Special Competitions - Best Agricultural Edition ( Circulation up to 1499,Circulation 1500 to 3999,Circulation 4000 to 6499,Circulation 6500 to 9999,Circulation 10000 to 12499,Circulation 12500 to 17499,Circulation 17500 and over)
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Place Name:
First Place
Contestant Name:
The Haldimand Press (Haldimand County, ON)
Entry Title:
Farms Harvest 2024
Judge Comment:
It would be hard to improve on this section. The content is rich and local, featuring farmers hitting milestones (100 years of holsteins), farmers using cutting-edge technology to manage crops, even a butcher using social media to tell the story of farming. The ads are well done and placed to help frame editorial content. Photos complement the stories, especially the use of a half dozen satellite and drone images of a crop to show what technology can do. There is even a farm puzzle page. Very impressive.
Place Name:
Second Place
Contestant Name:
Aylmer Express (Aylmer, ON)
Entry Title:
Farm Edition 2024
Entry Credit:
Rob Perry, Cindy Berkelmans, Larissa Lane
Judge Comment:
An excellent, robust effort, three sections bulging with farm content and related advertising, packaged beautifully with lovely, colour photos and graphics and even helpful indexes on every section front. This took a lot of thought and planning, pulling together content from multiple sources and soliciting material from local representatives. Well done!
Place Name:
Third Place
Contestant Name:
Citizen (Blyth/Brussels, ON)
Entry Title:
The Citizen's Salute to Agriculture
Entry Credit:
Shawn Loughlin, Scott Stephenson
Judge Comment:
A section full of interesting, in-depth reads and packed with ads. It tells, local, human stories about farmers and farm-related businesses in the community, touching on topics like a local flour mill and farm-related productions at the local theatre. There is even a feature on tractors, a great venue for placing ads from farm machinery dealers. And it reaches out to the whole community, with articles such as one on where to go for fresh-from-the-farm produce. There are relevant and well-placed photos and the section is orderly and easy to navigate. A great job!
Competition Comment:
The best agriculture sections provide compelling, original story-telling about local farmers and farm communities, the perfect setting for multiple advertisers who serve these communities. The entrants in this category all made strong efforts to do this, making it very difficult to pick winners. All of these sections were high quality, with great photos and presentations. Some seemed more like magazines than newspapers. It is encouraging to know that so many rural papers are producing such high quality agricultural content.
