The Farm Babe Michelle Miller seeks to debunk what she sees as misconceptions about modern agriculture perpetuated by another universe of influencers, many of whom are now closely aligned with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and his Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, campaign.
A ‘Farm Babe’ fights for GMOs and Big Ag, pushing back on MAHA influencers
Survey shows people increasingly trust peers and influencers over experts
Upping the farm’s social media game
Posting tips from farmers can put the farm in the right light online
Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia — Farmers who want to use social media should just be themselves. That was a main takeaway from a Jan. 17 social media panel discussion at AgDays in Brandon. The discussion, moderated by Filmore, Sask., grain farmer Sarah Leguee, featured three Canadian farmers with a serious social media game. Social media puts the […] Read more
Opinion: It’s time to shine a light on the dark side of social media
Farmers should know better than most how quickly misinformation spreads in online echo chambers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Social media is undermining our shared reality, and those of us in the agriculture sector need to take better note of the trend. Why? Because not doing so could result in a continued separation between rural and urban Canada, as well as one another. Social media is a drug of sorts, in […] Read more
There’s a lesson in ‘buttergate’ for all farmers, says food writer
Julie Van Rosendaal’s tweet ignited a controversy but the issue shows ‘people are paying attention’
Reading Time: 5 minutes Julie Van Rosendaal spent a lot of time last year thinking about butter. And then she got a lot of people talking about it. Last February, the Calgary-based cook and food writer found herself wondering why butter she was using was firmer than expected at room temperature and harder to spread. “I started buying butter […] Read more
Alberta farmer’s podcast on women in ag attracts a global audience
“It’s been crazy to think that in two years, it has reached so many people and so many countries. For some reason, I am quite popular in Zimbabwe.” – Katelyn Duban.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Katelyn Duban started her podcast after looking for, but not finding, a farm-related podcast for millennial women that she might enjoy listening to. Today, that search is easier — there’s about 100 episodes of “The Rural Woman” podcast available for downloading. And people have found it, with more than 200,000 downloads by listeners in more […] Read more
Virtual tours gather global audience for Vermilion farm
"We're letting people into our way of life"
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chatsworth Farm is a long way from Scotland and even farther from Nigeria. But that hasn’t stopped the Vermilion-area farm from welcoming tour groups from these countries half a world away — virtually, that is. “I started doing tours in March as soon as our first lockdown came into place,” said Charlotte Wasylik, who operates […] Read more
Grain groups post new videos
Chops and Crops along with Alberta Barley’s AGM available on YouTube
Reading Time: < 1 minute With in-person conferences cancelled, Alberta’s wheat and barley commissions have posted several new videos on their YouTube channel. One is a virtual version of the annual ‘Chops and Crops’ roundtable, in which reps from nine commodity commissions (canola, wheat, barley, pulses, potatoes, oats, sugar beet, pork and beekeepers) discuss policy issues with Agriculture Minister Devin […] Read more
Forget Facebook, toss out Twitter — TikTok is the new social media star
Reading Time: 4 minutes Jake Vermeer was enjoying a few beers at an industry meeting last winter when he thought it would be funny to try out TikTok. “I started watching it, and at first, it was kind of stupid. But as you start watching it more, you get more and more addicted,” the young Camrose-area farmer said of […] Read more
By working together, we can grow the world into something new
Reading Time: 4 minutes Leslie Siewert, 13, of Cayley was the junior winner in the Alberta Young Speakers for Agriculture competition (which was held as a virtual event this year). Her topic was: Lessons learned over the last 25 years of agriculture — and how we can apply it to the next 25. Agriculture is killing the planet; cows […] Read more
A virtual farm walk spreads joy far and wide
Reading Time: 3 minutes A little project that started as a way for a family farm to communicate with friends and relatives has become a way to showcase agriculture to the world. Charlotte Wasylik of Chatsworth Farm near Vermilion, made a livestream video tour of her family farm on Facebook Live near the end of March. “We were originally […] Read more
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