Maritime AgCast

Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with producers Rebecca Archibald and Jillian Bent about their entrance into agriculture!

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Amy Higgins, Maritime Beef Council, and Ashley Anderson, Agri-Commodity Management Association, about the Season 2 highlights and what's to come in Season 3!

Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Rosalie Gillis-Madden, Perennia, about the newly opened On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) Program. 

Additional information on OFCAF can be found at https://ofcaf.perennia.ca/.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Dean Manning, Manning Family Farm, William Versteeg, Retired Dairy Producer, & Jonathan Wort, Perennia, about community pastures in Nova Scotia.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Carolyn Marshall, Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture, about Living Labs, focusing on the four projects: Cover Crops in Perennial Crops, Cover Crops in Annual Crops, Land Swap & Riparian Zones and Shelterbelts.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Dan and Mandy daCosta and Adam Steeves, Nova Scotia producers, about being new entrants to agriculture and learning as they go.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Jon Jonsson and Andrew Poehl, both of Royal Bank of Canada, about how inflation and interest rates can affect farm finances.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with John Duynisveld, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Katie Trottier and Shane Wood, both of Perennia, about forage harvesting, storage, and testing.

A previous forage-based episode featuring John and Katie was released in November 2021: Episode 31: Preparing a Feeding Management Plan. 

The referenced 2022 Nova Scotia Soil, Pasture & Forage Management Program is available on the Nova Scotia Cattle Producers website. 

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Jeff Clark, PigTrace, discussing the importance of pig traceability in Canada.

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Host Brad McCallum, Agri-Commodity Management Association, chats with Darcy Fitzgerald, Alberta Pork, and Phyllis MacCallum, Canadian Pork Council (at the time of the recording), discussing how Canadian hog prices are established.

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