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

Interior image of a high tunnel, similar to a greenhouse, a semi-permanent structure made of metal or plastic hoops covered with plastic designed to extend the growing season.
Crop Management, News

High tunnels extend vegetable growing season

Research finds that this alternative to building a greenhouse can add weeks of growing time and improve profits for growers

Popular in produce-growing areas of the northern United States such as Minnesota, high tunnels are slowly making their way onto Manitoba fruit and vegetable operations.
A black cow approaches the camera in a lush green pasture.
Livestock Management

Six myths of livestock price insurance

Livestock price insurance leads in Manitoba and Alberta weigh in on the common misunterstandings of LPI among Prairie beef producers

Livestock price insurance leads in Manitoba and Alberta weigh in on common misunterstandings of LPI among Prairie beef farmers.
Calves feed on hay in a pen near their mothers.
Opinion, Tariffs

Farmers need clarity when farm program material is designed

Farmers are less likely to turn to agricultural programs meant to help them if those programs are frustrating to navigate

Canadian farmers are less likely to turn to agricultural programs meant to help them, like business risk management or on-farm funding, if those programs are frustrating to navigate.
A mother cow licks a newborn calf.
Livestock Management

Be smart when managing replacement heifers

The Cost of Production Network offers numbers that beef producers can use to improve their heifer management practices

Managing replacement heifers is often challenging, but maybe more so today in a market boasting record prices for heifers and calves and all other cattle classifications.
A soil probe rests on top of two red, plastic Folgers coffee containers.
News

Soil health survey to canvass farmers on real-world practices

The Soil Health Network says their new survey is meant to keep farmers in the driver’s seat when it comes to adopting on-farm practices

The Soil Health Network says their new survey is meant to keep farmers in the driver’s seat when it comes to adopting on-farm practices.
Brandon University chemistry student Kendal Giesbrecht poses for a photo in a library.
Farm Living

Manitoba student to study beer building blocks

Kendal Giesbrecht of Brandon University is one of 250 students headed for research opportunities in Germany; Giesbrecht’s will look at amino acid release in beer

Kendal Giesbrecht of Brandon University is one of 250 students headed for research opportunities in Germany; Giesbrecht’s will look at amino acid release in beer.

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