Wes Friesen
Topigs Welcomes New Team MemberTopigs Norsvin Canada announced recently that effective September 1, 2022, Wes Friesen will join its staff as Alberta Business Development Representative, based out of the Southern Alberta region. In his new role, Wes will be focused on Business Development and customer support in Alberta, Montana & Saskatchewan.Wes is well
Red Deer Swine Technology WorkshopMark your calendars for Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop, which will take place Wednesday October 19th at the Cambridge Red Deer Hotel & Conference Centre (formally the Sheraton) in Red Deer.With doors opening, registration and booth visits starting at 8am, then a full one day agenda.Some featured topics: Knowing your
When you have grown up on a farm in the 1960s and ‘70s it is almost beyond belief the changes in farming we see today. It was a mixed farm for me, and that meant pigs and grain. In my youth I hauled a lot of ground grain to feed the pigs using cleaned five-gallon pails that
In the middle of the night in a small farming community, the two-story house of a young family caught fire. Quickly everyone made their way through the smoke-filled house out to the front yard. Everyone except a five-year-old boy. The father looked up to the boy’s room and saw his son crying at the
The National Pork Producers Council is encouraging farmers to highlight October 11, the day the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the constitutional challenge of California’s Proposition 12.The Supreme Court case opposing Prop 12 was the recent focus of a media roundtable hosted by the NPPC about the case, filed by the NPPC and the
The idea that the federal government might be looking to limit fertilizer use on the farm has at best made farmers antsy, if not outright angry. Recently, Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau stated that farmers need not fear. Earlier this month she said it’s not about reducing emissions caused by fertilizer, or of limiting the use
Interest groups are weaponizing science to support a narrative that fits their biased view of what farmers should and shouldn’t doMost Canadians have never been on a farm, let alone lived on one, which makes more than 98 per cent of our population agriculturally illiterate. For many Canadians, crop production is an unknown concept. Because
Organizers of the 23rd annual Red Deer Swine Technology Workshop have set the table for their first live presentation since 2019. Cancelled outright in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the 22nd-annual workshop was put off to 2021, and then held online rather than in person. This year, the workshop is back live on October 19th, returning from
Take all of the gratitude, and find a way to make a differenceSo what will you do this year to express your thankfulness not only on Thanksgiving Day but all year around?Yes, it’s October 10 this year when Canadians officially mark Thanksgiving Day but my question is what does it mean to you? Over
What is a farmer’s relationship with environmental and animal welfare certification programs? Would it be right to say that it’s complicated? On one hand, farmers feel targeted by those in the activist community who reject the realities of modern agriculture. No genetically modified anything. No fertilizer. No pesticides. Small holdings with a few chickens,
