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There was a news release issued in late 2012 stating that for the sake of security, some valuable base seeds used in the agricultural communi-ties in the Middle East had been shipped to Norway to be included in the world’s safe and secure seed storage vaults. There are now more than 750,000 varieties of seeds representing life itself, frozen, labelled and secured.

The seeds were sent there as a “just in case” backup in the event that a new scorched earth attack by some non-thinking terrorist group of the week won’t put future agricultural endeavours in that part of the world in total jeopardy.

Seeds from Asia, North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia, South Pacifi c and the Caribbean have been tested and tucked away by a dedicated international core

of offi cials who understand the importance of what they are doing. They have a care-taker and a plan in the event of devastation and destruction.

This news release brought about a few ad-ditional thoughts we’d like to share.

The fi rst is that while this world is riddled with millions of people who are doing their best to destroy it, there is a fi rm cadre of those who are equally intent on preserving it and making it even better. We can only hope the good guys are still outnumbering the bad guys, but sometimes we question the ratio.

We fi nd it interesting to note that while there are many out there who are ill-intentioned and lacking in basic education, there are many who are progressive and like-minded in their de-sire to preserve and protect what they know and see as being vital elements to life itself ,whether it be clean air,

good water or seeds to plant to grow food. These people are smart enough to ignore lan-guage barriers, tribal feuds, political differences and cultural clashes long enough to do what they know has to be done. They don’t quibble over who is in charge. They just ensure that the basics are covered.

In the meantime, while they are doing that job ... the current world of agriculture as we recognize it, is trying to feed over six billion people.

So our second thought is one of future production.

There is less land and less fresh water, but thanks to better production methods and scientifi c research, we’ve been able to keep pace. Each farmer is able to feed more

and more with each harvest, thanks to advancement in those seeds, equipment, and production techniques.

What holds us up and what prevents us from feed-ing the starving people hasn’t much to do with production and everything to do with politics, education and trans-portation.

Getting our food surplus to those who desperately need it is a logistical, political and economic nightmare.

Who is paying the pro-ducer for it and how can it be transported? Who is going to pay for that? Once it arrives, who can assure it gets distributed to those who most need it? Who is strong enough to remove the corrupt politicians and military from

the equations? North American pro-

ducers alone could almost feed the world with what we know and what we can do in our fi elds. Getting the food to those who need it though, and being compensated well enough to enable the pro-duction cycle to continue is beyond us.

Like the Norwegian-based seed storage program, this other phase of agriculture should be above political, military and economic power ... but it isn’t and probably never will be.

That’s why we can only keep hoping that the good guys will continue to outnum-ber the bad guys. c

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A total of 38 Saskatch-ewan crop-related research projects have received $6.5 million in federal and pro-vincial funding support.

The announcement was made in mid-January by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Saskatchewan’s Agricul-ture Minister Lyle Stewart.

“Crop research being done in Saskatchewan helps keep Canadian agriculture growing and contributing to a strong economy,” Ritz said. “These projects will help improve methods of crop disease control and weather tolerance that will make Saskatchewan farmers more productive and profi table.”

Stewart pointed out that “Saskatchewan has a reputation as a leader in crop production and research and these new projects will help to ensure this continues to be the case. These projects will help to achieve goals set out in our growth plan and help our farmers meet the growing world demand for safe, reliable agriculture products.”

Some of the crop-related projects that will receive the government funding this year include

such things as weed man-agement, wheat yield gains, genetic mapping of blackleg disease in canola and building disease resis-tance in cereals and pulses.

Other areas of research will include improvements in the nutritional value of oats; new technologies to assess sprout damage in wheat; herbicide toler-ance in mustard varieties; addressing genetic and disease obstacles to canary seed production and meth-ods to control and eradicate clubroot in canola.

Funding for the proj-ects will be provided from the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development

Fund (ADF) and is part of a record $20 million provincial agriculture re-search budget that was set for 2012-13, which is an increase of more than 50 per cent since 2007. More than $57 million in research project funding has been provided through ADF since then.

The investment will assist Saskatchewan in establishing the province as an international leader in biosciences, increasing crop production by 10 mil-lion tonnes and increasing provincial agriculture ex-ports by $5 billion by 2020, part of the government Plan for Growth mandate.

The project funding will help to leverage addi-tional third-party funding of more than $8.4 million. It was noted that Western Grains Research Founda-tion, Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Saskatchewan Canola Development Com-mission, Saskatchewan Oat Development Commission and the Canaryseed De-velopment Commission of Saskatchewan are a few of the organizations that are signing on as partners on

these ADF projects. “Research has been

vital to the growth of the canola industry,” said Brett Halstead, chairman of the SaskCanola Committee. “We appreciate the fund-ing and look forward to the benefi ts it will create for canola producers in the future.”

Similar words of en-couragement were ad-vanced by Dwayne An-derson, chairman of the Saskatchewan Oat De-

velopment Commission; Gerrid Gust, chairman of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers, and Dave Sefton, chairman of the Western Grains Research Foundation.

Funding for the ADF directed projects is pro-vided under Growing For-ward, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. Under Growing Forward 2, the governments will continue to support the develop

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The nominations are in and the judges are now into their contemplative mode as they work toward selecting southeast Saskatchewan’s Farm Family of the Year.

The award will be pre-sented on Feb. 28 during the annual salute to agricultural

producers by the City of Este-van, the Estevan Chamber of Commerce and the Estevan Exhibition Association, all major sponsors of Farmer Appreciation Day.

Alf Tide, chairman of the appreciation dinner which usually attracts over 300 people to the Days Inn Plaza every year, said a last minute change was made

to the entertainment lineup with the sudden and tragic passing of well-known Sas-katchewan entertainer Les Pavelick, alias, Metro who was slated to perform for an Energy City audience that evening. Pavelick, 71, passed away at his winter base in Yuma, Arizona and Tide said it was doubly unfortunate since the local organizing

committee had been trying to get him booked for the past three years, but had never been successful.

They have now booked stand-up comedian Tom Liske of Saskatoon, a veteran jokester who has performed on Just for Laughs shows and offers his audience a full slate of family friendly humorous observations on life as well as a full complement of songs and hilarious stories.

Liske has performed at such well-known venues as the Calgary Comedy Festival as a headliner as well as Ed-monton’s Comedy Factory and has appeared alongside the Smothers Brothers and Brent Butt. It is noted that he even spent a good part of his professional career in Los Angeles, refi ning his “fi sh out of water” lifestyle.

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⇠Pg 4 He said he had spent a good deal of time in and around Estevan and was eager to get here again. It had never worked out, never been possible, until this year. We were all excit-ed. In fact Les had offered to come to Estevan a couple of days early so he could help some local groups do some fundraising for their causes. He’d been doing a lot of that lately. In fact he had just told some friends he was so proud to claim he had helped various or-ganizations raise over $1 million. Then he’s gone ...

heart attack, I believe. It’s so sad,” said Tide.

“But on a positive note, Tom Liske comes highly recommended. Some of our committee members have seen him work and they’re anxious to get him here.”

Tide said the keynote speakers for the dinner will be Jim Reiter, minister of Municipal Affairs and Government Relations and former Minister of High-ways and Infrastructure along with David Marit, president of the Saskatch-ewan Association of Rural

Municipalities for the past six years.

Reiter (MLA for Ro-setown-Elrose) and Marit, who hails from the RM of Willow Bunch, know each other pretty well, having worked together on rural issues for many years, so it could be an interesting evening from that side of it,” said Tide.

The members of the Browning 4-H Beef Club who have won awards for public speaking will be fea-tured during the program as well.

“Of course one high-

light will be the naming of the Farm Family of the Year for the 48th year. I believe the committee has at least four very worthy nominees to assess. I’ve seen the names and I’d hate to have

to be the one to make a deci-sion because they all have great credentials. We’ll just have to wait and see,” said Tide. Nominations closed on the last day of January.

They’ve had the set

back with the loss of Pavelick and his Metro characterization, but the show must go on and the organizing committee is very excited about this year’s event.

Saddened by untimely death of scheduled entertainers, but the show will go on

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In the summary of the projects that are to receive the federal and provincial funding support, it was reported that research of

cereal crops will receive just under $2.2 million, oil-seeds research will receive $1.845 million in assistance while pulses will garner $1.454 million. Research into other crops and general projects will pick up just over $907,000 in funding support.

Broken down into funding support by agency or organization, it was noted that the projects led by the University of Sas-katchewan will receive the lion’s share of the support. The U of S researchers will get nearly $4.02 million of the project dollars fol-

lowed by $792,000 going to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and $500,000 for the Flax Council of Canada while Alliance Grain Trad-ers will lead research that is receiving $250,000 in government support.

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