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By Angie Rolheiser

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Friday, Sept. 27

Sep 27, 2019 | 11:21 AM

Livestock producers have a new financing option.

The new Saskatchewan Livestock Finance Co-operative has been launched this week.

General manager, Terry Wensley said the new co-op has been set up to replace the former Livestock Loan Guarantee Program, previously operated by the provincial government.

“We are taking great care to ensure this program will meet and hopefully exceed expectation of Saskatchewan livestock producers,” Wensley said. “We expect this program will be very competitive and even more competitive than the existing program.”

New members are being taken at this time as well as previous.

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Saskatchewan farmers made harvest progress this past week despite some rain.

Provincial crops analyst Shannon Friesen said almost 40 per cent of the crop has been combined.

“That’s up from 23 per cent last week, but we do remain below the five year average of 62 per cent,” Friesen said.

Most crops are being dried and aerated due to being tough and damp, according to Friesen.

Some places in the east got up to three or four inches of rain.

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McDonald’s is finally taking a nibble of the plant-based burger.

The fast-food giant says it will sell the P-L-T, or the plant, lettuce and tomato burger for 12 weeks in 28 restaurants in southwestern Ontario by the end of the month.

McDonald’s says it developed a special recipe using burgers from Beyond Meat, the California-based company that makes so-called “meat” from pea protein, canola oil, beet juice and other ingredients.

The small-market test is rolling out about six months after rival Burger King began testing the plant-based Impossible Foods burger, a rival to Beyond Meat.

It’s now selling the Impossible Whopper.

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angie.rolheiser@jpbg.ca

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