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Wheat Country

1959 20 min
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Here is a film showing how each spring, prairie farmers renew their gamble with wind, frost, drought, rust and hail to begin again the cycle that may bring a good, or a lean, year. This story of big-scale wheat farming is told by a farm woman whose sons represent the fourth generation to operate a Saskatchewan farm.

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Here is a film showing how each spring, prairie farmers renew their gamble with wind, frost, drought, rust and hail to begin again the cycle that may bring a good, or a lean, year. This story of big-scale wheat farming is told by a farm woman whose sons represent the fourth generation to operate a Saskatchewan farm.

  • director
    Roger Blais
  • producer
    Tim Wilson
  • executive producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • script
    Noel Stone
  • photography
    John Gunn
  • sound
    Kathleen Shannon
  • editing
    Dennis Sawyer
  • music
    Louis Applebaum

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