Bob Tyler and Grant Devine are the newest members of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame (submitted photo/Ministry of Agriculture)

By Alice McFarlane

Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame 2021

2021 inductees to the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame

Jan 12, 2022 | 2:43 PM

MELFORT, Sask. — Four individuals who have made a significant contribution to crop science, public policy, livestock development and value-added agriculture are the newest members of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame.

Grant Devine, Rick Holm, Bill Jameson, and Bob Tyler were announced as the 2021 inductees at the Western Canadian Crop Production Show.

Devine and Tyler were in attendance for the announcement yesterday.

Devine was premier of Saskatchewan from 1982 to 1991. As an agricultural economist, Devine is a supporter of value-added agriculture. He said it didn’t make sense to ship crops long distances for processing.

“Think of all the carbon that’s going in the air and all those transactions. If you really want to become more efficient, you want to get the producer closer to the consumer and some of that is taking place right here,” Devine said. “There’s an awful lot of economic things that you can do when you start to add value.”

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Devine was also involved in setting policies on guaranteed loans for young farmers and provincewide natural gas. He was part of the establishment of Ag-West Bio. He was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2015.

Bob Tyler is often referred to as the father of value-added pulse processing in Saskatchewan.

He has been involved in teaching, research, and extension at the University of Saskatchewan. He worked on crop utilization, protein and starch functionality, food processing and product development.

Tyler said being able to see his work benefit people is rewarding.

“You can publish 100 papers, but you never really know if anybody reads them. You do now because you got all kinds of indices. It’s not hard to put a lot of effort into what you enjoy doing,” Tyler said.

Rick Holm is a former director of the Crop Development Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. He helped expand the pulse lab and played a key role in the commercialization of Clearfield wheat and lentils

Bill Jameson is a founding partner of JGL Livestock. He held many provincial and national leadership positions in the cattle sector and is also mentoring the next generation of leaders.

The four men will be inducted in the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame on Apr. 9 during a dinner and ceremony at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon, Sask.

They will be joined by members of the 2020 Hall of Fame class who were not able to have its ceremony last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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