Our studio guest today is Sandy MacDonald. Sandy is a local performer. It was great to have him play a few tunes in studio. A local boy, Sandy has his own story of agriculture.
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episode 103 agriculture show dec 30 2014
Zac Williams and Evelyn White visited our studio today. We talked of all things Junior Farmer in our local club and the province http://www.jfao.on.ca . Zac had some great tunes on his cell phone that we played.
episode 102 agriculture show dec 23 2014
Jimmy Prevost from http://www.curtaincallentertainment.ca/ is in the studio today. Jimmy speaks about how agriculture was part of his youth and how it is still part of his urban life. We played some tunes from the archives of http://www.hepcathoppers.ca/
episode 101 agriculture show dec 16 2014
Todays guest is Stephen Thompson. Teri Pearson was also in studio to provide support. We talked about our favourite topic agriculture, via commentary, songs, and cow tipping.
episode 100 agriculture show nov 18 2014
For the 100th episode, the first guests on the show were re-invited. This picture is from a WFA board meeting also showing our President Ken Hunsberger. Gord was stuck in snow at home so this picture is OK.
We talked about the issues from 3 years ago and where they were now. Played a couple “chicken” songs on Marks behalf and Gord had a couple Mose Allison tunes for his pre-recorded section of the show.
episode 99 agriculture show nov 11 2014
Gord Grant is “da house” today. Today is Remembrance Day. Gord brought some tunes and his stories of how WW1 affected his family. We hope that these stories are representative of how the World Wars affected many rural families.
episode 98 agriculture show nov 4 2014
Betty Butcher is in the studio today. Betty has lots of experience bringing the news of agriculture to the public. She continues to provide her skills as a speaker/motivator. We also played some great tunes.
episode 97 agriculture show oct 28 2014
Randy Magnus from http://www.rosevilleub.ca/ is in our studio today. Randy shares his experience of urban and rural churches. we had four great tunes to hear as well.
episode 95 agriculture show oct 20 2014
The awards banquet can be heard here. The rain held off until the match was over and everyone was on their way to the banquet.
episode 96 agriculture show oct 21 2014
John Holman is running for mayor in North Dumfries. We talk about some of the issues in a rural municipality. John brought some great tunes for us to play.
episode 94 agriculture show oct 16 2014
The The Waterloo Federation of Agriculture held their AGM in the New Dundee Community Centre on Oct 16. Our guest speaker was Gary Doyle. His topic was “how the media reports on agriculture”. Other reports were from the Waterloo Junior Farmers, Waterloo Rural Women, and the Waterloo/North Dumfries Plowmens Association.
episode 93 agriculture show oct 14 2014
Nic Weber and prop were in studio today. You’ll have to listen in to find out about the bird. We talked about all things Junior Farmer in the Region and Ontario. Lots of great activities going on. We played a nice mix of country and rock that Nic brought with him.
episode 92 agriculture show oct 14 2014
Sue Foxton is a rural municipal politician. Agriculture is a topic that crops up (pardon the pun,,, it’s a little corny) in rural municipalities that urban jurisdictions would not usually need to deal with. Sue brought along four great tunes.
Douglas Watson in the studio
Douglas Watson, local R&B musician was in the studio talkin’ ’bout the scene here in KW. We played tunes from his first CD Voodoo Healin.
episode 91 agriculture show oct 5 2014
The North Dumfries Historical Preservation Society www.facebook.com/northdumfrieshistoricalpreservationsociety had a fundraiser. Listen below to hear the program.
The Agriculture Show and SoundFM in the news
http://storage.radiowaterloo.ca/Pages+from+AyrNews_Oct1_2014_online.pdf
episode 90 agriculture show sept 30 2014
Tom Woodcock from www.raresites.org is in studio today. Tom tells us of the public activities and research projects at RARE in Blair. We played a great variety of ag related musics.
episode 89 agriculture show aug 19 2014
Doug Wagner from outdoorfarmshow.com tells us about this yearly trade show. We learn a little bit about Doug, and some of the extras at the show. Our music was of some straight ahead music.
episode 88 agriculture show aug 12 2014
Irene Schmidt-Adeney from http://ayrnews.ca/ brings us her experiences of being part of a rural community newspaper. She tells us what is similar and what is different from an urban newspaper. The music today was from a CD of the http://ayrparisband.com/ .
episode 87 agriculture show aug 12 2014
Krista Hulshof from http://www.veldarchitect.com/ returns to our studio to being news of a workshop about permaculture and polyculture being held this Oct 2 2014. The guest speaker is Mark Shepard. Event info is here http://veldarchitect.com/theagritect/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/markshepard-poster.jpg where you can also find the URL to reserve a seat via Eventbrite. http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mark-shepard-workshop-tickets-1565353013?aff=es2&rank=1 and http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mark-shepard-public-talk-tickets-10556618129?aff=es2&rank=2 Our music was of 2 songs and 3 spoken word audio clips. Our Farm also has info here https://www.facebook.com/OurFarmDFR
episode 86 The Agriculture Show Aug 5 2014
Sean Chaki from www.agsolutions.ca and Andrea Maillet from www.oncommunication.ca are in studio for todays show. Our topic is about the work involved with bringing science to new products for ag production in corn and soybeans. Sean brought along 3 great tunes,,,wish he had brought a few more.
episode 85 the agriculture show july 29 2014
Our guests today are Brian Fried and Donna Telfer. We talk about the Canadian Plowing Championships 2014 being held in Ontario August 14-16. On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/774087542635516/ We had plowing poems and songs to complete the show. More info here. http://www.canadianplowing.ca/CPO_-_Events.html
episode 84 agriculture show july 22 2014 by by Rob Miller and Alison Inglis
Our studio guests today are Rob Miller www.agsolutions.ca and Alison Inglis http://oncommunication.ca/ We talk about modern agricultural practices, the successes and the challenges. Rob brought along some great C&W tunes to play.
episode 83 the agriculture show by jeff stager and anna contini
Anna Contini from foodlink.ca is the guest today. Foodlink is one of the longer running and established local food organizations. Our song selection by Anna, are common themed around food.
episode 82 the agriculture show by jeff stager and celie diebold
Celie Diebold is in studio today. Celie is the 2014 Queen of the Furrow for the Ontario Plowmens Association. www.plowingmatch.com . Celie is also involved with the Waterloo club of www.jfao.com . Lots of news and info about many related events in Ontario. We played some great tunes Celie brought with her.
