By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Monday October 18, 2021

Oct 18, 2021 | 12:30 PM

MELFORT, Sask. — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is giving $1.5 million to 88 community groups across Canada to support rural capital projects.

The AgriSpirit Fund awarded between $5,000 and $25,000 for various community improvement initiatives in cities, towns, or Indigenous communities with fewer than 150,000 people.

Over the past 18 years, the FCC AgriSpirit Fund has supported roughly 1,400 projects.

The next application period opens Mar. 1.

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G3 Canada is supporting health through a major charitable donation.

Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation, which raises money to fund health-care facilities in southwest Saskatchewan, will receive $10,000 from the grain company.

Due to the pandemic, the company was unable to hold a grand opening event for G3 Swift Current when it opened this past summer.

G3 CEO Don Chapman said it was decided to give money to the foundation.

“We’re pleased these funds can be directed to an important cause like funding health-care services and facilities for our families, neighbours, and customers,” Chapman said in a news release.

G3’s donation will be used to match donations from the community during a fundraiser for a new Telemetry System for the Cypress Regional Hospital.

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The management of Olymel has announced the sudden passing of its president and CEO, Réjean Nadeau.

Nadeau succumbed to a sudden and virulent cancer on Oct. 14 at the age of 71 years old.

Olymel senior vice-president Paul Beauchamp praised Nadeau’s work.

“Under his leadership Olymel grew into the largest processor in the Canadian agri-food industry, and became a universally recognized flagship Quebec company,” Beauchamp said.

Since taking the helm in 1996, Nadeau grew the company and expanded its operations in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick through multiple partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions in the pork and poultry sectors.

Olymel’s senior vice-president of operations Yanick Gervais has assumed the duties of CEO.

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