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Host Gordon Bacon interviews 1) Dr. Fernando Selles about fertilizer use and micronutrient requirements for crops; and 2) Dr. Grant McLeod about winter cereals, including weed control and fertilizer use. Both interviews take place at the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) and are for Farming Today.

This cassette includes a log sheet.

General sports footage, most from the 1993 season with a few clips from earlier. Includes horses grazing, hockey reports, the introduction of Graham James as a new coach and General Manager, synchronized swimming, track and field, golf, the Roughriders, a soap box derby, Indians baseball, swimming, rodeo, and triathlon clips. No list is available.

Clips of nature and weather, including a tree in a field, a child with a kite, irrigation sprinklers, moon at night, kids in a playground, a house by a creek, trees, birds, and a grain elevator. The write-up enclosed with the tape is occasionally inaccurate.

Four segments for Farming Today: Gordon Foth interviews 1) Dr. Bob Zettner about crop rotation; 2) Dr. Grant MacLeod about winterkill of fall rye; host Gordon Bacon interviews 3) Dr. Doug Cambell about a verticl axis wind turbine and 4) Dr. Bix Bidereck about nitrogen fixation in legumes.

Gordon Foth interviews Dr. Wendal Rice, a microbiologist from the Beaver Lodge Research Station in Alberta about legume inoculations and nitrogen fixation for Farming Today.

Three non-Farming Today clips and six clips from Farming Today series (usually hosted by Gordon Parker):

1. Alfalfa and nitrogen capture
2. Weather with Ken Worek (Environment Canada)
3. CIDA and church World Development program [NOT hosted by Gordon]
4. Ag. Canada Inspection with Ryan Henderson
5. Equipment design lab with Mark Stumberg
6. Weather with Doug Judish (Technician)

At the beginning of the tape, there are about eight minutes of news clips (including the introduction of the provincial sales tax). After the Farming Today clips, there is an Ag Canada advertisement ("What does agriculture mean to you?"), a "Partners in Preventing Crime" public service announcement, and then sports news highlights (professional golf and tennis and a local baseball team, the Swift Current Indians).

Agriculture-related footage including interior and exterior shots of a grain elevator, grain cars, and footage of wind erosion in the summer and winter. Clippings list is available.

Images of hail storm damage, including standing water in fields, hail on the ground, and hail damage in a field and in town. This is followed by old footage of Mid-West Glass manufacturing. Clippings list is available.

Re-enactments of crimes for Crime Stoppers program. Includes footage of RCMP station, a man working at computers, a man breaking into a home and being arrested, a lady by a phone, an RCMP car driving, the exterior of Notukeu Pheasant Farm, and shots of the interior of the detachment.

Revised third edition of the history publication entitled The Green and Growing Years: The Swift Current Region, 1907-1914, written by Don C. McGowan. Published by Cactus Publications.