Sask Wheat Latest Producer Organization To Support BeGrainSafe

 

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) is pleased to announce that the Sask Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) is the latest producer organization to support BeGrainSafe, CASA’s grain safety program. Sask Wheat has committed $10,000 a year for the next three years.

 

“Producer support of this program is vital,” says Marcel Hacault, CASA’s Executive Director. “Sask Wheat, along with the other BeGrainSafe supporters, have a true understanding of the dangers farmers face when working with moving grain.”

 

BeGrainSafe, a new project focusing on preventing grain entrapment, launched in Brandon, Manitoba in January. The program will focus on the three Prairie Provinces in its initial phase and will provide general grain hazard awareness to the public, focused rescue training to first responders and will be available for workplaces that want to develop in-depth grain entrapment prevention and emergency plans.

 

“Keeping farmers and their families safe year round is so important to Sask Wheat and everyone in Saskatchewan’s agriculture community,” says Sask Wheat Chair Bill Gehl. “We know too many families that have been hurt by unfortunate farm accidents. By supporting the BeGrainSafe program, we hope to keep farm families safe by raising the awareness of the dangers that exist on the farm while also giving first responders the training they need to help farmers in emergency situations.”

 

Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.