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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 glasshouse is a facility that enables researchers to develop experimental climates. BASF’s will be designed to support future canola hybrid breeding programs. Photo: Supplied
Canola, Crops, News

BASF announces $27M Saskatoon canola breeding facility expansion

By Jeff Melchior March 17, 2026
BASF is investing $27 million to expand its Canola Breeding Centre of Innovation in Saskatoon with the hopes of refining and accelerating the development of hybrid canola.

Photo: Mahindra Ag North America video screengrab via YouTube
Machinery, News

Mahindra moving forward with new tractors, post-split

Mahindra Ag North America announces its transition away from the Mitsubishi Mahindra Agriculture joint venture

By Jeff Melchior March 13, 2026
Despite the dissolution of a key joint venture, farm tractor manufacturer Mahindra Ag says a new product lineup will be rolling out over 2026 and 2027.


Tianli Agri-King. PHOTO: DYNAMIC TIRE
Equipment, Machinery, Traction & Compaction

Ag tire manufacturer offers up a lifetime warranty

Chinese-made Tianli tires put in service after Jan. 1 covered against defects

By Jeff Melchior March 12, 2026
An unlimited-time warranty will apply against any manufacturer or “raw material” defects on all Tianli-branded radial ag tires that enter service after Jan. 1, 2026.

File photo of wild oats. Pic: Mike Raine
Crops

Think beyond the herbicide jug when dealing with wild oats

With no new chemistries on the horizon, Prairie farmers will need to focus on cultural control

By Jeff Melchior March 11, 2026
With herbicide resistance building fast and no new chemistries to control wild oat on the horizon, Prairie farmers will need to focus on cultural control as a way to manage the weed.


Photo: File
Livestock, News

Egg Farmers of Canada, University of Guelph appoint new poultry welfare research chair

By Jeff Melchior February 26, 2026
The Egg Farmers of Canada and the University of Guelph have a new research chair tasked with driving poultry welfare research.

(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 February 9, 2026
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
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
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
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
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking for public and industry input on proposed amendments to regulations around seed potatoes.


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