Category Archives: Agriculture

GUELPH, ONT. — Widely used pesticides blamed for decimating honeybee and other pollinator populations have found their way into wild turkeys in Ontario, according to a new study from Canadian re...

MONTREAL — Get ready for the “internet of cows.” Generations of farmers have relied on knowledge and family expertise to grow food, but the sector is set for a surge of disruption at...

EDMONTON — Alberta posted very positive farm income numbers in 2017 and even set several records. For the very first time, the province cashed in above the $14 billion mark, at $14.1 billion, wh...

LETHBRIDGE — Canada’s dairy farmers stand with their fellow Canadians in rejecting the US administration’s personal attacks on Prime Minister Trudeau and their industry. According to...

LETHBRIDGE – It’s been an issue in crop production for decades but, the issue has multiplied, as increasing numbers of weeds are no longer responding to herbicides. Crop specialist with Al...

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it expects to have more than 500 new high-capacity grain hopper cars in service before the end of 2018. The Calgary-based company has placed an initi...

WINNIPEG — Updated guidelines for the assessment wheat damaged by frost, heat stress and mildew have been unveiled by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). Beginning August 1, 2018, individual st...

OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) deadline for comments on a proposed new national equine infectious anemia disease control program is drawing near. The disease, which is also ...

LETHBRIDGE — Prairie grain farmers need to be prepared for the upcoming reclassification of 29 wheat varieties and have a plan to market any of their remaining wheat that will transition to a ne...

EDMONTON — Alberta agriculture says seeding progress in the province increased by 30 per cent as of May 22nd, with 67 per cent of the seed in the ground. The 5 year average is 83 per cent. The m...