Jay Whetter grew up on Chain Lakes Farm near Dand, Manitoba and has been a farm journalist since 1998. He started in radio, moved quickly to print, then expanded to podcasting. He is the editor of Canola Digest magazine, coordinates the Canola Council of Canada’s Canola Watch agronomy updates, and writes regularly for the Glacier farm papers. He and his friend Toban Dyck co-host The Extensionists podcast. Jay is also co-instructing a class, “Current issues in agriculture and food,” at the University of Manitoba this term. Career highlights include selection for the literary journalism residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2022, Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation “Farm Writer of the Year” in 2021, and the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program in 2008.