The happy couple are prolific progenitors, and there is no law against child labour in the bug world. Millions of little workers made out of garbage!

Nearly 300 acres of fair-good native pasture available for 2024 cow/calf operation.

• Offers currently at $1.50/unit/day + flat $2500 fence depreciation surcharge (effective average $1.55/unit day)
• Bids close May 17 following pasture condition assessment
• Location is in the Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program eligibility area
• No sub-lease - cattle owners only
• New 4 wire fence 4-5 posts 2023
• Cross fenced with neighbour pasture 200 acres our side - 100 acres neighbour
• Neighbour part of the deal
• Renter responsible for herd supervision, minerals & fence maintenance
• Insurance certificate required
• Arm River runs through
• Good direct highway access to Hwy 11
• Fenced loading corral
• Season third week July - Oct 1, stocking rate dependent on precipitation & pasture condition.
• Historically supported 40 – 55 pair ~ 72 days:
• 3978 unit/days 2020
• 2833 unit/days 2021
• 3796 unit/days 2022
• 3780 unit days 2023
• Prefer more cows less days.
• We had >150 pair + a few bulls and hamburger cows in for a few weeks 2023.
• No bare spots, good litter cover, good bush shade

It's a difficult challenge to overcome the "optics" necessary to bring forward a proposal in an infrastructure space such as waste management. The gatekeepers on government staff look at "organizational capacity," a purely superficial consideration built largely on BS that tends to direct RFP's for solutions to existing organizations that function a lot like government, and do not even maintain a large local footprint. They will typically staff a local office with an over-worked and underpaid rep, tied back to a parent organization that is not even Canadian.

That practice structurally excludes innovation.

Our "insects as energy" solution is a case-study in point. It was obvious from the outset that shipping  the Class A biosolids from the CRD plant for consumption in the LaFarge cement plant on the mainland was not only CO2e positive, but not fault tolerant and it was going to be a fail. We said so at the time. It did, and now biosolids are being landfilled, with a predictable public push-back.

This time around maybe we can convince someone that the skill set developed on a farm in financing,  building and operating industrial process equipment that handles large volume high-tonnage grain, and raising and transporting livestock to market is fully transferable to a waste management infrastructure project that is basically a farm.

We don't need to be a multi-national.

Here is a playlist of water conditions on the pasture.

Fire has always been a natural feature of the prairie landscape, and a controlled burn is one of the most effective ways to avoid the massive destruction of uncontrollable wildfire. It's also one of the only feasible ways to control encroachment of woody plants into grassland during drought conditions. Species like sage will out-compete native forage species and cattle will not eat them, which increases forage demand on the remaining areas of grassland. A controlled burn will not only maintain the forage productivity of the range, it will mitigate the potential for wildfire by reducing the available fuel load.