Items are images showing the cutting of wheat in the Zelma area of Saskatchewan:
(1) Otto Fraleigh;
(2) Billy Walsh, George Peek, Otto Fraleigh;
(3) unidentified.

Item is a recording of speeches made by D. Grant Devine (Premier of Saskatchewan) and E.K. (Ted) Turner at an event to celebrate the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Grant Devine congratulated the Pool on its 60th anniversary, and discussed the current agricultural difficulties and the need to learn and understand past difficulties. He focussed his attention on issues such as interest rates, input cost, world commodity prices, subsidies and assistance program. E. K Turner spoke about future government policies towards agriculture, and the need for closer cooperation between levels of government, between commercial organizations and with farm organizations.

Agricultural film: (1) Dr. D.J. Skinner discusses the reasons for establishing the Emergency Disease Eradication Task Force by Agriculture Canada. (2) Dr. H.R. Davidson of the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Swift Current explains grain drying by using solar energy. (3) An explanation about the future use of vegetable protein as a substitute for meat protein in meat products. (4) Dr Ian Garnett of the Agriculture Research Station in Brandon explains the use of the ultrasonic back fat measure for swine.

A recording in four parts on two audio discs (records).

Part 1 : Dr. Harrington talks of travels to Egypt to establish an agricultural program growing grains on the Nile Delta. He also speaks about modifications to land in order to grow crops by irrigation agriculture.

Part 2 : Dr. Harrington talks about the Egyptian climate, populations, infrastructure, diet, and religion.

Part 3 : Dr. Harrington talks about Ramadan, comparing Islam (Mohamadism) to Christianity. Also discusses educational opportunities, diseases present in the area, and states that Egypt is in a transitional state of adopting Western ways.

Part 4 : Dr. Harrington talks of the Egyptian lifestyle, land reform, and mechanization.

Item is a recording of E.K. Turner's testimony before a committee examining impact of free trade negotiations between Canada and the United States. E.K. Turner focussed his attention on the future of marketing boards, the need to establish a clear definition of the bilateral negotiations, the impact of countervailing actions and the settlement of disputes, and market access. Following an opening statement, the committee asked questions of E.K. Turner concerning the consequences of the removal of trade barriers to the infrastructure of Canadian agriculture, areas that would likely be brought up by Americans in the course of negotiations, and what measures need to be taken in regards to other international subsidies.

Item is a recording of a portion of the CBC programs The World at 6 (6:00 pm news) and "As It Happens" from July 28, 1986.

Recording begins on B side by joining in progress The World at 6. News reports on this program concern: British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit to the South African township of Soweto and his meeting with Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi; car bombing in Lebanon that killed 32 (thirty-two) people; riots/strike by Hindus in New Delhi to protest recent Indian government action in the state of Punjab; sales of heavily subsidized US wheat to China and the USSR (Russia) and how this is perceived as a threat by Canadian and Australian farmers; an arrest of a father [Glenn Roach] in Ontario for killing his 27 month old daughter [Melissa Roach]; search for the killer of 11 year old Alison Parrott; search for 2-1/2 year old Lynn Marie Hellier near the community of Parksville on Vancouver Island; firing of the CN Rail conductor [Wayne Smith] involved in the head-on-collision with a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta that occurred on February 8, 1986; developments in the Sinclair Stevens Conflict of Interest Inquiry, with a focus on the testimony of Shirley Walker (aide to Stevens) and her diaries; attempts by the Nova Scotia government to attract the Linton Company to build a radar components factory in the province; the United States and the USSR preparations for an arms-reduction summit; rematches between chess champion Garry Kasparov and former champion Anatoly Karpov to raise money for Chernobyl nuclear accident victims; results of a general election in Thailand; efforts to have Canada play a larger role in Central America; shooting of grey seals by hunters in Newfoundland to publicize the effect seals have on fish stocks; efforts by the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban asbestos; the campaign for a new leader of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia; and comments by United States Attorney General Edwin Meese on American efforts in the war on drugs.

As It Happens, hosted by Alan Maitland and Susan Reisler, has the following segments: interview with Janet Jessup (whose daughter Christine Jessup was murdered two years earlier) about the feelings likely being experienced by the parents of murdered 11-year old Alison Parrott; interview with Dr. John Bradford (of the Royal Ottawa Hospital) on efforts to street proof children and how to deal with the criminals who target children; interview with Steven Bindman (of the Ottawa Citizen) on Sinclair Steven Inquiry testimony provided by Shirley Walker (special assistant to Sinclair Stevens while he was industry minister and worked for Stevens' York Centre Corp. for twenty years), in particularly on the testimony about entries in her diaries that appeared to indicate she was informing Mr. Stevens of business dealings that were supposed to be held in a blind trust while he was in elected office. Next is an interview with Wayne Smith, a railway conductor that was fired by CN after his freight train ran into a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta; discussion with Selig Harrison (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) to discuss the implications for relations between the United States and the USSR (Russia) as a result of the proposed pull out of some Soviet troops from Afghanistan; interview with John Hughes, the first Canadian to participate in the BOC (British Oxygen Company) around-the-world solo yacht race; interview with Allan Billard (executive director of the Eastern Fishermen's Federation) who organized a publicity event to illustrate the effects that fisherman see grey seals have on fish stocks and to reinforce the need to reintroduce a cull of the seals; interview with Paul Ajas on how recent floods in Alberta revealed (primarily) flour gold in gravel beds as the floodwaters recede; and interview with E.K. Turner (President, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool) on the effects new American subsidies on wheat will have on Canadian grain sales to China and the USSR.

Item is a recording of a portion of the noon hour radio programming of CBC. Recording includes a portion of the hourly news, the weather forecast, reports on the Toronto Stock Exchange, cattle prices, and commodity prices, a report on Canadian Wheat Board Advisory Committee elections (accomplishments of board, need for voter turnout), status of drought assistance relief of grain to Africa being donated by prairie farmers, comments from E.K. Turner on the call at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool's annual convention for more deficiency payments (including the issue of whether there is a contradiction in the Pool's position of the need for elimination of international subsidies, but maintenance of the Crow payments to help with grain transportation. On side B is a portion of a report getting reaction on the Federal Throne Speech - in terms of the inclusion of issues of concern to agricultural producers.

Items are film negative images of grain elevators: (1) grain elevators in the distance; (2) Mile 102 grain elevator; (3) Searle grain elevator; (4) Swan River grain elevators; (5) Coronach grain elevators; (6) PV grain elevator; (7)-(8) Searle grain elevators; and (9) Kinistino grain elevators.

(1)-(15): Images relating to Estlin, Saskatchewan including students gathered in front of Boyle School; a grain elevator on fire on July 22, 1920; exterior view of first store in Estlin; Mrs. Carson standing in front of a restaurant; the livery barn; fire at the lumber yard in 1929; group photograph of Estlin Ladies Aid Group ca. 1927; and members of the Revill family of Estlin.

(16)-(23): Images of the Exhibition parade in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1936 including Knights of Columbus float; float with banner reading "The Confederation of Three Great Canadian Churches, Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational; and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on horseback. Regina City Hall is in the background of most images.

(24): Exterior view of Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina with Victoria Park in foreground.

(25): Queen Elizabeth and King George in cavalcade during visit to Regina in 1939.

(26): Exterior view of Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) building in Regina. [1955 or after]

Items are images showing scenes from farm of Mr. Anderson located near Alsask:

(1) Seven autos parked by the farm home;
(2) Trees around farmyard and garden;
(3) Large field of stooked grain.