This collection houses assets (or resources) from Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre's Agriculture Production (Field Crop) A30 course.
In this Farm Basics segment, the Hefty brothers stress the importance of road safety around farm vehicles during planting season.
Would you know what to do if you struck a power line with your farm equipment? These tips could save your life if you ever come into contact with a power line.
A high school environmental science teacher supplemental resource.
Insect scouting information at your fingertips. This guide is full of great images and practical tips that will help you:
Identify and manage insect pests and identify and protect beneficial insects.
This unique insect guide links the pests that can damage your crops to the predators that help to control them. You’ll want to access this valuable tool while scouting your fields this season.
The First Nations Perspective on Health and Wellness aims to visually depict and describe the First Nations Health Authority Vision: Healthy, Self-Determining and Vibrant BC First Nations Children, Families and Communities.
This visual depiction of the Perspective on Health and Wellness is a tool for the FNHA and First Nations Communities. It aims to create a shared understanding of an holistic vision of wellness. This image is just a snapshot of a fluid concept of wellness: it can be adapted and customized freely and is not confined to remain the same.
Brian and Darren Hefty explain how farmers maximize efficiency and profitability by using technology to selectively apply fertilizer.
With the G.A.P. in Action initiative, GLOBALG.A.P. is inviting everyone to join us on our mission to spread good agricultural practices around the world. To do so, we have developed this video giving an introducing into the integrated pest management (IPM) concept. The video is based on the IPM poster out of our series of 15 G.A.P. in Action posters - a series of instructional posters breaking down complex food safety standards into basic implementation instructions.
VirtualJobShadow.com - Day in the life of GIS Agricultural Analyst
This video outlines information about GMOs and their purposes.
GRoW is an advanced robot made for precision greenhouse harvesting. This machine will autonomously move throughout the greenhouse scanning and choosing vegetables ready to be picked from the vine. GRoW moves up and down the rows of the greenhouse unmanned and then is driven to the next row via a phone app. The phone app also lets you configure which ripeness to harvest and where on the vine to make the cut. GRoW will record and predict productivity to ensure optimum performance.
The idea behind this hierarchy is that the control methods at the top of the graphic are potentially more effective and protective than those at the bottom. Following this hierarchy normally leads to the implementation of inherently safer systems, where the risk of illness or injury has been substantially reduced.
This video outlines some examples of agricultural technology that is changing farming production.
A corn planter has to consistently put millions of seeds at the right depth and spacing. How does it do it? Joe Ligo looks inside a 4-row Kinze planter to find out.
A Parkview paramedic shares the best items to keep in your vehicle in case of an emergency.
Meghan Vankosky, Entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, breaks down sweep net technique in this how-to video series.
More and more Indigenous communities are looking into agriculture as an economic opportunity and what it means for First Nation’s people and their future.
In this video, the leaders of Pelican Lake First Nation talk about the positive effects farming has had on their community including the creation of jobs and the long-lasting benefits for their younger generation.
More and more Indigenous communities are looking into agriculture as an economic opportunity and what it means for First Nation’s people and their future.
In this video, the leaders of Pelican Lake First Nation talk about the positive effects farming has had on their community including the creation of jobs and the long-lasting benefits for their younger generation.
The Indigenous Wellness Framework Reference Guide stems from Honouring Our Strengths: Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment, a three-year study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Led by a partnership between the Assembly of First Nations, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation and the University of Saskatchewan, the study examined the strengths of First Nations culture in drug and alcohol treatment.
This infographic provides information about agricultural mental health taken from the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.
This video compares practices used in conventional and organic farming productions.