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.

Agricultural Excerpts: Segments of speeches by Otto Lang, Ted Turner and Jack Horner about grain transportation in Canada. Topics covered include the supply of fright and hopper cars, the Crown Nest freight rate, rail line abandonment, and highway maintenance and construction.

Image is a digital reproduction of a photograph of farmers loading grain from horse-drawn wagons into train box cars at Burr, Saskatchewan. Included in the image is the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator situated adjacent to the rail line.

General store and largish house with barber's pole on berandah, freight cars and end of mill in background. About 1905? [Big River, Sask.?]

Herbert citizens holding vegetables sent from Ontario and loading food into a truck from a railway car during drought years.

Horses pull carts to Canadian Pacific Railway cars parked on the edge of a village of a few buildings and numerous tents.

Item is a recording of a discussion between Art Drysdale and Bill Walker (of CFRB) and E.K. Turner (President Sask. Wheat Pool) concerning the announced changes to the Crow Rate by Jean-Luc Pepin. Recording begins with background information on E.K.(Ted) Turner and the Crow Rate, and continues with comments about the effect the proposed changes will have on eastern and western economies, why farmers require the crow rate and their inability to pass along costs, whether farmers would have greater clout if they paid full amount of transportation to the railways, the ability of the Federal Government to defend the subsidy when it comes to international negotiations, what are the basic procedures for getting grain to market, the growth and effect on canola and other speciality crops, and E.K. Turner's experiences when he toured India as an observer of assistance and trade programs.

Views of the loading of cattle and pigs into Canadian Pacific Railways rail cars at Regina for transportation to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair at Toronto.

Views of cattle being corralled and loaded onto Canadian National Railway train cars at the Regina Exhibition grounds for shipment to the 39th annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, held at Toronto, Ontario.

Items are images showing: (1) a lumber camp near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, including log cabins, sleighs, horses and the crew of the lumber camp; and (2) a lumber train on its way to or already reaching Prince Albert.