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NovAtel Inc.
NovAtel is a leading provider of precise global positioning system (GPS) and augmentation components and sub-systems designed for rapid integration and exceptional return on investment for our customers.
DirectoryScience
DirectoryScience.com contains links to agriculture, electrical engineering, software for engineering, physics and astronomy, environmental health, social sciences, space, technology, forestry and more. DirectoryScience.com is designed to be your one-stop destination for anything you can think of that is about or related to science.
Food Engineering Magazine
Food Engineering has been covering the food and beverage industry since 1928. Published 12 times per year, this magazine reports on the latest trends, products, technologies and issues affecting manufacturing in the food and beverage industry.
Eigen Factor Science Browser
Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal.
Podcast Episode 1: Geographic Information Systems
 Soil to Sky: Geographic Information Systems: Play Now
A relatively new technology that is being quickly applied to agriculture and food production in Alberta is the use of mapping technology, known as Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. After all, agriculture and food production are both about using the land and moving goods around the province, country, and even the world. We wanted to see how some of this technology was being applied in real operations, so we spoke with Greg Stamp, of Stamp Seeds located in Enchant Alberta, just north of Lethbridge. Greg is a recent graduate of the University of Lethbridge, and did a specialization in mapping and GIS.
Davis-Rairdan International
Davis-Rairdan Embryo Transplants Ltd. currently enjoys a large market share of domestic beef cattle embryo transplant business in Western Canada, implanting an average of 2000 embryos annually.
Beefbooster Inc.
Beefbooster Inc. is an Alberta-based research and genetics firm specializing in selectively-bred, high-quality cattle stock.
Monsanto Agriculture Scholarships
Rural graduating students from across the country who plan to pursue studies in agriculture or forestry will have the opportunity to earn a $1,500 entrance scholarship this summer by applying for a Monsanto Canada Opportunity Scholarship.
NAIT, Landscape Architectural Technology Program
Landscape architecture is the profession committed to the creation of meaningful and vital outdoor places and to the sustainable management of our environment. Landscape architects strive to establish a balance between our use and enjoyment of the land with the conservation and health of the environment.
Red Deer College, BSc in Agriculture Transfer Program
Red Deer College | BSc in Agriculture is a one year university transfer program where students in the BSc Agriculture degree program must choose one major: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Animal Science, Crop and Horticultural Science, Range and Pasture Management or Sustainable Agricultural Systems. This must be chosen before entering the third year but may be chosen as early as the beginning of the first year.
University of Calgary | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary – Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) is Canada’s fifth accredited veterinary college. Students at UCVM will receive a comprehensive veterinary education, with enhanced educational opportunities in four areas of emphasis: production animal health, public and ecosystem health, equine health and investigative medicine.
ECO Canada (Enviromental Careers Organization)
ECO Canada develops programs that meet both the demand of employers (recruitment and retention tools and human resource materials) and facilitates the supply of labour by providing practitioners and students with career resources, internships, and certification.
North American Weed Management Association
North American Weed Management Association (NAWMA) is a network of public and private professional weed managers who are involved in implementing any phase of a county, municipal, district, state, provincial or federal noxious weed law.
University of Lethbridge, Bachelor of Arts or Science, Agricultural Studies
Students enrolled in the Agricultural Studies programs are offered the opportunity to study agriculture in lab-extensive programs that provide excellent practical experience with special emphasis on issues, research, and courses related and relevant to agriculture.
Lethbridge Research Centre
The Lethbridge Research Centre is the largest agricultural research establishment within the Research Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Lethbridge Research Centre’S (LRC) research is focused in the areas of environmental health, bioproducts and bioprocesses, food safety and nutrition, and sustainable production systems.
Lacombe Research Centre
The Lacombe Research Centre, a research centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is located in the town of Lacombe in central Alberta between the two large cities of Edmonton and Calgary, approximately 23 km north of Red Deer.
Toxicologist
Catherine Italiano lives and works in the city, but her job focuses on farms. As a toxicologist, she studies “livestock feed”; the food given to farm animals. Her job is to make sure the food is safe for animals, for any humans who eat meat, milk or eggs from those animals and for the environment.
Agriculture Communications Manager
Take an onion and crush it. What do you get? At a place called SABIC (Saskatchewan Agricultural Biotechnology Information Centre), by adding a few simple ingredients, you get the onion’s DNA. The onion-crushing experiment is part of SABIC’s programme to educate people about biotechnology.
Environmental Field Technician
Jason Chiasson rarely sees the inside of an office; he’s too busy in the field, where the action is. As field technician for Geobac Technology Group, a company that specialises in decontaminating soil and groundwater, Jason’s job is supervising the team that cleans up environmental messes such as oil and gas spills.
Research and Development Manager
Back in 1970s, greenhouse growers in British Columbia began to realise that some of the chemical pesticides they were using were dangerous. They called Agriculture Canada, who started looking for alternatives. Agriculture Canada handed the problem over to Don Elliott, an entomologist (insect scientist). Don is an expert in developing beneficials, insects that act as natural pesticides themselves by killing insects that eat commercially-grown plants and vegetables. They are possibly the most environmentally friendly pesticides on the planet!
Research and Development Lab Manager
David Cameron makes his living from yeast. He doesn’t bake bread or brew beer. He helps a company called Tembec Inc. use yeast to create alcohol from wood.
Research and Development Lab Assistant
A passion for plants, developed as a young girl working for relatives in a nursery, led Julie Brais to choose a biotechnology career. Today, she works as a research technician for Performance Plants, a company working on projects such as improving crops’ cold and frost resistance and genetically altering them to increase their yield.
BASF Canada
BASF Canada provides hundreds of products that may end up in merchandise that add comfort and convenience to everyday life.
Western Grains Research Foundation
Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) is a farmer funded and directed organization set up to fund research that directly benefits Prairie farmers. The Foundation administers an Endowment Fund and the Wheat and Barley Check-off Funds. Annual research funding is $4 to $5 million.
Atlantic Veterinary College
The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island is committed to excellence and innovation in teaching, research, and service. The college is dedicated to educating the veterinary medicine and research leaders of tomorrow.
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More Than You Think!
The agriculture and food industry has a lot more opportunity than you might have imagined including careers in production and processing, and also science, technology, and all sorts of management roles. Our Career Profiles directory is also packed with lots of useful information and features to help you find the right kind of career for you.
Maybe you are looking for a new career opportunity through training and education. Perhaps you're thinking about building your work skills and experience to improve your current career? Or, it could be that you looking for a new way to use the skills you already have to find the job you want?
We think we can help. Soil to Sky is your directory to web-based information about agriculture, food, and everything you might need to build a rewarding, balanced career in our industry.
Can you answer just ten questions?
Soil to Sky has launched The Ten Questions Project, a wide-reaching survey for folks with jobs in the agriculture and food industry. Even if you don't think you have the most exciting career going, someone wants to know what you do every day -- its the information our users crave as they plan their own career paths. Click on the link and take a few minutes to tell us about your career. Somebody will be glad you did!
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Right now other great websites are helping you find careers in industries supporting the agriculture and food industry. Not sure if we're exactly what you're looking for? Why not visit one of our partner sites.
ECO Canada has Canada's Largest Environmental Job Board with hundreds of employers posting new environmental career opportunities every day -- and many of those are directly related to agriculture and food production!
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