Readers of both Grainews and Country Guide will quickly recognize the new name at the top of Grainews’ masthead starting next month.
Lyndsey Smith, a writer and editor with Winnipeg ag publishing house Farm Business Communications since 2005, was announced Tuesday as the farming magazine’s new editor effective March 1, replacing Jay Whetter.
Smith hails from a mixed farm near Lorette, Man., about 25 km southeast of Winnipeg, and received a diploma in crop production from the University of Manitoba in 2001.
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After a short stint with a British Columbia guest ranch, she returned to farm writing with the Winnipeg publishing firm Issues Ink. She later served as communications co-ordinator for the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC), before joining Farm Business Communications as an associate editor with Country Guide.
Since joining Farm Business Communications, Smith has edited several of its specialized crop production magazines, including Wheat Oats and Barley and Canola Guide, while writing for Grainews and Country Guide.
Smith will edit Grainews from northwest of Regina at Lumsden, Sask., where she and her family now live.
Grainews was established in 1975 as a policy-oriented paper for farmer members of United Grain Growers (UGG), and since then has evolved into a crop production magazine for Prairie grain growers, well known for practical production advice from the farm-gate level.
The magazine and its sister books in the Farm Business Communications division were sold in 2003 by UGG, which by then had merged into Agricore United (now part of Viterra), to Vancouver publishing firm Glacier Ventures International.
Whetter, who works out of Kenora, Ont., has been recruited by the Canola Council of Canada to manage a new-media project supplying time-sensitive production information to canola growers.
