A day in the work life of an agricultural/horticultural scientist, Lisa Jamieson. Follow Lisa Jamieson's inspirational career journey and find out where science can take you.
An overview of cooking sugar and the stages it goes through.
What makes a scientist? Curiosity, a passion for learning, a desire to know how the world works! Meet Melissa Arcand, a scientist at the University of Saskatchewan who grew up on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. Melissa loves science and soil - and she rides a bike all winter in Saskatchewan!
This short video is an interview of Melissa Arcand about her job as a soil scientist. This video fits well when looking at agriculture-related career opportunities.
Experts say the increase in ticks is partly due to longer seasons of warm weather, Laura Sciarpelletti has the full story.
Screw extractors are often called easyouts, these can be used to remove a broken bolt or a broken stud from a tapped hole. Here we demonstrate how to use the screw extractor to remove a broken bolt from a shaft
Meet Livian. He’s part of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Program (SAWP) and has been annually coming from Jamaica to Canada to work on Murray’s apple farm for nearly 20 years! In this video, you’ll hear about his experience, and what the SAWP has meant for him and his family.
An overview of Seed Spraying in Saskatchewan.
Service Hospitality TV outlining the role of a supervisor in ensuring workplace safety.
In this video, we’re going to learn hand and power tool safety and how following the rules just might save you a limb or two. This video is a short overview of tool safety and what kinds of protective equipment can be worn when operating tools.
Are you a part of a cultural landscape? The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 invited visitors to find out by exploring the temporary exhibition Shaping Canada: Exploring Our Cultural Landscapes. Visitors discovered the ways groups and individuals maintain and produce their cultural identities in Canada.
The exhibition featured contemporary portrait photography by Naomi Harris, archival images, oral histories, artifacts and visitors’ participation. It highlighted Canada’s cultural landscapes through seven case studies around key ideas like family, faith, food, recreation and neighbourhood. The result showed aspects of how people create, maintain and experience cultural landscapes across Canada.
The Sheet Bend (ABOK # 1431, p 262) or Weaver’s Knot (ABOK # 485, p 78) is recommended for joining two ropes of unequal size. The thicker rope must be used for the simple bight as shown. However, it works equally well if the ropes are of the same size.
Are you sitting too much?
In this video I discuss some of the effects of sitting too much, a sedentary lifestyle, and some of the ways to deal with sitting too long. I also discuss why sitting is bad, and how it can affect your health.
This video will guide you through the options of coming to Sask Polytech and taking one of our skilled trade certificate programs and what the process is for indenturing as an apprentice to obtain your Red Seal Journeyperson Certification.
Looking to develop, test, or improve skills that can help you get a job, progress in your current role or change jobs? Our Skills for Success program helps you do just that! Below you’ll find more information about what these skills are, along with workbooks, assessments, booklets, and much more! These tools are designed for students and teachers to use in their classes.
Starters, short relievers and long relievers: what skills and traits do they need to fit neatly into each category? What should a coach look for, and how can a player better understand his role as a pitcher in this crazy game of baseball? Answers in this video.
The Slip Knot (ABOK # 529, p 87) is identical in structure to the Noose Knot except that the bight to be inserted is formed from the short end – not the long. The Slip Knot is one of the most frequently tied knots – being used in knitting as the first loop when casting on – where it is called a slip knot but frequently tied as a noose. It can be used as a temporary stopper knot – as shown in the animation
By partnering with our Precision Ag Team, we can help you be more efficient by utilizing these tools during harvest. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2t5pDlu
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This “intelligent sharpshooter” farming robot distinguishes crops from weeds — and it could help feed 10 billion people.Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► h...
We all know that rain can pick up soil and move it off the field. The area drained, the texture, moisture level and condition of the soil, and the roll of the land, all influence the degree and type of erosion a farmer has to deal with. Stick around to learn how to control soil erosion by water on your farm.