This week, on page 90, we start an agronomy column in The Western Producer called Agronomy Precisely and it will feature two columnists. In fact, they’re so new, we haven’t even got their photos, but we’ll fix that shortly. They will alternate and from time to time might even speak to the same subjects, each from their own perspective.
I’ve been anticipating this column for some time. I had hoped to launch it ahead of harvest, but the timing didn’t work out.
For many of our readers in Manitoba and Alberta, this is now the post-harvest period. In Saskatchewan, the crop isn’t fully in the bin, but it’s getting close.
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So I am hoping this is the right time to start hearing from these new voices in our 90-year-old publication. They join a chorus of well-read views that the Producer has published over the decades and I am sure they too will provide insights into production agriculture from a prairie perspective.
Garth Donald from Decisive Farming in Alberta and Thom Weir of Farmer’s Edge in Manitoba will be our new columnists.
Both have significant experience in the latest agronomic technology and research and hail from companies that operate prairie wide.
The columns will offer their personal, professional opinions about the choices that producers might be making and the challenges of modern agronomy, both technological and biological.
We’re looking forward to this addition and I am confident their insights will prove interesting and profitable.
