Kap demo farm secures new tenant: Rogers Crop Enterprises to focus on cash crops.

• Date: 01 April 2019
• Author: Kelly, Lindsay

Anew tenant has taken up residence at the Kapuskasing Demonstration Farm, with plans to eventually purchase the acreage and expand his successful cash-cropping business.

Last summer, Jim Rogers took over the lease at the demonstration farm, relocating his family and his business, Rogers Crop Enterprises, to Kapuskasing from North Battleford, Sask.

Finding a new farmer so quickly after the former tenant broke his lease last April was welcome news for the community, said Guylain Baril, who heads up Kapuskasing's economic development department.

And the family has integrated well into the area.

"They're a good addition to our community," Baril said. "They're very engaged, they believe in small communities, and they're very good citizens and very good tenants for the Town of Kapuskasing."

After farming operations ceased at the facility--a former agricultural research farm established by the federal government in 1916--the Kapuskasing Economic Development Corp...