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Jeff Melchior is a reporter for Glacier FarmMedia publications. He grew up on a mixed farm in northern Alberta until the age of twelve and spent his teenage years and beyond in rural southern Alberta around the city of Lethbridge. Jeff has decades’ worth of experience writing for the broad agricultural industry in addition to community-based publications. He has a Communication Arts diploma from Lethbridge College (now Lethbridge Polytechnic) and is a two-time winner of Canadian Farm Writers Federation awards.


Stories by Jeff Melchior

The Canadian beef industry has long decried regulatory issues that it says serves as a non-tariff barrier, keeping Canadian meat out of European markets. Photo: Geralyn Wichers
Livestock

Cattle group asks Canada to break off U.K. trade agreement

By Jeff Melchior 12 hours ago
Canadian Cattle Association cites little effort to fix ‘non-tariff barriers,’ which they say have already been a problem for getting Canadian beef market access to the U.K.

Holstein cattle earmarked for veal chow down in a feedlot. PHOTO: FARM & FOOD CARE ONTARIO
Beef Cattle, Livestock, News

Confusion cleared on Canadian calf import changes

By Jeff Melchior 2 days ago
A Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announcement on import regulations for feeder calves caused some confusion on the administrative side of Canada’s cattle industry earlier this month


Canada’s postal strike has complicated sample submission to the Canadian Grain Commission’s Harvest Sample Program. Photo: Greg Berg
Crops, News

Mail strike disrupts grain sample delivery

By Jeff Melchior October 7, 2025
The Canadian Grain Commission has asked farmers to consider delivering harvest samples directly to CGC offices, services centres or approved drop offs as Canada Post strike delays mail.

The trade drama with U.S. dairy access to Canada continues. Photo: Diana Martin
Livestock, News

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

By Jeff Melchior October 1, 2025
Globe and Mail article suggests U.S. dairy access to Canada is back as a topic of conversation in Ottawa


Researchers and agri-science companies are having challenges creating methane inhibition solutions suitable for cattle on pasture. Photo: Geralyn Wichers
Research, Sustainability, Technology

Methane-reducing solutions for beef cattle have a ways to go, say Canadian scientists

Developers struggle with complexities of cattle rumen, logistics of cattle on pasture and lack of incentives for Canadian producers

By Jeff Melchior September 26, 2025
Companies developing vaccines that inhibit methane (CH4) production in cattle are facing challenges, say experts, and in the process finding their development is more complex than first thought.

Farm Credit Canada gave its latest Canadian economic forecast Sept. 18. Photo: file
News

Canadian economy going ‘under the speed limit,’ says FCC analyst

By Jeff Melchior September 18, 2025
Farm Credit Canada outlined less than impressive numbers for Canada’s economy Sept. 18, and that will spill over into agriculture.


Wheat varieties on display at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research plots outside Brandon on Aug. 7, 2025. Photo: Miranda Leybourne
Crops, News

Review coming for Canadian wheat breeding

By Jeff Melchior September 15, 2025
Canadian Wheat Research Coalition says review of the wheat breeding innovation system will make sure research meets farmer needs.

Several beekeeping groups in Canada have been pushing for the border to reopen to American bulk packaged bees. Photo: File
Livestock

CFIA rejects beekeeper proposals on U.S. packaged bees

The CFIA was unconvinced that suggested measures could offset the risk of importing bee pests along with bulk bee replacement stock

By Jeff Melchior August 8, 2025
The CFIA was unconvinced that suggested measures could offset the risk of importing bee pests along with bulk bee replacement stock.


Beekeepers have a new option to help their hive health. Photo: Miranda Leybourne
Livestock

New bee health product receives federal approval

Hops provide the key ingredient for a new bee immunity tool approved for beekeeper use in Canada

By Jeff Melchior May 29, 2025
Hops provide the key ingredient for a new bee immunity tool approved for beekeeper use in Canada by Health Canada.

A New Zealandd biotech startup is promising a vaccine that could dramatically reduce methane emissions from livestock. PHOTO: FILE
Livestock, News

Kiwi startup promises methane vaccine for cattle

New Zealand company in running for investment in emission-reducing treatment for livestock

By Jeff Melchior May 22, 2025
A New Zealand biotech startup says it has a vaccine that can dramatically lower methane emissions from livestock.


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