Saskatchewan has made a deal with the federal government to take over research farms at Indian Head and Scott.
The federal agriculture department announced recently that is plans to close them but the were cries of protest frin farners,
The deal will not involve continuation of organic farming research at Swift Current.
That loss has been decried by the National Farmers Union which said decades of work to establish and maintain organic farming standards there is being lost.
Saskatchewan and the feds signed a memorandum of understanding for the deal during the recent annual federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meeting in Halifax.
Both research farms have been operating for more than 100 years..
The MOU does not include reinstating the organic program at Swift Current.
There was no word about whether similar federal-provincial deals are in the works for other research stations the federal government intends to close.
They include food safety research at Guelph and research stations at Nappan, N.S., and Portage la Prairie, Man., and three research and development centres at Quebec City and Lacombe, Alta.
