Local farmer and business make donates to Farm Stress Line

Aug 24, 2022

The Farm Stress Line in Saskatchewan will be receiving a bit of a financial boost from the southwest.

Last Friday during the Grain Rush Auction hosted on CKSW 570 and CJSN 1490, Riverhurst's Ron Mattus won the meal with a $500 donation to the Regina-based charity.

There were a pair of reasons why he made the winning bid.

"To take the stress out of the cook," he said jokingly. "We donate and buy stuff locally here all the time, so this is just something different. It covers all farmers."

Mattus runs Antelope Creek Enterprises Ltd. out of the Central Butte area and has been farming since 1977. This year this crew is harvesting 13,000 acres of cropland that includes durum, canola, and lentils.

Swift Current's Ponderosa Ag Sales Ltd. also jumped on board matching the donation to the charity that's been around since the 1990s.

"I think it's a good way to give back, " said Trevor Hoffman, the manager for Ponderosa Ag Sales Ltd. "We've been supported well by the locals, so it's our turn to give back."

Hoffman has been surprised by strong sales numbers of late with harvest in the southwest ranging anywhere from good to poor

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