Posts by the Agriculture Show
Susan Koswan and Anne Morgan are in the studio today. Susan and Anne are long time community minded citizens. They are members of the Grand River Environmental Network. All our songs today have bees and honey in their title and lyrics. GREN is presenting a pollinator information and speakers event in April.
A full house and a full episode. Juli, Emiel, Eric, and Dan from fspartners.ca bring down the house with enthusiasm, music, information, and a quiz.
Vineet Bhandari is in the studio today. We talk about the things he does at his business http://www.bhandaridental.com/ , things he does in his community, and his impression of the booklet The Real Dirt on Farming. http://www.realdirtonfarming.ca/assets/docs/PDFs/2014-DIRT-ENG.pdf Vineet brought some music of classic rock, pop rock and other genres.
Our show today had three guests and we talked about getting the message of agriculture out to the public. Stephanie Szusz from TD bank, Kelly Daynard from farmandfoodcare.org , and Stewart Snyder who farms near New Hamburg. Thanks to Matt for getting songs from our guests collected and ready for the playlist.
The Waterloo Federation of Agriculture encourages a dialoque with our municipal partners in the Region of Waterloo. We bring some census data http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/doingBusiness/resources/CensusBulletin-FinalAgri.pdf and booklets http://www.realdirtonfarming.ca/assets/docs/PDFs/2014-DIRT-ENG.pdf about agriculture to a council meeting of our area municipalities. Here is the presentation to Woolwich council.
Ted Cowan is our guest today. Ted is a researcher with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. His vocation lends him some great observations about agriculture and he talks of his latest work on natural gas for rural Ontario. Ted brought just a super variety of tunes for us to play.
Regional councillor Sean Strickland visits out studio today. Agriculture has never been too far from his life experiences. Sean brought some real classic tunes for us to play.
“Po Cholly” Robertson is in our studio today. Charlie delights us with his music, stories of the music scene in Waterloo, and his life in Muskoka. Agriculture in all three.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The North Dumfries Historical Preservation Society www.facebook.com/northdumfrieshistoricalpreservationsociety had a fundraiser. Listen below to hear the program.
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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.
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.