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

A herd of black cattle in an outdoor pasture stare at the camera.
Livestock Management

Beef farmers find big premiums for replacement heifers

The price of replacement heifers is through the roof, and beef producers in Western Canada are marketing creatively to take advantage

The price of replacement heifers is through the roof in Western Canada, and beef producers are getting creative when marketing cattle to take advantage
A close-up photo of several flea beetles damaging the leaf of a canola plant.
Crop Management

Good agronomy urged under uncertain canola market

With tariffs and trade wars looming, Canadian canola growers are urged to eke out every bit of efficiency in their 2025 canola production

With tariffs and trade wars looming, Canadian canola growers are urged to eke out every bit of efficiency in their 2025 canola production.
A canola cotyledon shows damage from flea beetles feeding.
Crop Management

Canola can be protected from flea beetle threat

Following best practices can help producers beat back flea beetles and prevent financially damaging crop stress

Flea beetles wreak around $300 million in damages annually across the Prairies and were named the greatest economic risk to canola by last year’s Canola Council of Canada grower survey.
A dairy cow sticks its head through an opening in its pen to feed in an indoor barn.
Livestock Management

Dairy defends against provincial trade barrier criticism

A debate has broken out in Canada over whether dairy supply management does or does not hinder interprovincial trade

Glacier FarmMedia – Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers have catapulted into the spotlight as trade relations with the United States and China sour. For agriculture, that has meant new attention on regulatory hurdles that, thanks to easy and lucrative access to the U.S. market, have lingered quietly for decades save for some short-lived fame during big […] Read more
A close-up of two hands holding some black soil.
Crop Management

Organic farms also need to use soil testing

Take a page from conventional farming and test for soil nutrients and benchmark progress, says Manitoba research tech

Organic crop farmers may be missing out on a valuable source of data by not sampling and testing their soil for nutrients.
A pile of dark compost sits on the ground behind a tandem axle dump truck.
Crop Management

Saskatchewan farm making compost pellets for added fertilizer

Compost pellets are applied with an air seeder in the same pass as the seed and conventional fertilizer

Kyle Heggie has been spreading a unique blend of compost on his crops for years, and has also used on-farm trials to test the practicality of mid-row banding compost “pellets” into the seed row next to the seed.
Mark Lawley (left), Filiz Hazal and Sapna Indrakumar, three of the post-doctorate students working on an animal feed project, pose for a photo in their lab.
News

Coal fuels potential clean animal feed

Research takes methanol from underground coal as a base to produce low-cost protein being eyed for livestock feed

Methanol from unmined coal might help produce the next high-protein, low-carbon-footprint livestock feed.

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