Nuffielders In The News!
Family tackles new business venture head-on
From Producer.com
By WILLIAM DEKAY, Saskatoon Newsroom
June 9, 2011
Lyndon Cote hops and hustles across the field like a jackrabbit.
The 11-year-old cradles a tray of sweet corn seedlings fresh from the greenhouse. Within minutes, the three-week-old hybrid corn plants are transplanted into neat rows in raised beds to soak up the sun and water.
Lyndon’s brother, two sisters and parents have a spring in their step and a satisfied smile on their faces as they plant.
The family has started building a high quality business called Tierra Del Sol (Land of the Sun), focusing this year on vegetable production….
Waste fuels energy system
From Producer.com (By Barb Glen, Lethbridge bureau – April 28, 2011)
Chris Perry calls it Grow the Energy Circle Ltd.
It’s Grow-tec, for short.
The fourth generation southern Alberta farmer is preparing to embark on a renewable energy project that will produce electricity, fertilizer and heat from cull potatoes and other biodegradable waste.
Material produced from this process will be returned to the land or used in other green projects.
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Continuing the Legacy
(This article appeared in “The Furrow” – March, 2011)
The sisters are going to be all right; their lives are back on track. Suzanne is pursuing a career in fashion in Edmonton, Alta. Jeanelle and Sarah are both enrolled in programs at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Sask. Lynn is operating the family farm near St. Vincent, Alta., and Leona is heading off on a three-continent agricultural research study through a Nuffield Canada Scholarship. The five sisters endured one of the most difficult tragedies a family can go through and despite everything, kept their family farm largely intact. If their parents, Jean and Joanne Dargis, were still alive they would be very proud…
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Well Grounded
(This article appeared in The Guardian, March 26, 2011)
Organic farmer Raymond Loo heavily praised as leader in producing healthy food with minimal impact to environment.
Raymond Loo recalls how an enraged farmer flew up his driveway years ago to let loose.
Loo (pronounced Low), 49, of Pleasant Valley was spreading sodium bicarbonate and corn oil over his potatoes to help control blight.
The incensed driver, a conventional potato farmer, thought Loo was spraying chemicals just like other farmers but trying to do so on the sly while passing himself off as an organic farmer.
When the fuming farmer finished his rant, Loo calmly explained how he could make biscuits with what he was using for spray.