July 13th, 2011 
Ron Johnson 
Summer is upon us, and since our Canadian summers are all too short, everyone is trying to make the most of the sunshine. The highways are filled with RVs making their way to parks and campgrounds, and road construction projects are adding to the congestion. The smell of backyard barbeques fills the air and the [...]
April 17th, 2011 Ron Johnson 
I was browsing through some precision ag discussion groups recently and came across several technical questions about electricity, electronics, gps corrections signals, etc. It got me wondering whether there are many producers, or other people in the ag industry that would be interested in learning more about the technology behind the technology. Would a series [...]
April 14th, 2011 Ron Johnson 
Recently I’ve been getting involved in agricultural electronics documentation. Actually, I was never totally out of it. I’ve been writing manuals for ag electronics manufacturers on and off for since the mid-1990s. In the 1990s I wrote a column for Grainews called Target Farming. I was doing that when a number of new technologies came [...]
April 14th, 2011 Ron Johnson 
This week the Alberta Water and Wastewater Operators Association is running workshops in Red Deer, AB. My associate Rick Hanson is teaching two of them: our one-day Building Procedures with the SOP Toolkit, and half-day workshops on Emergency Response Planning and Critical Task Analysis. We believe the SOP Toolkit workshop can be very helpful for [...]
January 31st, 2010 Ron Johnson Here is an excerpt from the intro to “Building Procedures with the SOP Toolkit”, soon to be available as an ebook… A wise old philosopher said “The only constant is change” and this has never been more true than in the water and wastewater treatment industry. Even if we only look back twenty years we [...]
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