Farmscape for June 18, 2025

Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan is now accepting nominations for its 2025 Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan Champion Award.
Each year Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan recognizes an individual who has taken the initiative to engage or educate consumers about food and farming in Saskatchewan.
Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan Executive Director Clinton Monchuk says the annual Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan Champion Award celebrates those who are helping bridge the gap between those involved in food production and consumers.

Quote-Clinton Monchuk-Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan:
If you go back to when Canada was formed in Confederation, way back over 150 years ago, 80 percent of the population lived in a rural setting and that has flipped.
Now, instead of having 80 percent of the population living in a rural setting, you only have 20 percent that live in a rural setting.
Even within that, a lot of the individuals who live in a rural setting do not actually have anything to do with agriculture.
They might be in minding or forestry or some other profession.
As a result of that, when we look at the hard numbers here in this country, only 1.6 percent of the population is activity engaged in primary agriculture, a farmer or a rancher.
As a result, as we remove generation from generation from this farm or ranch setting, a lot of those individuals no longer have a trusted source to talk to about what's going on with genetically modified foods or biotechnology or intensive livestock operations and that's where we need to do a better job of telling our story.
Make sure those people, that other 98.4 percent of the population understand what we do on our farms and ranches so then, as a result of that, you have less of these questions that come up, you have better policies for our agriculture and food in our country and you just have a stronger agriculture community.

For information or to access the nomination form visit farmfoodcaresk.org.
The nomination deadline is August 31st.
For more visit Farmscape.Ca.
Bruce Cochrane.

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