Young leaders look at IFAJ 2010 Congress
The IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders award winners give their unique perspectives on the IFAJ 2011 Congress in Belgium. To read or listen to their reports, click here...
Annual congress IFAJ 2011
It’s Canada’s turn next!
By Lilian Schaer, IFAJ 2011 Co-Chair
The IFAJ torch – or should I say flag – has officially been passed to Canada as we formally assumed the role of host nation at the farewell banquet of this year’s congress in Belgium.
The International Federation of Agriculture Journalists (IFAJ) hosts its annual conference, called a congress, in a different member country every year. In 2011, Canada will be welcoming farm writers and agricultural communicators to our country for the first time in over forty years. More...
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Events
Nature
Combine Sunset
Title of the photo/story: Harvest Wisdom Publication: The Corn and Soybean Digest/www.cornandsoybeandigest.com, October, 2007, USA Photographer: Harlen Persinger
Cornfield
Title of the photo/story: Macromanaging Micronutrients Publication: Sept. 2007 issue of Corn & Soybean Digest, USA Photographer: Greg Lamp, Editor
Cornfield SW
Title of the photo/story: Micromanaging Micronutrients Publication: Corn & Soybean Digest, USA Photographer: Susan Winsor, Managing Editor
Dragonfly
Title of the photo/story: Insects like this dragonfly are prolific in rural Japan Comments: part of the broader story "Rice research tops the list" and was published on the 28th September 2007. Publication: www.abc.net.au/rural/features/ruraljapan in September of 2007 Photographer: Edwina Farley, National Reporter, ABC Rural Radio, Australia
Drought in Australia
Title of the photo/story: Drought in Australia Comments:This photo was published along with an article on the drought in Australia. Publication: farmingscotland.com magazine, Issue 43, October 2007, Scotland Photographer: Eilidh MacPherson
Dusty wheat harvest
Title of the photo/story: Dusty, but beautiful wheat harvest in the evening Publication: Land & Forst, Germany Photographer: Christian Muehlhausen
Equilibrium
Title of the photo/story: Equilibrium Publication: Die Burger Wednesday 14 November 2007 Page 8, South Africa Photographer: Theuns Botha
Farm walk
Comments: The picturesque scene on the Farm Walk on Murtagh Walls Farm at Hilltown, Co Down with the mountains of Mourne in the background Publication: Published Irish Farmers Journal 14th June 2007, Northern Ireland Photographer: Columba O'Hare/ Fotacol
Feeling small
Title of the photo/story: Of course we are feeling little Comments: A landscape of a smal forest owner and farmer in Sweden the first snowy day last winter. The couple in the picture – Per and Karin – are up against Swedish nature protection demands from the state. They don't agree and the headline was: Of course we are feeling little Publication: Skogsland 23 november 2007, Sweden Photographer: Rolf Segerstedt
Flowering rape
Title of the photo/story: Used for OSR stories and Bio Fuel features. Publication: Farmers Weekly & CROPS magazine, Various in 2007, England Photographer: Jonathan Page
Harvest evening
Title of the photo/story: "Don't solve life, live it!" Publication: Ontario Farmer - October 16, 2007, Canada Photographer: Anne Howden Thompson
Havelluch
Title of the photo/story: Das Havelluch steht an vielen Stellen unter Wasser (ThereÕs a lot of water in the Havelluch Comments: Havelluch is a region in Eastern Germany. Many spots are flooded by the river Havel. The picture was taken during a report about water management in the region. Publication: Farmers Weekly in Eastern Germany: BauernZeitung Photographer: Fritz Fleege
IceOwl
Title of the photo/story: Closing thought Comments: The photo was published with a poem in our Feb issue. That spring, we happened to have a historic freeze which damaged the fruit crops in the state Publication: Published Feb 2007, Today's Farmer magazine, USA Photographer: James Fashing
Landscape with cows
Title of the photo/story: Building on experience for a sustainable future Comments: Publication: Farmers Guardian on 14.9.2007, England Photographer: John Eveson
Lice flies on bird
Title of the photo/story: Louse flies on birds and other ectoparasites, an interesting, inherent part of the animal world Comments: These louse flies are widely found and that birds, like the southern ant eating chat, sometimes sit down in ant nests and then open their wings for the ants to climb on and remove the mites and lice. Publication: OVK Nuus News Photographer: MC Fourie
Nature in South Africa
Title of the photo/story: Farmer cashes in on conservation Publication: Landbouweekblad Issue Nr 1500; 11 May 2007) South Africa Photographer: Charl van Rooyen
Northern Ireland
Title of the photo/story: Working careers span almost to 100 years on a hill. Story: two men who between them worked 100 years on this hill retired from the Department of Agriculture Publication: Farm Week Newspaper from Northern Ireland, January 19, 2007 Photographer: Chris McCullough
Odervalley with sheep
Title of the photo/story: Schafe sind in Deutschland weniger von einer BTV-8-Infektion gefährdet als Rinder (Sheep are less infected by the virus BTV-8 than cattle) Comments: The photo was taken in the valley of the river Oder in Eastern Germany. The river Oder is the frontier between Germany and Poland. The river valley is a good pasture for sheep. The grazing sheep protect the dykes, the dykes protect the land from floods. Publication: farmers weekly in Eastern Germany, Bauernzeitung, May, 18, 2007, Germany Photographer: Annekatrin Pischelt
Poppysky
Comments: The photo shows the famous sky in Schleswig-.Holstein, a typical rural region in Northern Germany. Poppy is a traditional plant of this region. It grows along streets and fields. On the photo, it is flowering along wheat fields. Publication: farmers weekly in Northern Germany, Bauernblatt, No 42, 2007, Germany Photographer: H. Dietrich Habbe
Sunflower
Title of the photo/story: The Art of Agriculture Publication: AGRAR MAGAZINE, Serbia Photographer: Slavoljub Eric
Sunset
Title of the photo/story: Myanmar Publication: in the book Just Add Water, published in Canada Photographer: Les Kletke
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Comments: The picture shows the enterence of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault which is designed to provide ultimate, secure protection for plant genetics resources for food and agriculture from all countries in the world, against all kind of catastrophes. Publication: Aasnytt no. 12/ 2007 p. 16-18. Norway Photographer: Even Bratberg
Village
Comments: Image used as the back cover of Partners magazine which reports on agricultural research in developing countries. Partners is produced by Coretext for the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Publication: Partners, July-October 2007, page 32, australia Photographer: Brad Collis
