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Saskatchewan Urged To Develop More Predictable Permitting For ILO's

The Saskatchewan Stock Growers covered a lot of business during their Annual General Meeting this week.

Among the resolutions passed, members called on the province to work with municipalities and livestock associations to develop a more predictable permitting process for intensive livestock operations.

They also want to see the province work with the federal government and other provincial governments to remove interprovincial barriers to trade of provincially-inspected beef.

Another resolution called on the province to offer incentives to attract processing and value-added facilities to Saskatchewan.

The Stock Growers also called on the province to use the Accelerated Site Closure Plan to clean up orphan oil wells;

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Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

Video: Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.