Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Farm advocate, writer Paul Beingessner, 55

Jun. 26, 2009 at 3:13 pm CDT

UPDATED, June 29 — Paul Beingessner, a well-known writer and advocate on Prairie farming issues, died Thursday afternoon in an apparent machinery entanglement on his southern Saskatchewan farm. Beingessner, 55, had been making repairs to a haybine on his farm at Truax, about 80 km southwest of Regina, and was […]

Editors’ Picks: Smithfield to stall on stall-free sows

Jun. 25, 2009 at 4:27 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Editors’ Picks: Monsanto, Dole team on veg breeding

Jun. 23, 2009 at 2:13 pm CDT

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Editors’ Picks: Views mixed on U.S. sow cull

Jun. 11, 2009 at 2:00 am CDT

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New OIE standard on beef seen favouring Canada

Jun. 3, 2009 at 3:14 am CDT

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Editors’ Picks: Automaker offers goat with purchase

Jun. 3, 2009 at 12:33 am CDT

Mitsubishi Motors’ New Zealand operations plan to “support primary productivity” in that country by offering a free goat with every Triton utility vehicle it sells before August. “At MMNZ, we are aware that three years of drought (have) severely depleted sheep and beef populations, so what better time to ‘float […]

By Dave Bedard

Editors’ Picks: Study eyes “sustainable” hen housing

May. 26, 2009 at 2:49 pm CDT

A U.S. coalition of animal welfare researchers, non-government organizations and egg suppliers plans a major study of the “sustainability impacts” of different housing methods for laying hens. The research is to be led by Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis). Fast food chain […]

By Dave Bedard

Editors’ Picks: Dairymen vie for Rotten’s favour

May. 19, 2009 at 3:27 pm CDT

Seeing a star butter pitchman on the rise, dairy producers from New Zealand are looking for a nod from British 1970s punk-rock icon John Lydon, more famously known as Johnny Rotten. Lydon, the 53-year-old vocalist for the Sex Pistols, has since last year appeared in a series of TV and […]

By Dave Bedard

Editors’ Picks: Save land, use oilsands as cemeteries

Apr. 19, 2009 at 4:13 pm CDT

Student researchers from the University of Alberta suggest Canadian industries, such as oilsands companies, consider preserving the country’s useable land base by helping rejuvenate used land as “environmentally friendly cemeteries.” The students, working on a class project in the U of A’s department of renewable resources, researched the viability of […]

By Dave Bedard

Sask. seeks buyers for Thomson Meats

Apr. 14, 2009 at 5:39 pm CDT

The Saskatchewan government plans to ramp up its efforts to shed the assets of its cash-losing meat processing plant at Melfort. “We believe that government has no role in owning a meat processing plant,” Ag Minister Bob Bjornerud said in a release Tuesday, announcing the province’s plans to find buyers […]

By Dave Bedard