I want a list of ways Canadians and Canada can be more productive.

Here is my start:

1. Embrace AI tools
2. Take time for collective creative thinking
3. Listen to the fringe thinkers

Please add to this list

I wrote more on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-wh...

Open-ended poll question...

What are the best coffee shops on the Canadian Prairies for:

1) Coffee
2) Food (specific recommendations welcome)
3) And conversation (especially but not only about farming)

I'd like to visit some of them

#westcdnag #bestcoffee

Agronomists, CCAs and retails, the final CanoLab 2025 is…

April 9 - Saskatoon - 10:00-3:00

Topics: Verticillium stripe ID, choose the right blackleg R, insect scouting tips, and soil test tells.

4 CEUs

#Saskatchewan #farming #agriculture

Info + reg:
www.canolacouncil.org/event/saskat...

CanoLAB 2025 is over for Alberta but agronomists in Manitoba and Saskatchewan still have time to register for theirs.

April 3 in Brandon

April 9 in Saskatoon

Info and registration: www.canolacouncil.org/events/

@CanolaGrowers @SaskOilseeds @PrairieCCA #westcdnag

My Canola Council of Canada colleagues will host CanoLABs 2025 at three locations:

-March 19 in Edmonton
-April 3 in Brandon
-April 9 in Saskatoon

CEUs are available.

Registration and info: canolacouncil.org/events/

#farming #agriculture #agronomy

I just renewed my Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association membership, then registered for this election forum on March 18.

@edwhite.bsky.social @ashleyrobinson.bsky.social

#canada #communications #farmwriters

mfwba.ca/events-oppor...

At #cdncrops25, economist Todd Hirsch talked about the importance of building connections with others.

“At the heart of the economy is human connection,” Hirsch says.

No connections, no #economy.

Ergo, more connections, bigger economy?

toddhirsch.com

"We are all people."

Justice Acoose of the National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food is our guest this week on @theextensionists.bsky.social podcast. Find it anywhere.

I also swim beyond my depth in a conversation about gaming as a communication tool. #scicomm #farming #canada

Turns out crowd-sourcing is a very old concept.

I’m reading Simon Winchester’s superb book “The Professor and the Madman” about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. This was the idea, floated in the 1850s, with project launch in the 1870s…

I shared a bit about my Cornish-ness in the @winnipegfreepress.com this weekend. #cornwall #southwestcoastpath #goodwalks

www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/2025/...

On the latest episode MPSG's Daryl Domitruk shares that agriculture extension may be the key to helping farmers handle the ever-growing list of expectations that are being placed on them #westcdnag www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXji...

I write and talk about agriculture. This is the opening for my January Canola Digest column… (see photo)

It covers an interesting LinkedIn conversation. I love when social media is truly social.

Read it all: canoladigest.ca/january-2025...

@fielddirt.bsky.social @merlemassie.bsky.social

I love this...

"I would say the greatest skill in effective extension is empathy."

Extension = sharing ideas with farmers

Tracy Herbert with the Beef Cattle Research Council says this in the latest episode of The Extensionists.

Find the podcast anywhere.

#communications #agriculture #farming

Find joy in simple things, and in the village where you live.

A blue sky photo from Winnipeg, Manitoba…

Keep an open mind. Look for opportunities. Recognize that change is slow, especially with me.

A blue sky photo near Gorran Haven, Cornwall…

Appreciate people as they are. Ask how they got there.

A blue sky photo taken near Hartney, Manitoba…