This week we're delighted to have Denise Bonin-Mount on Flock Talk. Denise is a first-generation with a ton of experience and was recently featured as part of the Canadian Agriculture International Year of the Woman Farmer campaign. Denise shares her untraditional story from traveling the world to farming which she got into later on in her life. Denise talks about getting started with livestock, getting serious about becoming a career farmer, seizing opportunity, overcoming challenges, lessons learned and so much more!

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Julianna Tindall is a masters student with the University of Guelph and joins the podcast to discuss her research project, looking at how grazing cover crops with sheep or beef cattle effects soil health and the yield of the following crop on Ontario farms. Julianna shares some surprise findings in her research and reveals some of the biggest opportunities for sheep farmers using this system. Julianna talks about situations where grazing cover crops works well and when it doesn't and gives producers strategies to convince crop farms of the benefits of grazing cover crops. Julianna shares what she's learned working with producers and what has challenged her assumptions going into the project plus so much more!

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Bill Costanzo is an extension program specialist for The Livestock Guardian Dog Program at Texas A&M and joins Flock Talk to discuss livestock guardian dogs and tracking devices. Bill talks about his research with GPS collars, how they work, their effectiveness and shares some of his biggest insights gained from GPS E-fence and tracking collars that producers may not expect. Bill also discusses limitations, battery life, and the difference between a GPS collar versus an E Collar. Bill shares common mistakes producers make using the GPS collars, software and interpreting the data plus so much more!

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