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