Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan has opened nominations for its annual Champion Award. Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan is now receiving nominations for its 2025 Champion Award, an annual event designed to recognize a person or organization who strives to engage consumers about agriculture and helps farmers build public trust in our food production system.
Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan Executive Director Clinton Monchuk says sometimes people go unnoticed and this is something we can do to showcase those who have gone above and beyond.
Clip-Clinton Monchuk-Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan:
We're now living in a society that is becoming less and less knowledgeable about primary food production so, when you look forward into the future and you see the writing on the wall that the farming population is likely going to get less and less and less over time, we want to make that those who are outside of farming understand more about what we are doing in farming.
Those who are in policy making positions do not fully understand primary agriculture, what ever it happens to be, if you're a grain farmer or a cattle rancher involved in animal agriculture in some way. That's why trying to get out and make sure that consumers fully understand what we're doing and have the opportunity to ask questions and get responses from farmers, ranchers, researchers, who ever in the agriculture industry, making sure that science based thought out approaches to the agriculture industry are taken as opposed to public perception that is not always right.
That's really the implication of this, that we want to make sure people to understand what we're doing so we can keep on doing what we do best and that's grow food.
Nomination forms can be found at farmfoodcaresk.org and anyone is eligible to submit a nomination but nominees must reside in Saskatchewan.
The deadline for nominations is August 31st.
Source : Farmscape.ca