Brianne Curtis is our guest on The Agriculture Show today. Brianne works at Grain Farmers of Ontario and also volunteers as the chairperson of the education committee for IPM 2023 in Dufferin Country. Our Playlist:
Paul Hoekstra is our guest today on The Agriculture Show. Paul works at Grain Farmers of Ontario Paul is a family man, and beekeeping has been part of his life. Our playlist:
Melina and Courtney VanOmmen are our guests today, Courtney is a volunteer chairperson at this years IPM and Rural Expo in Dufferin County. Our playlist:
Dawn MVK and Deanna Tuckey are our guest this week on The Agriculture Show. Dawn and Deanna are the Co-chair and Secretary respectively of this years IPM and Rural Expo. https://www.plowingmatch.org/ipm2023/ Our Playlist :
Bill McCutcheon and Dawn Van Kampen are the guests of The Agriculture Show today. Bill and Dawn bring us news of this years 2023 International Plowing Match & Rural Expo . The Match is being held in Dufferin County in September. Our playlist:
Wayne Caldwell is our guest on The Agriculture Show today. Wayne has a couple website links you can have a look at. https://www.waynecaldwell.ca/ AND https://graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/programs/rpdprof Todays Playlist :
Mary Dilly is the guest of The Agriculture Show today. Mary works and volunteers at things that go on at these links. www.downsizingsolutions.ca https://www.dogguides.com and https://cable14.com/15147806/tv-shows/savvy-seniors Our playlist:
Martin Straathof is our guest today on The Agriculture Show. Martin is the Executive Director at https://ontariofarmlandtrust.ca/ Working together to protect Ontario farmland. Our playlist:
Peggy Brekveld is our guest for episode #280. Peggy and family have a dairy farm in the Thunder Bay region. Peggy is also the president of ofa,on.ca Our playlist:
Krista Cressman is our guest today on The Agriculture Show. Krista works at the Turkey Farmers of Ontario head office. https://turkeyfarmers.on.ca/ Our playlist:
Wolverton Mountain – Claude King [Merle Kilgore]
Did She Mention My Name – Gordon Lightfoot
Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Stop The Madness – Jim Dyer
Puff The Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul, and Mary
Owen Roberts and Kaitlyn Anderson from fspartners.ca are our guests today. Find out about that first step that food takes from farmer to table. Our playlist:
Cody Thompson (AKA Dr. Swamp) is in the studio today, Cody is a musician. Look for his new collaboration coming Dec 21. After finishing a research project at U of G in “space farming” he is now helping to install a vertical farming system. Our playlist:
Autumn Unwin and Gabrielle Ferguson are the guests of The Agriculture Show for episode 274. Autumn and Gabe work at rural leadership training and rural community development for The Rural Ontario Institute. www.ruralontarioinstitute.ca Our Playlist:
Ross Wilson and Tim Cumming are our guests today. Ross and Tim work at the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority www.abca.ca We are on site at one of their test plots to see the use of cover crops in 60′ corn rows. Our playlist:
Jim Dyer returns to our studio today. Jim speaks to a study that he co-authored called “Potential Role for Consumers to Reduce Canadian Agricultural GHG Emissions by Diversifying Animal Protein Sources.” https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5466 Jim did some “noodling” with his banjo built for him at https://www.midnightspecial.ca/ Our playlist:
Kyle Smith is our guest today. Once again we are using live remote rather than the studio. Kyle keeps busy at Wellington County Museum and Archives. Our playlist:
Star Witness by Neko Case
Million Dollar Bill by Dawes
Four Winds by Bright Eyes
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate by The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis
Gord Grant is our guest today. Gord is the Member Service Representative for Waterloo, Wellington, and Dufferin counties on behalf of the www.ofa.on.ca The studio at CKMS is closed and Gord has kindly offered to help with a remote live broadcast. We talk about the OFA’s president Keith Currie”s comments about the effects of the COVID pandemic on agriculture. Our playlist:
Kate Hamilton is our studio guest today. Kate brings us news of an event March 10 called Women in Agriculture. The Farm Credit Corporation is the sponsor for this event. Our playlist:
Hand Me Downs – Arkells
Northern Lights (for Steel Audrey) – The Fugitives
Patrick Verkley sits in the guest chair this week. Patrick raises chickens on his Middlesex farm and has a small business www.verkleydm.com Our playlist:
