Doug Freeman, Dean, Western College of Veterinary Medicine and Mary Buhr, Dean, College of Agriculture and Bioresources. (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

By Alice McFarlane

Agribition 2019

Agribition supports livestock research centre

Nov 28, 2019 | 1:20 PM

Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) announced a financial contribution to a University of Saskatchewan (USask) research facility.

CWA will provide the funding over the next 10 years to the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence (LFCE).

Doug Freeman is the dean of the USask Western College of Veterinary Medicine. He called it a major gift.

“We are very grateful. It will have a huge impact of our operation,” he said. “We’re still building facilities so major gifts like this are going to our capital project and also sponsorship of our annual field day.”

USask College of Agriculture and Bioresources Dean Mary Buhr said it’s a credit to the strength of the partnerships that have been created.

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She said research is crucial to the livestock industry.

“We are getting new pests, new diseases, new market challenges. Consumers are wanting different things all of the time. We need to be very aware of what we are doing within our environment,” she said. “There’s a constant need for innovative information that is going to address the issues of today and for generations to come.”

CWA President Chris Lees said the future of the livestock industry in Saskatchewan and Canada is at the centre of what makes Agribition successful.

“It’s important that CWA contributes to the industry and ensures producers here are benefiting from the best research and science being done anywhere in the world,” he said.

CWA’s partnership with the LFCE will also feature the two organizations co-operating on advocacy and promotion of the beef sector, including a tour of the facility by CWA international guests on Saturday.

The LFCE is located southeast of Saskatoon and includes a 1,500 head feedlot, forage-cow calf facility, livestock research unit, a production cow herd with more than 400 breeding animals and 39 quarters of land.

The announcement was made at Agribition this morning.

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