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This series consists of videocassettes containing mostly unedited segments prepared for the television show Farming Today and one film reel containing the opening credits for the show.
Host Gordon Bacon [Gordon Foth?] interviews Dr. Fernando Selles of the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) in Swift Current, Saskatchewan about new pear grow seeding systems research for Farming Today.
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.
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.
This series consists of videotapes of raw file footage filmed by CJFB-TV camera operators. Footage includes mostly generic scenery of Swift Current and the countryside around it through the years and seasons; scenes of farms and crop fields; harvest and threshing; livestock; buildings; citizens; some general news and sports footage; parks and Christmas lights and decorations.
No sub-series have been identified in this series.
Six segments for Farming Today: 1) Host John Waddington interviewing Dr. Paul Jefferson about the winter hardiness of alfalfa. 2) Host Les Bohrson interviewing Morris and Linda Metke of Treasure Valley Farms about drip irrigation and fruit orchards in Sasaktchewan. 3) Gordon Foth interviewing Dr. Brian McConkey about watershed management. 4) Gordon Foth interviewing Dr. Myriam Fernandez regarding disease control in cereal crops. 5) Host Bob Springer interviewing Jim Graham about farm feed and hay testing. 6) Host Les Bohrson interviewing Vince and Gerald Bolton (?) and Bord Hazen (?) about snow water management.
Three non-Farming Today clips and six clips from Farming Today series (usually hosted by Gordon Parker):
Alfalfa and nitrogen capture
Weather with Ken Worek (Environment Canada)
CIDA and church World Development program [NOT hosted by Gordon]
Ag. Canada Inspection with Ryan Henderson
Equipment design lab with Mark Stumberg
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).