The Waterloo Federation of Agriculture had their annual meeting in New Dundee on Thursday October 15.   Christina Crowley-Arklie of www.thepassionatevoice.com  was the guest speaker speaking to “the changing times in the new world of agriculture”.

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Larry Martin is the guest of The Agriculture Show today. Larry works at www.agrifoodtraining.com .  He brings news about agriculture in his capacity as a business adviser.  We had some great tunes to play.

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Theresa Schumilas is the guest today.  Theresa takes us from the beginnings of local food to the present.  Theresa’s choice in music covers a range of genres.

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Michael Harris joins The Agriculture Show today.  Mike is the standing member of the provincial legislature representing Kitchener-Conestogo.  Mike brought some great tunes for us to play.

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The Waterloo Junior Farmers celebrate their 100 years in the Region of Waterloo.  Pictures at  www.facebook.com/groups/271780469548415/ and webpage at  http://waterloojf100.weebly.com/home.html  Click the links below for the banquet audio.

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Our guests today are , Christina Poyanitsch, Caroline Westerkemp, Beatrice Hadorn, Gillian Stewart, and Lisa Marie Walsh.   Nic Weber brought these people to our studio. All five guests are in their last week of touring Ontario for the last 3 months. Their homes are in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria and Scotland. We talk about the differences and similarities between Ontario agriculture and European agriculture. It seems our international guests have developed an interest in country and western music judging by their song choices.

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Julia Christensen Hughes is our studio guest today. Julia traces her experiences in agriculture from when she was a kid, up to the present. Julia is now Dean of the College of Business + Economics  www.uoguelph.ca/business  The music we played was food themed.

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Stephen Denys is out guest today. Steve works at  http://www.prideseeds.ca . Steve has some great insights into the public’s interest in farming.  He brought some popular tunes by well known artists and some tunes by the same artists with a little less air play.

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Lynn Perrin and Sandra Quehl are in the studio today to bring the latest news of the Waterloo Junior Farmers 100th anniversary celebration.  http://waterloojf100.weebly.com . There were 5 great songs to play,,,, 6 if you count The Junior Farmers Song.

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Tim Louis is our guest today. Tim is a musician www.timlouis.com and aspiring politician www.votetimlouis.ca  having called Waterloo Region his home for 20 years.  Tim’s music selections were a wide variety of genres and styles.

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John Perrin is the guest of The Agriculture Show today. John is a Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) .  John’s music selections were of some classic rock and top 40 tunes.

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Melisa Luymes joins us in the studio today.  Mel has a webpage at www.headlands.ca . where she adds to the agricultural discussion with “Mel’s Prime Beef” a collection of video rants.  Mel brought a bunch of great tunes.  So many songs,,, not enough time.

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Jan Westcott is our guest today. Jan is with Spirits Canada  www.acd.ca . www.mydrinkmychoice.ca  The distillery members of Spirits Canada are major users of ontario grains.  Jan brought a bunch of great tunes. I think we got through about 2/3 of them.

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Amy Cronin and Scott Graham are today’s guests.  Amy and Scott are members of  www.ontariopresidentscouncil.com  Amy is the Chair of  www.ontariopork.on.ca/  and Scott, the Chair of www.eggfarmersofontario.ca/  .  We played some C&W , and music from some up and coming Canadian musicians.

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Patrick Jilesen is the studio guest today. Pat is an advocate for agriculture while he operates his family farm and participates in policy development for Ontario agriculture. Pat brought top ten music by some familiar musicians. Great songs that will be around for awhile.

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Felix Weber  www.agbusiness.ca , Kaye McLaga   www.premierequipment.ca , and Max Salman  http://www.geomaxx.ca  are in the studio today.  It’s all about precision agriculture. We played lots of tunes,,, with three guests, we doubled our usual playcount.

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Today’s guests are Jim Coffey, Ashley Hall, and Roy Hickling. Our guests all have a connection to www.pioneer.com  ,a seed supplier in Ontario. You can catch some of Roy’s music at  www.royhickling.com  .  We had live music, music from CD, and fav tunes from everyone.

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Today’s guests were Susan Mills and Sandra Quehl. The trophy they are holding is the Waterloo Junior Farmers Award for Outstanding Dramatic Performance.  This was for the years 1948-1981. A fitting piece of memorabilia for this years 100th anniversary of a Junior Farmer club in Waterloo.  Susan and Sandra brought lots of news of the upcoming celebration Aug 22 in Wellesley.  Check out the event and news here,  http://waterloojf100.weebly.com/    and here,  https://www.facebook.com/groups/271780469548415/  .  We had some really great music to play courtesy of our guests.

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Peter Seemann  from  www.grassrootspa.ca  is our guest for this episode.  He works to connect the policy needs of groups, to governments.  His connections with agriculture are personal, and professional. Peter brought a great variety of tunes and genres for us to play.

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Neil Currie visits our studio today.  Neil is the general manager at  www.ofa.on.ca  He is an important part of that agricultural link from field to plate. Neil brought along familiar and eclectic tunes for us to enjoy.

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Beverley Robertson graces our studio today with 3 different instruments and a variety of tunes to match. She honours our agricultural theme with folk country tunes and country stories to match

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Max Salman is our guest today. Max is a geophysicist who uses an airplane to ply his craft. Here’s a link to one of the companies Max is associated with.  http://www.medusa-systems.com/  He was able to select 4 great songs from his large collection of music. Here’s a link to some music Max created. http://skylaneofficial.bandcamp.com/

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The North Dumfries Historical Preservation Society presented their second fundraiser. Listen to it here.

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John Drummond, who is a leader with Waterloo 4-H, is in studio today. It is a special year for Waterloo 4-H as this is the 100th year of the first 4-H club in Ontario.  Get all the info here.  http://www.4-hontario.ca/4h-in-my-area/waterloo.aspx  We played a nice variety of tunes.

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