Category Archives: Agriculture

LETHBRIDGE - A top market researcher from Calgary will headline the presentation of a new $10,000 agricultural scholarship next February. Exhibition Park and the Rotary Club of Lethbridge East announc...

CALGARY — Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says despite additional beef production, cattle and beef prices are holding up, and that domestic and international demand for beef continues to be strong. F-C...

WINNIPEG — The Federal government has announced an investment of more than $330,000 to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA)*. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced the mone...

EDMONTON — A new cash advance option under the federal government’s Advance Payments Program has been launched by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (A...

LETHBRIDGE — There is an entire generation, or two, who have no inkling of what the Farmers’ Almanac is. There are others who view the publication as outright hokum, while still others swe...

OTTAWA – The federal government is investing $8.3 million towards organic agriculture research. It’s part of an effort to work with the Canada Organic industry to meet a 2020 deadline for ...

LETHBRIDGE - Software developed locally more than a decade ago by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to help producers in the agriculture industry reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is making ...

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. moved one per cent more grain over the past year than in 2016-17, despite a frigid Prairie winter and higher-than-expected crop yields that helped cause a...

LETHBRIDGE - Farms, ranches, and other agri-businesses across Alberta are opening up their operations this weekend, Aug. 18-19, for the sixth annual Alberta Open Farm Days. This year's event features ...

COALDALE — Little Bow MLA Dave Schneider has an ask for farmers and ranchers in his riding. Basically, three questions that will help with discussions regarding policy and platform of the UCP in...