benefit coverage, updates to the base grade for largeseeded Kabuli chickpeas, the introduction of the Commercial Vegetable Pilot Program, and increases to the establishment benefit values for canola, lentils, chickpeas and corn.

This year’s budget also contains an additional $2 million for the Wildlife Damage Compensation Program, which compensates Saskatchewan producers for crop damage and predation caused by wildlife, to address stronger commodity prices. This program is available to all Saskatchewan producers; you do not need to be an existing Crop Insurance customer to qualify for coverage, the Ministry said.

The Ministry of Agriculture said it “remains committed to funding innovation and growth in the industry.

The 2021-22 Agriculture budget will also once again include $32.9 million in funding for agriculture research, which matches last year’s record level of funding for research.”

Additional investments will also be made to expand irrigation in Saskatchewan, with an increased $2.5 million for irrigation development projects. This funding will help to advance projects in areas outside of the Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Expansion Project, through existing irrigation development programming.

Expanding irrigation is part of Saskatchewan’s 2030 Growth Plan.

The Growth Plan also aims to increase crop production to 45 million tonnes, increase livestock cash receipts to $3.0 billion, double agriculture value-added revenue to $10 billion and expand agri-food exports to $20 billion. Once again, the Agriculture budget includes $71.2 million for strategic programs under the CAP agreement. CAP programs provide funding for agricultural research, markets and trade, value-added agriculture, environmental sustainability and public trust.

The Ministry said that 2020 once again demonstrated the resilience of the Saskatchewan agriculture sector. Producers harvested the secondlargest crop on record at more than 39 million tonnes. Saskatchewan agri-food exports also reached a new high last year of $16.9 billion, accounting for more than 55 per cent of total provincial exports in 2020.

Wheat Growers The Western Canadian Wheat Growers said they are supportive of the 2021 Saskatchewan budget and the funding that it provides to the agriculture industry across the province.

“Today’s provincial budget provides the appropriate levels of support for the agriculture industry, especially during a pandemic. No new tax increases and no decrease in the budget, ensures ongoing agriculture programs,” said North Battlefordbased Daryl Fransoo, Chair.

The Wheat Growers said the budget recognizes the need for continued record investment in agricultural research. “This is welcome news and highly thought of across the industry,” they said in a release.

The overall 6% increase in the agriculture budget is largely dedicated to farmer support under the Business Risk Management (BRM) programs. These programs ensure that the agriculture industry remains strong, even during perilous times.

“The Western Canadian Wheat Growers offers its thanks to the Saskatchewan government for its commitment and support to the agriculture industry, which has led the province and Canada through the current pandemic.

Given the current commodity prices, the industry will continue to lead the economy,” said Jim Wickett, SecretaryTreasurer.

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Join the crowd. Survey your canola plant counts

By Shawn Senko What is the canola yield when a field has zero canola plants per square foot? Zero. What about one plant per square foot?

Considerably better than zero, but not ideal. The sweet spot is five to eight plants per square foot.

This is based on hybrid canola studies from Western Canada, which showed that canola crops need a minimum of three to four plants per square foot to maintain yield potential.

Canola Council of Canada (CCC) research found that stands of five to six plants per square foot yielded about five bushels per acre more than stands that averaged two to three plants per square foot. Five to eight is a good safe target.

How many fields are hitting that target? The CCC has a new crowdsourced survey project to answer that question.

Through the project, farm families, agronomists and certified crop advisers (CCAs) will count canola plants at the two- to four-leaf stage and enter results into the “Canola Counts Survey” tool at canolacalculator. ca.

“We want to gather data on canola plant populations across the Prairies to compare

regions, and track plant establishment improvements over time,” says Autumn Barnes, my colleague at the CCC who got this survey going. “To give a little more incen-

tive, we’ll have draws for prizes. The more fields you enter, the greater your chances of winning.”

How to count plants

The tools are simple – a hoop or a metre stick.

A hoop with an inside diameter of 56 cm and circumference of 177 cm covers a quarter of a square metre. Count the number of plants inside the hoop, and multiply by four to get plants per square metre. Divide the plants per square metre by 10 to get plants per square foot. With a metre stick, count the seedlings per metre of row. Take that number and multiply by 100 then divide by the spacing between seed rows (in cm) to get plants per square metre.

Divide by 10 to get plants per square foot. For detailed tips, search for “Evaluating the stand” at canolaencyclopedia.ca.

The CCC recommends a target stand of five to eight plants per square foot because plants are often lost between establishment and harvest.

Comparing early-season counts to seeding rates will show what percentage of seeds produce living plants. Comparing harvest counts to earlyseason counts will show what percentage of plants die through the season. The tools at canolacalculator.ca can help.

Plant counts are time well spent. They show how many seeds survived and whether the plant population is enough to meet target yield.

Farmers and agronomists can use this knowledge to seek ways to increase seed survival rates, set seeding rates that align with yield goals and to improve the return on investment for seed.

“We hope you also see the value in plant counts, and will help us out by sharing results through the simple Canola

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–Shawn Senko is an agronomy specialist and plant establishment lead with the Canola Council of Canada. Email senkos@ canolacouncil.org.

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Three years ago, the fourth-generation Saanich, B.C., dairy farmer installed an automatic milking system that milks cows on their schedule, without human intervention. It was a relief, she said, boosting her mental health and making life on the farm more sustainable.

“We used to get up at three in the morning to milk cows,” she said.

“Now, we’re not starting until five-thirty or six, and just getting that extra bit of sleep is huge on our family’s mental health.”

She’s not alone. A study published this month by a team at the University of Guelph found that farmers using automated milking systems reported having better mental health than their peers. But farmers aren’t the only ones benefiting from the technology — the cows

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Both cows and farmers benefit from robotic milking systems, a new study suggests. seem to prefer it, too.

More than half of Canadian farmers — not just dairy farmers — suffer from anxiety, and over a third are depressed, according to a 2019 report by the federal standing committee on agriculture. Deaths by suicide are also higher among farmers, fishery, and forestry workers

than the general population.

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“Automated milking and feeding systems have already become crucial to providing farmers with more time flexibility,” she said.

In traditional milking systems, farmers need to bring their herd into a milking parlour twice daily and attach the milking machines to their udders. Automated

systems avoid this work entirely: A cow can walk up to a milking stall at her leisure and is fed an individualized ration of grain while the machine locates her udders and milks her.

Farmers still need to work long hours — caring for animals is timeintensive — but can do so on a more humane schedule, said Aylard, the Saanich farmer.

“From a behavioural standpoint, it gives the cows a lot more freedom and flexibility, and there are potentially benefits associated with that,” said Trevor DeVries, coauthor on the study and a professor at the University of Guelph.

Those benefits were reflected in the findings of the study, which used lameness — sore feet or legs — to measure the well-being of animals on 28 farms. Farmers with robotic milking systems were less stressed out if they also had automatic feeding systems. They were more stressed if they worked alone, and farmers with better mental health had fewer lame cows in their herd.

“We can’t conclude what is driving what because we didn’t measure changes over time,” said DeVries. “There’s an argument to be made that it goes both ways…

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animals are doing well, from a health and performance standpoint, that would likely also have a positive impact on their caretakers, the producers.”

While the study is the first time this correlation has been officially documented, DeVries said he wasn’t surprised by the results since robotic milkers have surged in popularity recently.

About a decade ago, well under 10 per cent of Canada’s 10,951 dairy farms used these technologies; now, about 15 per cent of farms have them. Their benefit to both cows and farmers is one of the reasons driving the interest, he said.

For Aylard, happier cows and better sleep, while important, weren’t the only factors driving her decision to invest in the technology. Not a lot of people are eager to become farmers, she said, and finding reliable farmhands was almost impossible.

It’s a trend mirrored on farms of all kinds across the country, with the number of farmers under 35 falling by well over half since 1991, according to a 2018 study in Canadian Food Studies. Robots and migrant workers (on farms that can’t easily automate like produce farms) are increasingly meeting those labour needs.

For Aylard, the automatic milker helped pick up that slack, but also brought an added benefit. When she installed the system, she also invested in “cow brushes,” or giant round brushes that spin automatically when a cow approaches them.

“It starts rubbing her back and her face, and whatever she rubs up against (it),” she said.

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Ducks Unlimited Canada endowed chair at USask the first of its kind in the country Saskatoon – A rising star in conservation science has been hired as the Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) Endowed Chair in Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).

Mitch Weegman, an avian ecologist, will teach and mentor USask students while delivering research that addresses some of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.

“Saskatchewan, and more broadly the Canadian prairies and parklands, are legendary for wetlands and waterfowl. Even as a kid, I read about and dreamed of visiting these landscapes.

Launching the chair is the honour of my lifetime and I’m looking forward to getting started,” said Weegman, who will begin his role in USask’s Department of Biology on July 1.

The first of its kind in Canada, the new endowed chair is the result of a partnership between DUC and USask.

Endowed chairs are prestigious faculty positions established in perpetuity, through the support of donors, to focus on targeted areas of research.

“Establishing the endowed chair alongside our longtime partners at USask is one of the most exciting achievements in our organization’s 83-year history,” said Karla Guyn, chief executive officer for DUC. “We’re thrilled to have someone of Mitch’s talent leading, challenging and inspiring the next generation of conservation scientists who will help ensure our natural environment is safeguarded now and into the future.”

Weegman was recruited to USask’s

life managers studying at USask. His research will tackle the greatest challenges in wetland and waterfowl conservation and will shape strategies for sustaining the environment in the face of climate and land-use change.

“Despite decades of research in this arena, there are many aspects we still don’t fully understand about the interactions between the birds and their habitats throughout the year.

More broadly, wetland and waterfowl research provides a launching point to connect with global challenges, including water and food security,” said Weegman, who holds a PhD in biological sciences from the University of Exeter.

USask was chosen as the site of the chair for several reasons, including its ideal location in the Prairie Pothole Region near the western boreal forest—some of North America’s most important landscapes for

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“In the coming years, Mitch and his students will launch new projects and collaborations to build upon USask’s already established research excellence,” said Peta Bonham-Smith, dean of the College of Arts and Science at USask. “We are proud to partner with Ducks Unlimited Canada on advancing conservation science and creating outstanding new opportunities for our students.”

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Battling bad bugs Saskatoon – Scientists fight antibiotic resistance by using synchrotron to study scab disease in potatoes.

In the ongoing war against antibiotic resistant bacteria, a change in battle tactics may prove effective for controlling a common disease of plants and potentially other toxins that affect humans and animals.

Although bacterial toxins cause serious, often deadly diseases, “bacteria aren’t trying to be nasty,” said Dr. Rod Merrill, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph. “They’re hungry and looking for food, and we’re often the food.” He added that 99 per cent of bacteria are helpful – like gut flora – so the battle is against the remaining one per cent.

The usual approach is to develop antibiotics “that kill the bacteria but not us, or the plant, or the animal,” stated Merrill. However, bacteria mutate quickly, as quickly as every 30 minutes, which leads to antibiotic resistance. “And unfortunately, the pipeline for new antibiotics is empty.”

The approach that Merrill and his research group are pursuing is an anti-virulence strategy –

finding or designing small molecules that inhibit the tools bacteria use to colonize the host and create infection. “If we can put a lock on their weapons, they can’t get food and will move on so there’s not the same pressure to mutate.

We’re going with this approach because we think it’s time to change up tactics.”

To validate the concept, Merrill turned to a bacterium called Streptomyces scabies that causes the common scab disease in root and tuber vegetables like potatoes and carrots. The disease creates lesions on the vegetables, mak-

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“Potato is the most important vegetable crop in Canada and the fourth largest crop in the world,” said Merrill, who grew up on a beef farm in southern Alberta.

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Feds won’t ban pesticides deadly to bees, bugs, and their ecosystems Marc Fawcett-Atkinson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Canada’s National Observer) Pesticides harmful to bees, water bugs, and other insects will continue to be allowed for use on Canadian fields and lawns.

Decisions published recently by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) will allow the continued widespread use of two insecticides. The chemicals, colloquially called neonics, are known to harm pollinators, aquatic insects, and ecosystems they support.

The announcement marks a dramatic shift in the government’s approach: In a 2018 scientific review, the PMRA recommended the chemicals be banned to protect aquatic insects and their ecosystems.

The agency delayed its final decisions on the chemicals for two years while considering additional data on toxicity and insects’ level of exposure in natural environments.

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The federal government last week announced that it will not ban a class of pesticides known to harm bees, aquatic insects, and the ecosystems that depend on them. disappointing,” said Lisa Gue, senior policy adviser for the David Suzuki Foundation. The organization is among a handful who slammed the decisions when they were announced last week. “The decision ...

is simply not a credible response to the risks identified.”

In its final decisions, the agency said risks to aquatic insects will be adequately mitigated by reducing application rates and ban-

ning their use in a few specific cases. Most uses of the pesticides will be allowed to continue, however. The decisions also required the application rates listed on the product labels to be reduced within the next two years.

“Based on the updated scientific assessment, it was determined that certain uses did not pose an

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For Gue, those measures are “simply inadequate.”

“The regulatory agency, instead of proceeding with the proposed phaseout of these chemicals, has decided to simply tinker around the edges,” she said.

Neonics are a class of water-soluble insecticides that damage insects’ nervous system, said Nigel Raine, a professor of environmental science at the University of Guelph who studies pollinators.

Commonly applied as a spray to fields, or directly on plant seeds, they’re designed to be absorbed by plants, protecting crops from the pests trying to eat them.

However, studies have found the chemicals in ponds, marshes, and streams contaminated by runoff from fields. They are also absorbed into plants’ pollen, exposing the bees and other pollinators feeding off the contaminated plants.

Aquatic insects and ground nesting bees — the lesser-known, native relatives of honeybees who are important pollinators — are particularly vulnerable because they are immersed with the chemicals for most of their lives, Raine explained.

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‘Imagination is the limit:’ U of S research to catch cattle diseases early Nick Pearce Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

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Gregg Adams can imagine saving a herd of cattle from an outbreak of a deadly disease in the span of hours.

The University of Saskatchewan professor is heading a multidisciplinary research project that could bring high-tech solutions to age-old problems of disease facing cattle and bison herds.

“Our new genomic and imaging technology allows us

“It’s going to open up a lot of possibilities that we can’t imagine at the moment.”

The project, called “Integrated omics for sustainable animal agriculture and environmental stewardship (IntegrOmes),” collects big sets of data like genetic information from animals and helps connect it with physical traits, he said.

That means a farmer can soon pluck a hair from an animal, feed it into a hand-held device, and get a detailed assessment of the animal’s genetic traits that was once unimaginable. With the information, farmers can spot resistances to maladies like bovine respiratory disease — one of cattle’s biggest killers, Adams said.

From there, farmers can select animals for breeding with inherent disease resistance.

Another example Adams uses is tackling pregnancy

loss in a herd. Previously, taking samples to a lab for a post mortem could take a week to 10 days when intervention is most needed, he said. The new tools would allow that action to be taken before an outbreak occurs.

The technology has the potential to be used for bison conservation efforts as more First Nations reintroduce the animals to their lands, he noted. Researchers can use the data to find why some bison carry an endemic disease, while others don’t.

Comparing the groups can create a screening tool to flag animals with resistances.

DNA sequencers used to be the size of football fields, but now they can be carried in the palm of a researcher’s hand, Adams noted. He said they even have the potential to address problems like mad cow disease, assuming the tools are available at the time.

“One’s imagination is the limit,” Adams said. “It’s kind of overwhelming at first. You go, ‘Wow, look at the possibilities.’ ”

PESTICIDES Continued from Page A16 — the impacts are more subtle … for example, with bees we see impacts on learning and memory.

They are less able to remember odours they’ve encountered before. They forage less effectively, they collect less pollen, it can affect their orientation.”

Those impacts can accumulate and ultimately make it more difficult for the insects to reproduce and maintain healthy population levels, he said.

About 85 per cent of the world’s crops depend on bees and other pollinators to bear fruit; without them, humans would struggle to produce enough food. But despite their importance, the world’s pollinators are in rapid decline.

— are estimated to have seen their relative abundance crash by 97 per cent, with the sharpest decline occurring in the past 30 years, a 2011 study found.

Earlier this year, researchers estimated that roughly a quarter of the world’s bee species are in decline and could go extinct. In North America, bumblebees — a vital native pollinator

“(The problem) is at a landscape and ecosystem scale,” said Raine.

Fewer aquatic insects mean less food for birds, fish, and other animals, leading to much broader impacts on ecosystems

But pollinator decline isn’t the only threat posed by neonics.

and biodiversity. That concern is echoed by Gue, who described the deadly impact of neonics on aquatic insects as a “canary in the coal mine,” pointing to ecosystem collapse.

Still, while eliminating the chemicals and equally harmful substitutes will help pollinators and other insects survive, deeper changes in how we grow food are needed. Monocropping — the dominant method used to industrially grow food in North America —

requires pesticides.

Researchers have pointed out that more diversified crops can benefit yields and biodiversity, yet monocropping remains widespread. That means minimizing the immediate harm posed by neonics and other chemicals is essential, Raine explained.

“If we’re going to keep farming in the way we are at the moment, we are going to need some of these products, and understanding which of

the products are the safest and cause the least harm is going to be a very key part of that sustainability mandate,” he said.

Making sure those chemicals don’t cause the same ecosystem-wide problems as neonics before they are widely used is essential.

“That’s a very important lesson we should take from the neonicotinoid story, and make sure we learn from the unintended errors we’ve made in that journey,” he said.

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Feds to sow farm-based climate research hub in Saskatchewan Nick Pearce - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Saskatoon StarPhoenix) The federal government wants to plant the seed of an open air climate change laboratory on Saskatchewan farmland.

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food MarieClaude Bibeau wants the lab to act as a hub, bringing farmers and scientists together to find best practices for a sector facing the brunt of climate change.

“The aim of this program is for every province in Canada to have at least one hub of collaboration,” she said on Thursday.

“Each hub will centre on real farms where farmers and researchers can co-develop and widely share their best practices.”

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The second phase is slated to begin in the fall; up to $10 million is to be spent per project.

Indigenous organizations and non-profit groups may also be considered for funding, a news release added.

The money is an expansion of the federal government’s living labs program, which is currently active in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.

Some of the practices up for study include cover crops, intercropping, conversion of marginal land to permanent cover, shelterbelts, nutrient management, and inclusion of pulse crops

in rotations, a Thursday news release said.

Federal funding for farm research is positive, but “the devil is always in the details,” said Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) President Todd Lewis.

If the projects are successful, it could reveal valuable information about farming in Saskatchewan, he said.

Saskatchewan producers are open to research opportunities and benefit from close ties with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, he said. First Nations in Saskatchewan with large agricultural footprints may also be strong candidates, Lewis added.

Farm groups encouraging their members to participate could help uptake, but that also goes for individual producers looking to improve their best practices.

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Lewis pointed to shelterbelts as an example of a strong possible research project. Many of the lines of trees and shrubs forming barriers on farmland have been removed in Saskatchewan, making

them prime targets for study.

Ongoing issues with pollinators may also mean they’re well suited to be reestablished, potentially as a collaboration between research-

ers, canola growers and APAS members, Lewis said.

“Hopefully, the money’s accessible and we’re able to get some good projects up and running.”

APAS responds to Supreme Court ruling on federal carbon pricing Saskatchewan farm group disappointed

by Supreme Court decision on carbon tax March 25, 2021 (Regina, SK) – The President of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) is disappointed with the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the challenges to federal jurisdiction over carbon taxation.

“Saskatchewan agricultural producers have been very concerned about the impact of the federal carbon tax on our sustainability,” APAS President Todd Lewis explained. “As producers, we don’t set the prices for our products, and can’t pass those extra costs along the value chain, so it comes right out of our pockets.”

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These cost increases will include trucking, rail freight, and grain drying.

“APAS decided to get involved as an interven-

or in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal case because agriculture and environment are shared federal/provincial areas of jurisdiction, and policymaking in those areas works best when it’s developed by both levels of government and reflects the best interests of those sectors.”

Lewis pointed out that the federal carbon pricing policy still impacted the financial sustainability of producers, and that the needs of producers would have to be addressed by the federal government.

“The Court has upheld the federal government’s jurisdiction, and now the government must act to resolve the outstanding issues faced by our industry.”

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FCC report shows opportunity in changing food and beverage trends Regina, Saskatchewan, March 30, 2021 – Despite some setbacks caused by the pandemic, Canada’s food and beverage sector may emerge even stronger in 2021, according to a new FCC report.

“The pandemic has brought losses that can never be recouped, but it has also opened a floodgate of opportunities for Canada’s food and beverage sector to become an even stronger part of the national economy,” said J.P. Gervais, FCC’s chief economist. “In many ways, the pandemic did not create these opportunities, but accelerated the tide of underlying trends that promote them.”

Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, the report shows most economic indicators for the food and beverage processing sector are strong compared to other sectors of the Canadian economy.

Capital expenditures and employment in food and beverage processing, for example, fell less as a percentage than all industries combined.

The report also notes that higher disposable income and savings in 2020 will likely spur growth in food and beverage consumption once it is safe to fully reopen food services.

Success in containing the virus abroad also carries significant implications for Canada’s food and beverage processors, since more than 30 per cent of sales have gone to export markets over the past five years, according to the report.

Consumer trends and export markets offer a variety of opportunities for different parts of the food and beverage sector, which together represents the largest manufactur-

ing employer in Canada with almost 300,000 workers. It’s also the second largest manufacturing sector in terms of value of production with sales of goods manufactured worth $122.9 billion in 2020. That year, the sector represented 1.8 per cent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Grain and oilseed milling is expected to see the most significant increase in sales at 13.4 per cent, due to increased demand for edible oils, flour, and other baking products domestically and abroad.

Plant-based products are expected to capture a greater portion of food spending as part of a growing consumer trend.

Sugar and confectionary products are projected to see a 12.3-per-cent increase in sales for 2021 as consumers appear ready to indulge after going through various lockdowns,

according to the report.

There are also projected sales increases for dairy products (5.6 per cent), beverages (4.9 per cent), processed seafood (4.7 per cent), meat products (4.6 per cent), and bakery and tortilla products (2.1 per cent) in 2021. Fruit, vegetables and specialty foods sales are expected to remain steady in 2021.

“The food and beverage processing sector showcased its resilience by adapting to the evolving trends and challenges posed by the pandemic,” Gervais said. “Government investments in food security and safety, along with low interest rates, a weak dollar and strong demand for healthy and high-quality Canadian food, could be the catalyst the sector needs to lead Canada’s economic recovery.”

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Government announces increased funding for channel clearing Recently, Premier Scott Moe announced $2 million over two years in funding to expand channel clearing for Rural Municipalities across Saskatchewan.

“As we work through economic recovery, investments in our communities will help build our future,” Moe said.

“Increased funding for water management in

rural communities will not only help protect essential infrastructure but also help our producers grow Saskatchewan’s economy.”

The Water Security Agency originally budgeted $600,000 over two years for channel clearing. This increase in funding will allow for the program to grow to

$500,000 for the 2020-21 fiscal year. In 2021-22, funding will increase again to $1.5 million for a total investment of $2 million over two years.

This is an additional $1.4 million over two years to support RMs with channel clearing activities.

Channel clearing involves removing beaver dams, debris, trees and shrubs, and the

removal of silt and blow dirt from and along natural channels, lessening the possibilities of blockages that can cause flooding and damage to infrastructure.

Obstructed creeks and channels cause flooding and erosion problems to many RMs and local landowners. This program supports RMs in the removal of these

obstructions.

“Our members welcome the news of this timely additional support for a needed program, especially as we enter the spring season,” SARM President Ray Orb said. “Our communities are concerned not only about proactively dealing with situations like flooding, but also practicing good water

management that protects our ratepayers investments.”

Clearing dense vegetation can also reduce unwanted nutrients from water bodies and is an essential component of any long-term water management plan.

For more information on the program and how to apply please visit, www.wsask.ca.

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Health Canada looking for input on gene editing guidelines Spencer Kemp - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (The WorldSpectator (Moosomin) From now until May 24, 2021, Health Canada is calling for public consultation on new guidelines for plant breeding innovation.

Health Canada has proposed guidelines and regulations to allow for foods produced through gene-editing to be included in the 2006 Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Novel Foods.

According to Erin Gowriluk, Executive Director of the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC), plant breeding techniques have been advancing around the world, but Canada’s regulatory guidance has not been able to keep up.

She notes that Health Canada’s proposal is a step in the right direction.

“Health Canada launched their consultation this week and it’s an important one because it’s a conversation the sector has been having with officials at Health Canada for a number of years. It’s important because Canadian farm-

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A rye crop in Saskatchewan. Health Canada is asking for public consultation on the new guidelines for plant breeding innovation in Canada. ers, as you well know, compete in the national marketplace. So what happens in Canada relative to other jurisdictions, especially our competitors, has a real impact on whether or not Canadian farmers can be competitive in the international marketplace,” said Gowriluk.

“When we see countries like Australia for example or the United States moving in this direction and making the

regulatory pathway for plant breeding innovation like gene-editing technology more transparent, more predictable, and frankly more appropriate that puts Canadian farmers at a competitive disadvantage.

“So what we’re seeing now in these discussion documents, we feel it means that Health Canada is moving in the right direction.”

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these new guidelines would help entice multinational companies to establish locations in Canada.

“Many companies that offer products and services here in Canada and around the world are multi-national companies and they have to make a choice as to where they make an investment. We want the Canadian marketplace to be an environment where they see value in that investment. As it stands right now, the regulatory environment for gene-editing technology is unclear. It doesn’t provide a clear pathway.

So when you are met with that level of uncertainty, you don’t know how much time it will take to get the necessary approval and the level of investment that will be required, but you have that certainty and clarity in other jurisdictions?

As a multi-national company that is where you will make your investments. You’ll make your investments in a country that does provide greater regulatory certainty.”

Gowriluk encourages farmers to share their voice and their thoughts

on the proposed guidelines as it benefits the Canadian market.

“We want Canada to follow suit. We want Canada to be more like the like-minded countries that we work with like the United States, Australia, Japan, LatinAmerican countries who are all moving in this direction. We think it’s important to level the playing field in the international market for Canadian farmers by making sure that these multi-national companies are making investments in Canada too.”

Gerry Hertz, who is a farmer in Edenwold Saskatchewan, says that gene-editing is important for Canadian producers and would allow them to keep up with the everadvancing national market.

“In general, Health Canada’s decision is that gene-editing is safe and that during this consultation period they’re asking for responses back. I think it’s a good idea that farmers send their confirmation to Health Canada that yes, geneediting is very important for us and it is a clean way to do what we’ve been doing for thousands of years. It’s different than a genetically modified organism so you can’t compare the two, but really what it comes down to is that we’re in favour of what decision has been made so far.”

Hertz also notes that not keeping up with the national market would impact both producers and gene-editing researchers as well.

“Countries like the United States, Australia, Japan, they all approved genetic engineering in the past year, if not earlier than that, and the reality is that investment and the people who are doing the research are going to go to where their research is welcome.

And from that perspec-

tive, yes, the sooner we get things done and approved the sooner we strengthen our industry.

“We don’t want to lose researchers to other parts of the world where certain techniques have been approved, so they’re worried it won’t be approved here and so they leave. That’s what we’re worried about. We want to keep those brains in Canada and actually entice them to stay. We have to be fast on making sure that a quick decision is made and the right decision as well.”

Hertz notes that from his perspective, the guidelines are a step in the right direction and would provide producers with new opportunities as well.

“In general we’re happy with the guidelines. They’ve come out basically saying it’s a safe procedure and really what it is that when we were doing research and genetic breeding in the past you’d breed crop and you’d get the good, the bad and the ugly, then you’d try to improve that and get more of the good. What we can do now with gene-editing is you can go in and actually edit the plant, like looking in a book at a specific line for a specific word and improving on that.

“Really it’s a safe way of doing what we’ve always been doing and a really fast way too. All that stuff is very important to us to get to our research and accomplish something a lot faster than we used to. We have to keep up with the rest of the world, we have enough taxes being thrown our way and we need to have some positive things to work on too.”

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Crop Insurance coverage, rates going up, but premium cost declining

By Brian Zinchuk Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Estevan Mercury Regina – Crop Insurance coverage is going up due to higher commodity prices, and rates are going up as well, but the premium cost per dollar of coverage continues to decline.

There’s a new pilot program for vegetables, and changes for forage and chickpeas, too.

On Canada Agriculture Day, Saskatchewan Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Donna Harpauer and, through a press release, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food MarieClaude Bibeau, announced enhancements to the 2021 Crop Insurance Program. This year, Crop Insurance coverage will reach a record level due to higher commodity prices and increased yield coverage.

“Farmers across Saskatchewan continue to step up despite all the challenges thrown their way during the COVID19 pandemic,” Bibeau said in a release. “These improvements to the Crop Insurance Program give Saskatchewan farmers more coverage they can count on. We will continue working with our provincial counterparts to ensure farmers have the risk management tools to help their stability and growth.”

Asked if the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on crop insurance, Harpauer said, “None.”

“For over 60 years, the Crop Insurance Program has supported Saskatchewan producers with reliable coverage and exceptional customer service,” Harpauer said. “We are committed to providing producers with the insurance programs they need and the enhancements announced today build upon the current suite of programs.”

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There are some updates to forage programs within Crop Insurance. ing season.”

Coverage will reach a record level of $273 per acre due to higher commodity prices and increased yield coverage, up from $224 in 2020. This represents a 22 per cent increase in coverage. The average premium cost per dollar of coverage continues to decline.

There was a 42 per cent reduction in average premium cost per dollar of coverage over the last 10 years. This includes a 20 per cent reduction directly resulting from the strong financial position of the program, SCIC said. However, due to the increased coverage for 2021, the average premium for producers will be higher than in 2020.

The average premium per acre will be $8.59, up from $7.40.

Harpauer said, “Establishment benefit values are reviewed annually. This year, the establishment benefit values for canola, lentils, chickpeas and corn have increased. Canola is now $70 per acre. Large green lentils are $50 per acre and red lentils are $30 per acre. Large Kabuli chickpeas are $65 per acre and Small Kabuli chickpeas are $45 per acre. Corn is $95 per acre.”

New forage options New in 2021, producers growing tame hay will have additional options when insuring their hay acres. Crop Insurance customers now have the choice to insure their tame hay acres under the Forage Rainfall Insurance Program (FRIP) or the Multi-Peril Crop Insurance Program.

Coverage options can

be customized for each farming operation.

Under FRIP, payments will be calculated based on rainfall levels, instead of overall yields.

“Saskatchewan cattle producers face a lot of risks. It is good to see the programs they can access through SCIC continue to evolve,” Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association Chair Arnold Balicki said in a release. “Adding tame hay to the Forage Rainfall Insurance Program and extending the calf coverage deadline and hours of operation for Livestock Price Insurance are all positive. I encourage cattle producers to look into SCIC’s programs as there were many improvements in recent years.”

“Forage producers will also see an increase in Native Forage Establishment Benefit coverage. The Native Forage Establishment Benefit provides coverage on newly seeded native forage acres. The coverage is increasing from $75 to $200. Other Forage Establishment Benefit prices seeing an increase includes tame hay to $90 per acre and sweetclover to $65 per acre,” Harpauer said. Forage producers are encouraged to review available coverage options through SCIC’s Forage Option and Weather-Based Programs.

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SCIC has been working with the Saskatchewan Vegetable Growers’ Association to develop programming for the growing commercial vegetable sector in Saskatchewan. The impact of a crop failure on vegetable operations could be significant as a relatively small number of acres has extremely high value. A minimum of eight acres is required to participate in the program. SCIC will continue to explore insurance coverage options for the Commercial Vegetable Program.

Last summer, the Government of Saskatchewan made one of the largest announcements for agriculture in this province in years, laying out a plan for $4 billion in expansion of irrigation in central Saskatchewan, with an eye to growing different crops, including vegetables. Asked how this will impact Crop Insurance, Harpauer responded, “That’s a ways into the future. So I think it’s important that they’re doing the pilot

this year. And we’ll see how that goes. As production increases in vegetables and other crops that benefit for irrigation, I think it’s been demonstrated, here in Saskatchewan, that Crop Insurance officials are very nimble in addressing the crops as they change. I know, myself, from when I was a producer, to today, the crops have changed significantly, and Crop Insurance had been there for all the changes.”

Chickpeas Saskatchewan has also become a significant producer of chickpeas. SCIC is updating the base grade for largeseeded Kabuli chickpeas to reflect current production and marketing patterns. This increases the insured price and the quality coverage.

Carl Potts, executive director of Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, said, “I think the changes to the chickpeas base grade calculation just better reflects the size and the quality of the chickpeas that chickpea producers are producing these days.

It’s simply a better reflection of the product the producers are producing, and should increase the overall level of coverage

for producers.”

Potts called it “a welcome development.”

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Board Chair Shaun Dyrland said, “This change should increase coverage levels for most of the 300 chickpea producers in the province.”

Canola’s significance Asked if there were any trends with farmers moving towards a particular crop, or any move into a “Cinderella crop” in 2021, SCIC acting president and CEO Jeff Morrow responded, “One of the main crops in the province, and the main crops in terms of acres and liability for Crop Insurance programs is canola. That is certainly the most predominant crop. And I say our top three, other than canola, are wheat, duram and peas.”

He said it’s up to producers to decide what they plant, but historically canola has been top.

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Could high-tech farming be the future of food?

By Marc FawcettAtkinson - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Canada’s National Observer) Robots, blockchain, and high-tech plankton might soon be producing food for British Columbians.

The B.C. government last week announced $7.5 million in funding to support 21 agritech companies in the province.

Agritech — a suite of technologies that includes robotics, artificial intelligence, and vertical farms — is a fastgrowing sector, with analysts expecting it to reach about US$18 billion globally by 2022.

The province’s socalled “concierge” program will help connect these businesses to investment capital, navigate government funding programs, and find land — including protected agricultural land.

“The pandemic has reinforced the importance of food security and the role of the B.C. agricultural sector,” said B.C.’s Jobs, Economic Recovery, and Innovation Minister Ravi Kahlon.

“The food system was feeling extreme pressure, and for us as a government, we want to ensure we’re pandemicproof (and) able to produce the food we need to shorten the supply chain, so we don’t need to feel that pressure again.”

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Agritech proponents say it is the future, but critics are unconvinced.

The recent announcement follows a controversial January 2020 report written by a provincial food security task force that argued B.C.’s future food security lies in agritech. Food advocates and academics in the province were unconvinced: By March 2020, they had issued a rebuttal noting social, economic, and sustainability issues with the approach.

Many B.C. farmers already struggle to make ends meet, in part because of the high costs of farmland. Few farm-

ers have affordable access to arable land, and the rebuttal’s authors noted that allowing labs, manufacturing facilities, or other agritech infrastructure on the province’s limited and legally protected farmland could further push up these prices, making farmland primarily accessible to companies or wealthy individuals.

Beyond the farmland issue, the authors said that prioritizing expensive, energy-intensive agritech projects without

offering equivalent supports for farmers using less tech-heavy sustainable farming techniques like agroecology would do little for B.C. food security or sustainability.

It’s a debate that goes beyond B.C. Food is responsible for between 21 per cent and 37 per cent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is driving biodiversity loss. With the global population expected to

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“I would far rather identify the problems and look at the best way to solve those problems then critically evaluate our success … I think it’s a mistake to identify a particular (agritech) solution and then get excited about that rather than figuring out what’s the best way to solve that problem. It might be new tech, it might be old tech, it might be ancient knowledge.”

For instance, some farming practices can boost carbon sequestration and biodiversity, he noted, while new research suggests smaller farms with a diversity of crops have higher yields per acre than industrial agriculture.

Technology that can bolster these approaches — instead of inventing new ones — would have more benefits for less cost, he said.

“As we start to explore growing things in shipping containers, or in vertical farms — situations that a lot of people seem to get very excited about — (we need to) look at the full cost of supporting those systems,” he said.

“It’s important that we consider the entire picture of all the inputs going into a system rather than allowing ourselves to be blinded by what appears to be a

massive increase in one type of efficiency.”

Others doubt a lowertech approach can work.

“The technologies we’re developing will be able to drastically cut climate change (and) the impact on the sector … I think the future is going to be high-tech, fairly local, and plant-based, (and) I have no doubt agritech is the future,” said Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley and one of the authors of the January 2020 report in support of agritech.

While she acknowledged many of the technological leaps in agriculture that define our industrialized food system — artificial fertilizers and pesticides, or monocropping, for instance — have driven GHG emissions and biodiversity loss, developing new technologies isn’t the issue. Until recently, new agricultural technologies hadn’t been evaluated for their overall environmental impacts — but that is changing, she said.

“You have to look at what technologies make sense when you put sustainability into the mix … I think there’s a fear (of technology) from people who have never done hard labour (and) who romanticize a past that never existed,” where people had longlasting and healthy lives on farms. That wasn’t the case, she said, with farm labour often brutal on people’s bodies.

“Any future that says a great portion of the population must go back on the farm, I’m not down for that.”

The rapid technological developments in agriculture over the past 50 years that have greatly contributed to the sector’s sustainability issues were created by bad policy, she said. Not bad technology.

“Looking at (agritech) as someone who studies futures, technology always wins,” she said.

“The question then is we must … build sustainability in at every stage, because that’s what we did wrong over the last 50 years. It wasn’t the technology — it’s the lack of policies to guide outcomes.”

Still, Bomford remains unconvinced that policy safeguards to ensure new technologies reduce their environmental harm will do much. They may help to safely implement technological approaches to specific problems, but the agritech approach isn’t a “silver bullet” to our food system woes, he said.

“It’s (a question of) approaching problems with a variety of possible solutions as opposed to simply targeting new and exciting agritech,” he said.

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Manitoba flood risk recedes, drought risk intensifies Sarah Lawrynuik - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Winnipeg Free Press) Southern Manitoba will dodge flooding this spring, but may be up against harsh conditions of a different kind: drought.

The government of Manitoba has not yet issued a drought advisory, but officials are making preparations for such an eventuality, as the province experiences below-average precipitation and moisture since last fall.

“Southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan are down 20 per cent of normal precipitation of the past 40 years. Some areas in southwestern Manitoba are at a record-low precipitation level,” Minister of Infrastructure Ron Schuler said Tuesday.

Schuler said both Environment and Climate Change Canada and the U.S. National Weather Service are forecasting slightly below-average rainfall over the next three

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“So far, things look okay, but again the forecast going forward is that we’re not looking at a lot of rain coming in the next few months,” he said.

Statistics from the Weather Network show Winnipeg received only 52 per cent of its regular precipitation over the

course of 2020.

The risk of drought in Manitoba is rising moving toward mid-century amidst human-caused climate change. The Prairie provinces regional report released in December by Natural Resources Canada states drought and wildfires represent the largest current threat to the

region.

“We know that there’s been a lot of change because of climate change. And watching for trends, this has been an up and down. Again, we know that a lot of things are changing. The swings seem to be wilder than they have been before,” Schuler said.

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Monitor is forecasting severe or extreme conditions across most of North Dakota.

A Manitoba committee has been assembled, Schuler said, to consider possible next steps, including pumping water into dugouts, if needed.

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“We’re also pleased to be able to look at some of the things that they’re also enhancing, Kabuli chickpeas in particular.

“In general, we’re favorable, and always have been favorable, to uplifting and adjusting some of the weather based insurance programs. And we think that will help our livestock producers, as far as protecting their forage crops and things like that.

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Farms’ average net operating income — the value of a farm’s sales minus its operating expenses — increased by about a quarter last year compared to 2019, reaching roughly $95,000, the Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food said in a February statement.

Those gains are not evenly distributed, however.

“The problem… is that there’s massive inequality” that’s not well reflected by averages, said Darrin Qualman, director of climate policy and innovation for the National Farmers Union.

A closer look at the federal data shows that almost half of Canada’s farms have a net operating income close to zero; roughly a third are in the red. But the top 20 per cent — about 38,000 farms — have net operating incomes well above average, reaching between $800,000 and $1 million for the most profitable.

The most profitable commodities last year were potatoes, pigs, and

poultry. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada also reported that the grain sector — which is largely export-based — had a very good 2020, growing in sales value by about 12 per cent compared to 2019.

Statistics Canada doesn’t collect data in a way that can show where those farms are located, who operates them, and whether they sell to domestic or export markets, making it tricky to assess who is profiting most from the rising farm incomes.

Still, the high levels of inequality are concerning, Qualman said.

“Broad and relatively equitable landholding is being replaced by concentrated control of farmland,” often by companies, notes a November report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Inequality is a key factor driving this shift: Wealthier farmers or agribusinesses will regularly buy out less-profitable operations to maximize their economies of scale. That makes food production more economically efficient, but the bulk of those gains go to a smaller pool of people or companies.

Demand for farmland will, in turn, drive up its price, pushing young farmers unable to afford land out of the industry.

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“Historically, changes in farmland access, ownership and control affect … our patterns of employment, surrounding economies, and the democratic control of our food systems,” the report notes.

High levels of consolidation throughout the food supply chain can make it more vulnerable to disruptions like the pandemic. Last spring, for instance, two of Canada’s three main meat-processing plants — together responsible for processing about 90 per cent of the country’s beef — were forced to close after COVID-19 outbreaks. The bottleneck caused by their closure impacted the entire supply chain, from farm to fork.

Furthermore, the report noted that with fewer farms working more land, the distribution of agriculture’s benefits flows to fewer people and companies in farming communities.

That often makes it more difficult for them to decide to survive.

“Increasing concentration is not in farmers’ interest nor the broader public interest (and) there is a clear need … for measures to counter farmland consolidation and create more equitable and broad-based holding of food-production assets,” the report said.

FLOOD Continued from Page 23 infrastructure where it is needed, to prepare for more-extreme flooding events.

(Which also have a forecasted risk increase due to climate change.)

This includes the complete rebuild of the Rapid City dam that was washed out in June 2020.

Schuler said the Red River has already peaked at all points, and the floodway will not be used this year. The Portage diversion of the Assiniboine River will only be used to avoid ice break-up damages.

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The people who volunteer in the Hospital Gift Shoppe and at our many events do so to help us raise funds to improve the medical services available in our community. You are essential to the work we do. We are looking forward to working with you and new volunteers again. There is a generosity of spirit to volunteers; it makes them wonderful people to be around and we thank them for everything they do.

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WHAT IS IT? Micro-volunteering is based on the notion that people are more likely to volunteer their time in short, convenient bursts. It refers to volunteer tasks that take no more than an hour or two to complete and can be done whenever they fit into the person’s schedule. Importantly, micro-volunteering doesn’t require an application, training process or any ongoing commitment.

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By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer National Volunteer Week 2021 is April 18-24, and this year’s theme, The Value of One, The Power of Many.

The theme covers a broad range too.

“The theme is a nod to our past, a reflection of our present, and a wink to our future.

“The Value of One, the Power of Many” was the theme for National Volunteer Week in 2001,” said Lisa Washington – Community Development Manager with the City at a recent meeting of Yorkton Council.

The week is important because volunteerism is important to Canadians, offered Washington.

“National Volunteer Week is a celebration of the commitment, dedication and selflessness that are the hallmarks of volunteerism across Canada. Volunteering is part of our identity as Canadians – and we value civic participation and embrace a spirit of community. Volunteer Canada, a national non-profit organization, is the national voice for volunteerism. According to Volunteer Canada, 12.7 million Canadian volunteers give their time to help others, contributing close to two billion volunteer hours per year,” she said.

Locally, volunteers are integral to a range of organizations and groups.

When asked how important, Tonia Vermette, Administrator with the Yorkton Arts Council was enthusiastic in her response.

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tionally, particularly, absolutely, 100 per cent,” she said. “...The Yorkton Arts Council is run by a volunteer board of directors. Volunteers are instrumental to the delivery of all our programs. They do everything.”

Erin Roussin with the Boys and Girls Club of Yorkton said volunteers make things run.

“Volunteers are extremely important to our organization,” she said, adding, “unfortunately, COVID-19 has greatly impacted our ability to utilize volunteers for programming as we stay within participant guidelines, as well as some programs have moved to a virtual format for right now.”

But beyond COVID, volunteers are a big part of the club.

“Our organization here, and across Canada, rely heavily on volunteers to do what they do each and every day,” said Roussin. “Our volunteers share their expertise with our children, youth and families.

They have a passion to make a difference in their community and build strong, meaningful relationships with Club participants. Our volunteers generously give many hours to be a part of something and help children and youth feel accepted and welcomed. “ “Volunteers are the essence of the Chamber of Commerce as they serve on its Board of Directors and committees,” said Juanita Polegi, Executive Director with the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce. “People have been committing their time, skills and knowledge to the Yorkton Chamber since 1898.

“The current 16 volunteer Directors are elected by their peers to serve literally as ‘the voice of business’ in Yorkton to guide the Chamber in its policy and advocacy efforts on behalf of the business community. They strive to ‘… make Yorkton & District the best place to live, work and invest’.”

Randy Goulden, Executive Director of the Yorkton Film Festival picked up on how volunteers are an invaluable resource.

“Invaluable -- the Yorkton Film Festival has thrived in a rural Saskatchewan community only because of the volunteers who are the heart of the festival,” she said.

“Volunteers are important! The Health Foundation would not be as effective without volunteers,” continued Ross Fisher, Executive Director with the Foundation.

“We are managed by a volunteer Board of Directors, and it is our board that sets our priorities and provides direction to staff.

“We rely on hundreds of volunteers to help us put on and manage our events, as well as operate the Gift Shoppe at the Regional Hospital.”

Volunteers are critical to key Foundation fundraisers, continued Fisher.

Annually The Health Foundation holds four big events: Charity Golf Classic, Charity Road Race which includes the Learn to Run Clinics, Rhythm ‘n Ribs and the Gala. “For each of those events we have a volunteer committee who oversees the planning and recruiting volunteers to work

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during the event,” said Fisher.

“An event like Rhythm ‘n Ribs requires over 100 volunteers.

“People volunteer at one of our events or at the Gift Shoppe as it helps raise funds to enhance or maintain the services we have at the hospital. Normally we raise approximately $200,000 a year from volunteer activity.”

The Yorkton Exhibition Association is another group which relies heavily on volunteers.

“Volunteers are extremely important to the operation and success of our organization,” said Barb Woytas, General Manager with the YEA, also noting thanks to volunteer efforts the local economy benefits too. “We are an Association of Yorkton and District volunteers committed to the presentation of a variety of year round events which serve to promote the agriculture industry, build a sense of community, benefit the economy of the region, educate and inform, provide a venue for business and industry to present their products and services and offer a wide range of unique entertainment packages.”

The Yorkton Exhibition Board is governed by 15 volunteer men and women which makes up our Board of Directors.

We are volunteer based and depend on the contribution and commitment of our many volunteers,” said Woytas. “Throughout the year, we frequently partner with numerous community volunteer groups and organization in mutual support.”

It’s the same when it comes to sport organizations.

“Volunteers are crucial to the Minor Baseball organization. Without volunteers there would be no organization,” offered Yorkton Minor Baseball Executive Director, Gina Flett.

“It is a non profit that depends on volunteers to coach and organize teams, leagues and tournament.

If Minor baseball had to pay people for these posi-

tions, fees for registration would be more than double and enrollment would be minimal.”

The roles volunteers take on keep the ball diamonds active, said Flett.

“Volunteers support the group and community by organizing events, bringing other teams to our centre,” she said, “which creates revenue for restaurants, hotels and shopping. Baseball provides opportunity for businesses to advertise by sponsoring teams that travel throughout our local area as well as Southern Saskatchewan.”

Woytas too noted how what volunteers do helps make Yorkton a place to visit.

“Our volunteers are committed to organizing and presenting a wide variety of exciting agricultural, educational and cultural events year round,” she said. “They are extremely hands on and are imperative to the success of the events and our organization.

“In 2019 the Yorkton Exhibition events drew over 60,000 guests to the City of Yorkton from across Saskatchewan and Western Manitoba having an economic impact of well over $5,000,000.”

Roussin said the role of volunteers is varied.

“We have a variety of roles that volunteers fill within our Club. Our Board of Directors is a volunteer Board who generously give of themselves to enhance the governance of the Club,” she said. “Our Board is a group of individuals who are dedicated to the development of children and youth in their community.

“We have program volunteers who assist with the implementation of a variety of Club programs and services. These volunteers assist our children and youth to learn, grow and develop into contributing members of society. These volunteers are positive role models who foster meaningful connections and relationships with children and youth.

“We utilize volunteers to assist with Club initiatives related to fundraising. These volunteers take part in events, raffles sales, organizing and collecting a variety of donations on our behalf, and similar activities to raise funds for Club programs and services.”

Polegi said volunteers take on all sorts of roles.

“As representatives of a broad business sector and each possessing a range of skills and knowledge, they each bring a different perspective to the Board table when discussing opportunities and issues facing the local business community,” she noted. “From their discussions, the Board is able to set a course of action for itself or make recommendations to the various orders of government. The Chamber Board doesn’t hesitate to point out to any order of government policies that will advance or hinder the business interests in Yorkton and area. Advocating for the Chamber members is what the Chamber does best.

“Internally, Directors have been known to assist the staff with the delivery of Chamber events and activities; provide creative ideas; and provide guidance and assistance when gaps in skills appear. The sharing of these ideas and knowledge enables the Chamber to evolve and grow as it serves the business community.”

It’s the same thing at the Film Festival where volunteers wear a variety of hats including; Shuttle drivers – who are ambassadors for the city and festival, noted Goulden, adding “they provide information on Yorkton, Saskatchewan and the festival as they drive the delegates from Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax and many more locations across Canada to our city.”

Volunteers are also screening hosts – who run the projectors and introduce the films, providing the incredible hospitality Yorkton is known for, she said.

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Where to find volunteer opportunities Every year, Volunteer Canada dedicates a week in April to celebrating volunteers and encouraging more Canadians to get involved in their communities.

This year, National Volunteer Week takes place from April 18 to 24, and the theme is The value of one. The power of many. If you want to volunteer, here’s where you can find opportunities in your area.

opportunities in your area.

Alternatively, some centres may ask you to fill out a form so they can contact you with opportunities based on your skills and availability.

To find a volunteer centre near you, consult Volunteer Canada’s online directory at volunteer.ca.

ONLINE Another simple way to find volunteer opportunities in a particular province, region or city is to use Volunteer Canada’s panCanadian volunteer matching platform. This resource allows you to choose from more than 75,000 volunteer opportunities and narrow your search based on your location, interests and skills. You can even find opportunities to volunteer virtually.

VOLUNTEER CENTRES The primary purpose of a volunteer centre is to promote volunteerism in the community by encouraging people to donate their time and providing them with the resources they need to get involved.

Volunteer centres also help local organizations improve the way they recruit, manage and retain volunteers. Additionally, these centres play an important role in raising awareness about the community’s needs and the Finally, remember you can always reach out directly to local importance of volunteer service. organizations, or speak with If you want to give back, a friends, neighbours and colleagues volunteer centre can provide you who might know of a good cause with an up-to-date list of the that could use your help.

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Feed & Seed ANAKA FARM Pickseed for all your forage needs: Alfalfa, grass blends, oats, barley. Call Ed 306-563-6261, cell 306-621-7546.

Gorlitz, SK. FORAGE SEED FOR SALE: Organic & conventional: Sweet Clover, Alfalfa, Red Clover,, Smooth Brome, Meadow Brome, Crested Wheatgrass, Timothy, etc.

Star City, SK. Birch Rose Acres Ltd. 306-921-9942.

Livestock FOR SALE: Polled Purebred 2 year old and yearling Charolais bulls. Some red factor. Phone 306435-7116. King’s Polled Charolais.

Legacy Co-op is Now Accepting Tenders for a 2010 Freightliner Fuel Delivery Unit

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For more information contact: Rodney Kuciuk, Petroleum Manager 306 782-2451 For sale by sealed tender only. Tenders can be mailed to: Attn: Rodney Kuciuk, Legacy Co-op Box 5025, Yorkton, Sk, S3N 3Z4 Or hand delivered in a sealed envelope to: Legacy Co-op Agro Centre, 180 Hamilton Road, Yorkton. Attn: Rodney Kuciuk

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021.

SPRINGSIDE HOUSING Authority is currently accepting applications for a 3 bedroom home. Fridge and stove included. Well kept, clean and quiet neighborhood. Rent is based on income. No Pets. For more information and applications please call Morlie at 306-792-2222 or 306-621-7815.

Suites For Rent SPRINGSIDE HOUSING Authority is currently accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom Senior Suites at the Heritage Place. Fridge and stove included. Central laundry with two washers and dryers. Well kept, ready for rent. Rent is based on income. For more information and applications please call Morlie at 306-792-2222 or 306-621-7815.

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Sask Parks launches new reservation website

By Tanner Wallace-Scribner Staff Writer Campers looking to book camping sites will notice a new website ahead of this year’s camping season.

The Government of Saskatchewan has launched a new reservation site that will launch April 12, the same day that reservations for seasonal campsites for all parks that offer seasonal camping. Nightly, camp accessible, group, equestrian and rec hall reservations will be open for provincial parks in the following days.

Robin Campese, the executive director of visitor experiences, said that they have a couple of new features that they are excited about, including gift cards and a new program called Camping This Weekend.

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1000s of small lot items selling April 17-22, closing at 5pm Machinery selling April 17-24, closing at 10am

“There is some great pieces of functionality on there; Camping This Weekend is a really great little piece of functionality campers can click on there, see what is available across the entire park system for the upcoming weekend, which is really a big one for us because I think people think we are just full all the time,” she said.

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last year.

Seasonal campsite reservations: April 12 - Seasonal campsites for all parks offering seasonal camping Nightly, camp easy, group, equestrian and rec hall, reservations: April 14 - Pike Lake, The Battlefords, Narrow Hills, Blackstrap April 16 - Bronson Forest, Meadow Lake, Makwa Lake, Lac La Ronge April 19 - Saskatchewan Landing, Douglas, Danielson April 20 - Buffalo Pound, Rowan’s Ravine, Echo Valley, Crooked Lake April 21 - Cypress Hills April 22 - Duck Mountain, Good Spirit Lake, Greenwater Lake April 23 - Candle Lake, Great Blue Heron, Moose Mountain Reservations begin every day at 7 a.m. and will no longer require customers logging in 20 minutes early to be placed in the queue.

Vehicle entry permits are also available to purchase online on the new site, or over the phone. Campers will have vehicle entry permits automatically added to their carts when making a reservation. Campers who are purchasing a daily or weekly entry permit can now print them from home, and annual permits can be picked up in-park.

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Upcoming Unreserved Online-Only Auctions: April 17 – April 27 Unity, SK – April 17 · Terry Box & Doug Box

Legal, AB – April 22 · Don & Marlene Dowhaniuk

Glaslyn, SK – April 19 · Brelou Farms Ltd.

Clavet, SK – April 22 · Gary & Lori Erixon

Lipton, SK – April 19 · Larry & Donna Degelman

Davidson, SK – April 23 · Larry Thomas

Spiritwood, SK – April 20 · Brian & Kathy Cross

Mackay, AB – April 26 · Ross & Charlene Syme

Coronach, SK – April 21 · Planz Farms Ltd

Shellbrook, SK – April 27 · Shellbrook Crushing 1999 Ltd

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Masks, vaccines, lockdown and trust: National survey reveals what Canadians think of COVID-19 pandemic response Saskatoon – Researchers from the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and the University of Regina (U of R) have collaborated with leading public policy organizations across the country on a national public opinion survey that gives voice to Canadians about major issues shaping the future of the federation and their political communities.

The first of many

reports produced from the findings of the Confederation of Tomorrow 2021 Survey of Canadians was released Monday and covered questions about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, such as Canadians’ views on masks-wearing policies, vaccines, lockdowns, and their trust in the scientific and medical community.

“Since March 2020, Canadians from coast to coast have willingly done their part to help mitigate the spread of

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COVID-19 by abiding by public health guidelines to wear masks in public, to social distance from one another, and most recently, to get vaccinated when possible,” said Loleen Berdahl, JSGS executive director. “That said, with the recent outbreak of COVID-19 variant cases in the province, which is more transmissible, governments and public health officials must understand the current sentiment among Canadians so to better inform future policies and programs that will hopefully mitigate further impacts on communities.”

This year’s Confederation of Tomorrow survey was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, the Canada We s t Foundation, the Centre D’Analyse Politique – Constitution et Fédéralisme, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, and the JSGS. The 2021 study consisted of a survey of 5,814 adults, conducted online in the provinces between January 25 and February 17, and online and by telephone in the Auctions

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territories between January 25 and March 1.

“Canada is a diverse and complex country, and the best way to understand it is to work in partnership which experts across regions, including those at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy,” said Dr. Andrew Parkin, executive director at the Environics Institute.

Parkin noted that future reports from the survey will look at how the pandemic has affected how Canadians view the roles of their federal and provincial governments, as well as other key topics such as climate change policy, Canada-U.S. relations, and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Report highlights include: • 77% of respondents say they are not bothered when stores and businesses require customers to wear a mask, while 79% are bothered when people around them in public do not wear masks. 33% of 18 to 24-year-olds surveyed are bothered by maskwearing requirements, compared to 13% of those ages 55+.

• 75% of respondents say that they would definitely or probably get vaccinated to prevent COVID-19 if a vaccine were available to them.

17% would probably or definitely not choose to be vaccinated. The proportion of respondents saying they will definite-

ly not get the vaccine is highest in the Prairies (11%) and P.E.I. (16%).

• 39% of those who identify as racialized say they definitely will get the vaccine, compared to 57% of those who identify as white. There is also considerable variation among racialized groups with those who identify as South Asians (50%), Chinese (48%), Black (25%), and Indigenous (38%).

• 82% of those with a university degree say they would definitely or probably get the vaccine, compared to 68% of those with only a high school education.

• 67% of respondents with household incomes of $30,000 or less say they would definitely or probably get the vaccine.

• 73% of Canadians prefer that governments keep people as safe as possible from the spread of the COVID-19 virus, even if that means reopening the economy more slowly, compared to 19% who prefer a faster reopening of the economy, even if more people end up getting sick. 31% of Conservative Party supporters are more supportive of a faster reopening of the economy than supporters of any other main parties.

• 88% support allowing the government to stop people from moving across the international border between Canada and the United States. 77% support allowing the government

to stop people from moving between provinces and territories within Canada (including 72% support in Saskatchewan). 60% support allowing the government to stop people from moving between different cities or towns within each province or territory. Among supporters of the main federal political parties, Conservatives stand out as the least supportive of restrictions on mobility.

• 84% of Canadians have confidence in scientists, while only 52% have confidence in governments. However, 80% of Canadians trust the medical and health advice given by the Government of Canada.

This suggests that confidence in medical experts generally outweighs doubts about governments.

JSGS faculty members currently conducting COVID-19 related research will use data from the first report issued from the Confederation of Tomorrow 2021 survey.

For more information on current COVID-19 research projects led by JSGS faculty, or to read the new report, All in this Together?

Canadians’ Views on Masks, Vaccines and Lockdowns during the COVID-19 Pandemic, issued from the Confederation of Tomorrow 2021 survey, visit https://www. schoolofpublicpolicy. sk.ca/.

Saskatchewan making significant progress on organ donation Efforts to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation are making an extraordinary difference to Saskatchewan patients and families.

Saskatchewan’s organ donation rate has almost doubled since 2016-17, going from 14 deceased organ donations per year to 25 deceased organ donations in 2020-21. The province’s organ donation rate has risen for three consecutive years and is now comparable to the Canadian average.

Health Minister Paul Merriman says a positive trend is underway in Saskatchewan with the steady increase in organ donation rates during the past year. This is especially significant as rates in most jurisdictions in Canada have decreased as a result of the pandemic.

“This is a hopeful sign for individuals and families awaiting a transplant,” Merriman said. “A lot of hard work has gone into raising awareness of the need for organ donation, and it is encouraging to see that translate into more donations. Saskatchewan’s organ and tissue donor registry - which now has more than 13,000 people signed up - is a key part of maintaining this momentum. I urge everyone to consider registering and expressing their willingness to donate, and possibly one day save a life.”

People are encouraged to register on Saskatchewan’s organ and tissue donor registry at www.givelifesask.ca.

Anyone 16 years of age and over can register to be an organ donor. With a clear understanding of a loved one’s wishes, it is easier for families facing tragedy to make the decision to donate

if approached by a Donor Coordinator.

One organ donor can save up to eight lives and one tissue donor can help 75 people.

April is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month.

Saskatchewan is recognizing the month by launching a new segment in a public awareness campaign that features Monica Goulet, a Métis woman from Saskatchewan who received a donated kidney from her nephew in Lac La Ronge, Jim Searson.

“Until two years ago, I was just one of many waiting for the gift of life,” Goulet said. “Sadly, far too many lose their lives before they can receive their match. Maybe you too, can save a life by donating.”

People across Canada are marking April 7 as Green Shirt Day to honour the legacy of Logan Boulet. The Humboldt Broncos player inspired almost 150,000 Canadians to become registered organ donors after a fatal bus crash in 2018.

Landmarks and buildings across Canada will also feature green lighting during April. In Saskatchewan, buildings including the T.C. Douglas building plan to Light It Green on April 7, in tandem with Green Shirt Day. It is a reminder of those who have died awaiting a transplant, and a way to express gratitude to organ and tissue donors and their families for giving the greatest gift of all.

For more information on organ and tissue donation in Saskatchewan, or to register as an organ and tissue donor, visit www.givelifesask.ca.

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#Limited time lease offer is from Honda Canada Finance Inc. (HCFI), on approved credit. Lease details: New 2021 Civic 4D LX CVT (FC2F5MEX)/2021 CR-V LX 4WD (RW2H2MES) for a 60-month period/60-month period, for a total of 260/260 weekly payments of $63/$91, leased at 0.99%/2.99% APR. 20,000-kilometre annual allowance (12 cents/km excess charge). Total lease obligation is $16,288/$23,595. Lease payments include freight and PDI of $1,700/$1,870 and applicable fees, but do not include lien registration fee (up to $85 in certain regions) and lien registering agent fee (up to $6), which are due at time of delivery. No down-payment required. Taxes, insurance, license, and registration fees (all of which may vary by region) are extra. β "Honda Bonus" lease or finance cash of $750 on select in-stock 2021 Civic/CR-V models available on lease or finance transactions from HCFI on approved credit only, deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes. Offer ends May 31, 2021 and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Offer available only at participating Honda dealers in Saskatchewan. Offers valid on select new in-stock 2021 vehicles. Models may not be equipped as shown and are for illustration purposes only. Visit Honda.ca or your Honda dealer for details. Visit Hondacanada.ca to learn more about Made-in-Canada.

Re-open Sask Training Subsidy extended Last week the Government of Saskatchewan announced an extension of the Re-Open Saskatchewan Training Subsidy (RSTS) from March 31, 2021 to June 30, 2021.

“This program has been another important tool to support Saskatchewan businesses during the global COVID-19 pandemic,” Immigration and Career Training Minister Jeremy Harrison said.

“With significant uptake to this point, the extension of this program will give more businesses the opportunity to access this program as we continue to work through the pandemic and economic recovery.”

The RSTS was launched on June 18, 2020.

The program operates as a temporary training subsidy to provide businesses with financial support to train employees as they adjust to the impacts of the pandemic and safely align business activities with the Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan.

The RSTS reimburses eligible private-sector employers 100 per cent of employee training costs up to a maximum of $10,000 per business.

Employer response to the program has been positive. From program inception to the end of March 2021, more than 1,000 applications and $4 million in RSTS-funded training have been approved.

For more information, employers can visit www.saskatchewan. c a / t r a i n i n g - s u b s i d y, call 306-964-1005 for Saskatoon and area or 306-787-4677 for Regina and area, or email cansaskjobgrant@gov.sk.ca.