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included a set of suggested questions for discussion for each broadcast. For example: "Has the war caused a farm labour shortage in your community? Has the farm labor shortage affected production?" The forum's secretary would summarize the group's response, and it would be mailed to the provincial
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reached its height of popularity around 1949 with over 1,600 registered groups. Following this peak, the number of groups began to fall at a rate of around 100–150 per year, reaching around 500 in 1958, and 230 in 1965, the program's final year. The show's decline has been attributed to the
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Content was delivered in a variety of formats. Early broadcasts made heavy use of dramatizations, with actors playing neighbours on the fictional "Sunnybridge Farm", who would discuss the pros and cons of the week's topic. The show also used panel discussions, speeches, and interviews.
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encouraged to accompany their husbands to meetings, and certain broadcasts were specifically devoted to "women's issues", including titles such as: "Farm Women in Public Life", "More
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of the 1930s. Provinces had previously experimented with sending university-educated experts to instruct farmers in scientific farming techniques, but this was considered to have been ineffective.
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office. The provincial office would then read selected feedback on the following week's broadcast. Summaries of forum feedback would also sometimes be forwarded to government agencies.
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contemporaneous decline in Canada's rural population, the displacement of family farms by big business agriculture, and the diverging aims of the three organizations behind the
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