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