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Our hosts, the Alberta Farm Writers Association, have some wonderful farm tours and professional development sessions lined up for us and of course, it’s always great to meet other farm writers and ag communicators from across the country. Continue reading Farm writers heading west  
We’ll be immersed in the cowboy spirit during our stay in Fort Worth, learning about agriculture in Texas, getting reacquainted with international delegates and brushing up on our professional development skills. As printed in the Guelph Mercury, June 4 2009: We have attempted to tell our story for years — but for the most part, people haven’t been interested in food and farming. After all, from the average Canadian’s perspective, there was safe food and plenty of it, so what else was there to know? But that was in the days before food scares, a misnamed influenza virus, and an increasing environmental awareness shifted the spotlight increasingly on to agriculture and food producers. Continue reading Farmers ready and willing to talk about food production
Chicken Farmers of Canada has just launched a brand new blog – called Chicken Feeds – that will focus on all things chicken in Canada. Continue reading Is it Canadian chicken? What does the label mean? These are interesting and exciting times to be in agriculture – and seemingly, even better times to be communicating about food and farming. I’m basing this on the growing popularity of the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association (ECFWA), which reported record membership numbers at its annual meeting in the Niagara Region today. Continue reading Membership in farm writer group on the rise The posts have been very sporadic here lately as I have been quite sidetracked with other projects…the “I should blog about this” pile is getting bigger though. And tonight’s activities were possibly just the inspiration to get me back into it, I think. Continue reading The inspirations of #agchat Farmers sometimes get a little upset at how their livelihoods are depicted in urban media and on the Internet. They feel their side of the story isn’t being told, which leads consumers to have unfair or incomplete notions of food and farming. For the most part, farmers are too busy farming and often, activist groups are leading sources for journalists – because they’re available, accessible and eager to tell their tale. Continue reading Upcoming presentation to focus on agriculture and activists |   | |||||
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Tonight, I’m joining about 100 of my colleagues and heading west for the next few days – to Edmonton, Alberta for the annual Canadian Farm Writers Federation conference.
A lot of people have asked these questions and as consumers, we now have the chance to find out the answer - straight from Canada’s chicken farmers.