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More consumers buying ground beef
Ever changing consumer demand and consumption is challenging the beef sector.During the COVID-19 pandemic, more Canadians are stocking up their deep freezers with ground beef.Canada Beef President Mic...
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La Ronge man taken by COVID-19 remembered as great father, outdoorsman
Ron Mackay's family doesn't want him to be remembered for the way he was taken from this world, but for the way he lived in it and the way he loved it.The 85-year-old former owner of Red's Camps in La...
Apr 08, 2020 Ron Mackay is pictured here at Red's Camps in La Ronge, Sask. (Lisa Saelhof/Submitted)
Stolen semi-truck, loaded with canola, goes viral on social media
The President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalites (SARM) says a story about a stolen semi-truck loaded with canola, speaks to the level of crime happening in rural Saskatchewan.Ray ...
Apr 08, 2020 A photo of this truck, stolen near Leask. (Facebook)
How to try to avoid cross contamination – advice from RUH’s head of clinical microbiology
What COVID-19 has taught everybody is that the virus is invisible - you can't see it - but it can be present in an individual or on a surface, and your hands can be the vector which transmits it, and ...
Apr 08, 2020 Masks and gloves available to the public. Lara Fominoff/CKOM
Study says cattle can handle higher sulphate levels in water
Beef cattle are able to tolerate higher levels of sulphates in drinking water than previously thought. USask Dr. Greg Penner tells Alice McFarlane with Ag Access about the first phase of a four-year s...
Apr 08, 2020 Dr. Greg Penner is an associate professor in the USask Department of Animal and Poultry Science. (submitted photo/USask)
Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday April 8, 2020
Maple Leaf Foods has suspended operations at its Brampton, Ont. poultry plant starting today after three employees tested positive for COVID-19.The company said the decision was made in consultation w...
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89-year-old Riders super fan in isolation ‘floored’ with birthday wishes
After being isolated for more than three weeks, lifelong Saskatchewan Roughriders fan Ethel Mongovius wasn't sure how her 89th birthday would go.But through the power of social media, her birthday on ...
Apr 07, 2020 Ethel Mongovius received quite the surprise on her 89th birthday, with an Upper Deck card tweeted out by the company on April 6, 2020. (Twitter/Upper Deck)
Pandemic causes unprecedented hog market volatility
COVID-19 is responsible for a level of hog market volatility that hasn't been seen in 20 years.HAMS Marketing Services director of risk management Tyler Fulton said the pandemic has fueled uncertainty...
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Friendship grows into a flour business
Erin Dancey and Sarah Stautman became friends through their shared love of agriculture, raising animals, growing food, and gardening.Their entrepreneurial spirit pushed them to start a business from t...
Apr 07, 2020 Sarah Strautman (left) and Erin Dancey are owners of Living Sky Farms. (Submitted photo/Erin Dancey)
Ex-Swift Current Broncos star Colby Cave in medically induced coma
Former Swift Current Broncos captain Colby Cave has been placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a brain bleed.Cave, a 25-year-old from Battleford, split last season between the NHL's Edmon...
Apr 07, 2020 Colby Cave. (Canadian Press)