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
Grain groups post new videos
Chops and Crops along with Alberta Barley’s AGM available on YouTube
‘Northern Farmer’ reaps a bumper crop of YouTube followers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tyson Kucheruk never expected to be internet famous when he started his YouTube channel in 2006. “Back then, it was pretty much just for fun — take a video, upload it, that was pretty much it,” said the High Prairie producer known as Northern Farmer on the popular video-sharing site. “But later on, we gained […] Read more
Livestock feed webinar series launches on YouTube
Next live webinar on Aug. 1
Reading Time: < 1 minute Producers who aren’t able to catch a new series of webinars on feeding strategy can review them later on YouTube. The nine-part series, which take place every second Thursday at 7:30 p.m., is a joint effort of Alberta Agriculture and applied research and forage associations. The first two webinars were on grazing options for dry […] Read more
Inspirational Nanton farmer urges others to be all that they can be
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first thing you notice about Chris Koch is that he had no arms or legs. But what you remember after meeting him is his joyous grin, and the three words that sum up his approach to life: If I Can. Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, Koch is a YouTube sensation and he’d just come back […] Read more
Alberta vet’s social media campaign pays off for his Ukrainian friend
Airdrie vet Cody Creelman helps a vet in Ukraine win a bovine ultrasound
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cody Creelman just wanted to see the look on his friend’s face. Vadim Pryadko was trying not to make too much noise. The two veterinarians, one from Airdrie and the other from Ukraine, became friends thanks to a shared love of YouTube videos about bovine veterinary medicine— a friendship which became stronger after Creelman persuaded […] Read more
Only in the digital age — Alberta and Ukrainian cattle vets a YouTube sensation
A shared passion for veterinary medicine and YouTube has Albertan Cody Creelman helping a Ukrainian colleague in his bid to win a bovine ultrasound
Reading Time: 4 minutes It started with an online friendship between two cattle veterinarians, and blossomed into a worldwide, viral campaign. Even though he doesn’t speak a word of Ukrainian, Airdrie vet Cody Creelman, was drawn to the online videos of Vadim Pryadko, who lives in a town called Khmelnitsky near the Polish border. “We developed a relationship,” said […] Read more
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