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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.

This cassette includes a log sheet.

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).

Video features agriculture-related clips, including harrowing, seeding, irrigation, a canola crop, Duncairn Irrigation Reservoir, combining, and other activities and landscapes. There is a clippings list on the outside of the cassette case.

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.

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.

No sub-series were identified in this series.

Gordon Foth interviewing Dr. Fred Smith of Winnipeg Research Station about wheat breeding for Farming Today.

Exterior and interior shots of the Wapos Rabbit Farm, including packaging meat. Clippings list available.