Canada's Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced $6.6 million in support today for innovative livestock and forage research being conducted in the province.
The commitment provides funding over the next five years to the University of Saskatchewan's Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence (LFCE), an organization that focuses on beef, bison and forage research in support of the continued growth of the industry. The funding, under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP), was announced at the LFCE's Summer Field Day presented by Canadian Western Agribition.
The LFCE is a research, teaching, and knowledge transfer facility that links research and innovation across the livestock production chain, and enables innovative feedlot, cow-calf and veterinarian research and extension. Research, innovation, and knowledge transfer are essential to identifying and supporting solutions to the challenges facing Saskatchewan's livestock sector which is itself a vital part of the provincial agriculture industry. This also contributes to achieving Saskatchewan's Growth Plan goal of increasing provincial livestock cash receipts to $3 billion by the end of this decade.
