Insights and Stories on University Of Saskatchewan

Report highlights optimism, resignation in agriculture sector

Jul. 19, 2024 at 3:40 pm CDT

A troublesome policy and regulatory environment, extreme weather, and trade barriers are the issues keeping Canadian agriculture professionals awake at night. That’s according to a joint report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the University of Saskatchewan’s Global Institute for Food Security on risk in Canada’s agrifood system.

LFCE Field Day covers everything from pneumonia to drought

Jun. 18, 2024 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Prairie soil scientist and author Les Henry, 83

Jun. 14, 2024 at 7:42 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

At Ag in Motion: 3D printer takes aim at food ingredients

Jul. 19, 2023 at 5:06 pm CDT

By Becky Zimmer

Automated ag skills program developed for Saskatchewan workforce

May. 20, 2022 at 8:28 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

B.C. doubling seat count at Saskatchewan vet college

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:42 am CDT

The interprovincial cost-sharing agreement supporting the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) will now allow for twice as many students from British Columbia. The B.C. government and the U of S on Monday announced the province will now put up almost $10.7 million to double the number […]

By Dave Bedard

Saskatchewan to incentivize rural vet techs

Apr. 15, 2021 at 2:19 am CDT

Saskatchewan plans to clear a few new paths for veterinary technologists and veterinarians in training to take up work in underserved rural areas. The province on Tuesday announced the two-year registered veterinary technologist program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic will offer a distance delivery option, starting this fall, for vet techs to […]

By Dave Bedard

New dean of agriculture named for U of S

May. 14, 2020 at 7:00 pm CDT

One of Western Canada’s major post-secondary ag institutions will get a new hand at the wheel this summer. The University of Saskatchewan announced Wednesday it has named soil science professor Angela Bedard-Haughn as the dean for its College of Agriculture and Bioresources for a five-year term starting Aug. 15. Raised […]

By GFM Staff

VIDO-InterVac joins swine fever fight

Jan. 13, 2020 at 6:43 am CST

The University of Saskatchewan’s vaccine research and development arm is set to become Canada’s first non-government agency to work with the African swine fever virus. Saskatoon-based Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) will start work with the virus this month at its Containment Level 3-Agriculture (CL3-Ag) facility, the […]

By GFM Staff

Animal science professor Red Williams, 93

Mar. 30, 2018 at 2:38 am CDT

Memorial services will be held “at a later date” for renowned Prairie animal science professor Charles “Red” Williams, who died Monday at age 93 leaving a legacy of work in livestock care and ag extension. Williams, born in Regina and raised on farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta, served in the […]

By Staff

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Insights and Stories on University Of Saskatchewan

Report highlights optimism, resignation in agriculture sector

LFCE Field Day covers everything from pneumonia to drought

Prairie soil scientist and author Les Henry, 83

At Ag in Motion: 3D printer takes aim at food ingredients

Automated ag skills program developed for Saskatchewan workforce

B.C. doubling seat count at Saskatchewan vet college

Saskatchewan to incentivize rural vet techs

New dean of agriculture named for U of S

VIDO-InterVac joins swine fever fight

Animal science professor Red Williams, 93

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