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Geralyn Wichers

Geralyn Wichers

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Geralyn graduated from Red River College's Creative Communications program in 2019 and launched directly into agricultural journalism with the Manitoba Co-operator. Her enterprising, colourful reporting has earned awards such as the Dick Beamish award for current affairs feature writing and a Canadian Online Publishing Award, and in 2023 she represented Canada in the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists' Alltech Young Leaders Program. Geralyn is a co-host of the Armchair Anabaptist podcast, cat lover, and thrift store connoisseur.

 


Stories by Geralyn Wichers

University of California, Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam poses with cattle in a cattle pen in this 2017 photo. Photo: UC Davis
Dairy, Genetics, Livestock

Developing nations outpace Canada on gene-editing livestock

How do Canada and its current regulatory approach compare to other countries?

By Geralyn Wichers 14 hours ago
Canada may want to gauge how Argentina and other countries have approached gene editing in livestock and what that has meant for local innovation in developing countries.

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald speaks at the CAPI conference in Ottawa, Oct. 1
News

Federal agriculture minister to meet with Chinese officials, business leaders

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By Geralyn Wichers 18 hours ago
Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald is in China this week in hopes of strengthening agricultural ties between the countries.


Cattle on a feedlot. PHOTO: FILE
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall sharply as Trump says he’s working to lower beef costs

By Geralyn Wichers October 17, 2025
Chicago cattle futures fell sharply on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration was working to lower the cost of beef. “We are working on beef, and I think […] Read more

A field of soybeans.
Markets/Business, News

U.S. agricultural trade in a widening deficit, study shows

By Geralyn Wichers October 10, 2025
U.S. agricultural imports now exceed exports and the deficit is expected to worsen, according to a study from the University of Illinois.

Heat waves are seen on an unusually warm September day as a farmer unloads his combine hopper into a waiting wagon as he harvests a soybean field in western Iowa in rural Woodbury County, Monday, September 29, 2025. Photo: Jerry Mennenga/ZUMA Press Wire
News

U.S. agricultural trade in a widening deficit, study shows

By Geralyn Wichers October 10, 2025
U.S. agricultural imports now exceed exports and the deficit is expected to worsen, according to a study from the University of Illinois.


Immigrant farmworker picking produce in the field.
News

Thirty-six employers banned from Temporary Foreign Worker program, federal agency says

By Geralyn Wichers October 7, 2025
In the last fiscal year, 36 employers were banned from the Temporary Foreign Worker program — a threefold increase from the previous year — the federal government said this week.

Photo: Tigerstrawberry/Getty Images Plus
News

Thirty-six employers banned from Temporary Foreign Worker program, federal agency says

By Geralyn Wichers October 7, 2025
In the last fiscal year, 36 employers were banned from the Temporary Foreign Worker program — a threefold increase from the previous year — the federal government said this week.

 Photo: Jacqueline Nix/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures spike, hogs mixed

By Geralyn Wichers October 6, 2025
Chicago cattle futures closed sharply up on Monday while lean hog futures were mixed. “Two large trades were seen at two different levels in the feeder cattle market, suggesting this […] Read more


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Machinery, News

Association of Equipment Manufacturers sets up lobby in Ottawa

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By Geralyn Wichers October 3, 2025
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, an organization representing North America’s agriculture and construction equipment makers, is setting up an office in Ottawa.

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Machinery, News

Association of Equipment Manufacturers sets up lobby in Ottawa

By Geralyn Wichers October 3, 2025
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, an organization representing North America’s agriculture and construction equipment makers, is setting up an office in Ottawa.

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