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  • How Could Agri-environmental Policies Evolve?

    How Could Agri-environmental Policies Evolve?

    What will future Canadian agri-environmental policies look like? The answer to this question depends, of course, on who you ask. There are many models on which future Canadian policy could be based. I’ve encountered a number of them in recent months, through conversations and travels as a Canadian Nuffield Scholar. Some focus on carbon emissions…

  • How Burr Forest Got its Name

    How Burr Forest Got its Name

    Burr Forest is a loose translation of the Lower German word Burlwalde. My family’s farm was settled in the late 1800s. It is nestled along the edge of what I grew up calling the Burwalde Woods. This, I would later learn, is a redundancy. A scholar and family friend casually mentioned to me one day…

  • Canola – Aerial Crop Protection

    Canola – Aerial Crop Protection

    This pilot is protecting a healthy canola field that has seen a tremendous amount of rain and is currently thriving under much-needed dry and hot conditions. We are grateful to the brave pilots who undertake this risky, needed, and spectator-friendly task to ensure our crops are healthy and abundant. We are similarly grateful for the…

  • Prairie Storm

    Prairie Storm

    On June 12, 2024 a storm manifesting in a variety of ways – from devastating to spectacular – blew over parts of central Canada and the U.S. The drone shots were taken directly above my farmyard in southern Manitoba a few minutes before the system arrived. It brought hail, strong, gale-force winds, and rain. The…

  • Harvesting Expert Insights: Burr Forest Group’s Takeaways from Unveiling the Narrative

    Harvesting Expert Insights: Burr Forest Group’s Takeaways from Unveiling the Narrative

    Part of our jobs at Burr Forest Group is to learn. Learn about the work our clients are doing and learn about how we can help them share that work with farmers. While we already know a lot about how to share information, there are always ways we can improve.  Part of this learning is…

  • Emerging Cereals

    Emerging Cereals

    This photo gallery, with accompanying video, features recently-emerged wheat and barley seeded in southern Manitoba between April 23 and April 25. If you are interested in using any of these images or if you need custom photography and/or videography services, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

  • Rethinking Policy and Research Communications While We Have the Chance

    Rethinking Policy and Research Communications While We Have the Chance

    We had just over 100 acres left to harvest when our combine caught fire becoming a mass of burnt steel and melted plastic. That mass is still sitting in the middle of my field today.  It was getting dark. We were about to shut down for the night. My dad was on the combine harvesting…

  • Agriculture Research, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Distinction Between Clarifying and Simplifying

    Agriculture Research, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Distinction Between Clarifying and Simplifying

    I studied philosophy and politics in university. I did this a long time ago – early 2000s

  • Agriculture Needs to Speak Clearly

    Agriculture Needs to Speak Clearly

    Imagine three circles (warning: this is going to be a Venn diagram when we’re done). One circle – let’s call it agriculture – contains the entire agricultural industry. The second circle – services – contains the entire service industry, from practical things you or your business use, like, say, graphic design or policy analysis, to…

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