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.
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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.
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://soundfm.s3.amazonaws.com/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.
episode 80 the agriculture show by jeff stager and terry kingsmill
Terry Kingsmill from oia.on.ca visits our studio to tell us about the Ontario Institute of Agrologists and how their work benefits the public. Lots of talk about the great tunes Terry brought with him.
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Episode 81 The Agriculture Show with Jeff Stager and George Klosler
George Klosler from https://www.fcc-fac.ca/ is in studio today. Farm Credit Canada provides banking for canadian agriculture and sponsors the AgriSpirit fund for community projects in rural Canada. We also played some great tunes George brought with him.
episode 79 agriculture show may 16 2014 by jeff stager, mark wales
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Mark Wales the president of www.ofa.on.ca is our returning guest today. Mark was in studio for episode 18. Mark speaks to his experience of 3 years as president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and about the upcoming provincial election issues.
episode 77 agriculture show apr 25 2014 by jeff stager, bruce kelly
Bruce Kelly works in Guelph for http://www.farmfoodcare.org/ He does research on water issues that affect agriculture. We played a bunch of random tunes.
episode 78 agriculture show april 29 2014 by jeff stager, sharon gross
Sharon Gross from Alma visits The Agriculture Show. She brings news of many local events supporting local theater, fundraisers, farm safety, roast beef dinners, and many other evens being held in the countryside.
episode 76 agriculture show april 25 2014 by jeff stager, gord surgeoner
Gord Surgeoner is our guest today. Gord brings his experiences about agriculture from the many organizations he is involved with and others he believes are valuable. Check ’em out. http://www.oaft.org www.biotalk.ca www.adoptcouncil www.farms.com www.ofa.on.ca www.cffo.ca