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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

(left to right): Sam Hamam (McDonald’s Canada), Kristine Tapley (Cargill), Laura Buss (CRSB youth councillor), Ryan Beierbach (CRSB chair). Photo: CRSB
Livestock

McDonald’s, Cargill fund youth councillor position with Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

By Jeff Melchior 5 days ago
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef’s youth councillor will be supported in her role with funding from McDonalds’s Canada and Cargill.

Jan. 22.
Photo: Dave Bedard
News

Canadian GDP growth slow down expected in 2026, FCC says

By Jeff Melchior January 23, 2026
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farm Credit Canada expects continued trade woes and mortgage renewals to weigh on Canada’s economic growth in 2026


Kochia is among the herbicide-resistant weeds FMC Canada’s 2026 crop protection lineup aims to control. File photo
Crops

FMC Canada unveils 2026 crop protection roster

By Jeff Melchior January 16, 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minute FMC Canada’s crop protection lineup for 2026 will include four products marketed for control of kochia.

Lentil plants in bloom. (BasieB/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

New Syngenta fungicide targets anthracnose, white mould, Ascochyta blight

By Jeff Melchior January 15, 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lentil growers in Canada have a new option for controlling three major disease threats to the crop.


Photo: Getty Images Plus
Crops, News

CFIA looks for feedback on proposed seed potato rule changes

By Jeff Melchior January 10, 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking for public and industry input on proposed amendments to regulations around seed potatoes.

African swine fever can spread through contaminated feed or feed ingredients. Photo: Dave Bedard
Livestock, News

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

By Jeff Melchior December 12, 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has added Spain to a list of countries subject to feed import controls due to an outbreak of African swine fever in that country.


File photo of a CFIA vehicle. Photo: Dave Bedard
News

CFIA updates plant protection regulations

By Jeff Melchior December 3, 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says updated plant protection regulations will allow it to be more agile.

A press conference spotlighting the struggles of Canadian beekeepers took place in Ottawa Nov. 25.  Left to right: Peter Awram, Canadian Beekeepers Federation; Curtis Miedema, president, Alberta Beekeepers Commission; MP Arnold Viersen; Owen Miedema; Amber Ozero, director, Alberta Beekeepers Commission; Connie Phillips, executive director, Alberta Beekeepers Commission and Richard Ozero, Good Morning Honey. Photo: Joel Oosterman.
Livestock, News

Canadian beekeepers warn of advancing tropilaelaps mite

By Jeff Melchior November 26, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Beekeeping Federation called a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday to highlight the rise of the tropilaelaps mite (colloquially referred to as the “t-mite”).


Photo: Patrick Hatt/iStock/Getty Images
Livestock, News

African swine fever risk tightens feed ingredient trade rules with Taiwan

By Jeff Melchior November 3, 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minute Plant-based ingredients bound for Canadian livestock feed will have stricter trade rules if the shipments come from Taiwan, following Canadian Food Inspection Agency changes

Photo: Getty Images Plus

Organic groups release public-private action plan for sector growth

By Jeff Melchior October 29, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes A coalition of Canadian organic groups are asking the federal government to adopt their public-private plan for sector growth and competativeness.


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