Jeff Melchior

Jeff Melchior

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Jeff Melchior is a reporter for Glacier FarmMedia publications. He grew up on a mixed farm in northern Alberta until the age of twelve and spent his teenage years and beyond in rural southern Alberta around the city of Lethbridge. Jeff has decades’ worth of experience writing for the broad agricultural industry in addition to community-based publications. He has a Communication Arts diploma from Lethbridge College (now Lethbridge Polytechnic) and is a two-time winner of Canadian Farm Writers Federation awards.

Stories by Jeff Melchior

Four black calves stand in a pasture staring at the camera. High tensile wire from the pasture's fence is visible in between.
Livestock Management

Methane-reducing solutions hit roadblocks

Developers struggle with complexities of cattle rumen, logistics of cattle on pasture and lack of incentives

Companies developing vaccines that inhibit methane production in cattle are finding their development is more complex than first thought.
A stock image looking straight at the nose of a private jet sitting on a runway with the sun setting behind it.
Farm Living

Growing crops for fuel comes with challenges

Hurdles facing energy crops include land use concerns, food vs. fuel production and incentives for farmers

Crops for sustainable aviation fuel will be the subject of much debate. Where to plant them, will farmers invest in them and how food and fuel prices will be impacted must be discussed.
A sprayer is parked on the side of a gravel road being loaded by a tanker truck carrying a pesticide tank mix.
Crop Management

Warding off dicamba spray drift

Some experts say dicamba’s drift risk isn’t worth it, while others say it’s a matter of proper management

When it comes to farm weed control, some spraying experts say dicamba’s drift risk isn’t worth it, others say it’s a matter of proper management, smart farmer decisions and chemical product choice.
feedlot Canada Beef
Livestock Management

Canada’s simplified BSE testing program shows good uptake

Canada changed its BSE surveillance after lower global incidence of ‘mad cow disease’ led to international standards shift

Going by the number of submitted material samples so far, cattle producers’ response so far to an updated national surveillance program for BSE is encouraging for Canada’s CFIA.
Deer and elk in a snowy clearing surrounded by forest.
News

Efforts to control bovine tuberculosis focus on wildlife

Wildlife are a known reservoir for bovine tuberculosis, but elk are not the only threat to cattle herds

After an almost two-decade absence, bovine tuberculosis has made its return to Manitoba on a Pembina Valley dairy operation. The case was confirmed June 13.
Ripe wheat in a field west of Marcelin, Sask. on August 27, 2022. Photo: Michael Robin
Crop Management, News

Producers wrestle over organic standards draft

Canada’s organic farmers have until July 29 to comment on new organic standards that would open the door to products like municipally derived struvite fertilizer, but would also crack down on lapses in organic management

Canada’s organic farmers have until July 29 to comment on new organic standards that would open the door to products likemunicipally derived struvite fertilizer

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