If you agreed with him and his positions or not or even never met him as I had not, though I certainly knew of all his work on grain transportation. It is still very sad to see someone who was so involved and passionate about the industry pass on untimely.
We need more involved passionate people of his ilk in this industry.
Machinery accident kills farm advocate Paul Beingessner
Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2009 | 8:40 AM CT Comments15Recommend62CBC News
Paul Beingessner was a candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections in 2008. (Save My CWB)A farm accident in southern Saskatchewan has claimed the life of Paul Beingessner, known as a passionate advocate for farmers having a voice in grain transportation.
Beingessner, 55, died Thursday at his home near Truax, 83 kilometres southwest of Regina.
According to the RCMP, he had been attempting to repair a haybine when he got pulled into the equipment.
Beingessner was one of a group of farmers who established the first shortline railway in the province — called Southern Rails Co-operative — when the major railways were preparing to abandon rail lines that farmers used.
He was a third-generation grain and livestock farmer who also wrote a weekly farm column and opinion pieces for several publications.
Former politician Judy Bradley, who was the minister of highways and transportation in the Roy Romanow government, remembered Beingessner as a man politicians listened to.
"He was always well-researched with the information he came with and he was always very respectful," she said. "He listened to other views also. But he had a tremendous passion and you did want to listen to him. It was about agriculture but it was also about rural communities, it was about rural life. I just had a lot of respect for him."
We need more involved passionate people of his ilk in this industry.
Machinery accident kills farm advocate Paul Beingessner
Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2009 | 8:40 AM CT Comments15Recommend62CBC News
Paul Beingessner was a candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections in 2008. (Save My CWB)A farm accident in southern Saskatchewan has claimed the life of Paul Beingessner, known as a passionate advocate for farmers having a voice in grain transportation.
Beingessner, 55, died Thursday at his home near Truax, 83 kilometres southwest of Regina.
According to the RCMP, he had been attempting to repair a haybine when he got pulled into the equipment.
Beingessner was one of a group of farmers who established the first shortline railway in the province — called Southern Rails Co-operative — when the major railways were preparing to abandon rail lines that farmers used.
He was a third-generation grain and livestock farmer who also wrote a weekly farm column and opinion pieces for several publications.
Former politician Judy Bradley, who was the minister of highways and transportation in the Roy Romanow government, remembered Beingessner as a man politicians listened to.
"He was always well-researched with the information he came with and he was always very respectful," she said. "He listened to other views also. But he had a tremendous passion and you did want to listen to him. It was about agriculture but it was also about rural communities, it was about rural life. I just had a lot of respect for him."
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