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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…
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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
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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…
Featured Case Studies
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Burr Forest Group’s Effective Extension Training Program
Read this case study: Burr Forest Group’s Effective Extension Training ProgramIntroduction In 2025, after years of development and many conversations, Burr Forest Group (BFG) launched its Effective Extension training program. This unique and tailored program took shape from the many consultations we had with agriculture commodity associations and other farm groups from across Western Canada. It was built to address the widening and increasingly felt…
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Making Research Accessible: Cluster Knowledge Translation & Transfer
Read this case study: Making Research Accessible: Cluster Knowledge Translation & TransferIntroduction In 2023, the Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) received federal funding for the fourth Canadian AgriScience Cluster for Horticulture from 2023 to 2028. As part of the Cluster initiative, FVGC was responsible for conducting Knowledge Translation and Transfer (known in the industry as KTT) activities over the five-year period to keep stakeholders,…
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Summarizing Technical Presentations: Research Conference Report
Read this case study: Summarizing Technical Presentations: Research Conference ReportCase Study CLIENT Soy Canada Introduction Soy Canada was pleased to welcome back the National Soy Research Conference in January 2024. The conference drew together researchers from across the Canadian soybean industry to share updates and results of their research. Burr Forest Group (BFG) was entrusted with the critical task of covering this information-heavy and…
