Category Archives: Agriculture

CALGARY, AB. -- When I was a kid, "no dessert if you don't finish your supper" encouraged us to eat everything on our plates. Others grew up with the guilt-based "children are starving in the third wo...

LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- The 2021 edition of Alberta's Open Farm Days has been set for weekend of August 14 and 15. Farms and Ranches can now register to take part.The weekend showcases Alberta's agricultur...

OTTAWA, ONT. -- There wasn't any specific announcements for agriculture in Monday's federal budget. Saskatchewan's Agricultural Producers Association president, Todd Lewis, noted the carbon tax and ag...

LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- It's a topic that makes many squeamish. Rat infestations are not wanted anywhere and particularly not in Alberta. Rats are responsible for Bubonic plague, they can infest homes and ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Farmers in Alberta and across the country are facing many challenges.COVID-19 is certainly included in that category. Lynn Jacobson, the president of the Alberta Federation of Agricul...

EDMONTON, AB. -- The more than 170 licences already applied for proves there is enormous interest in Alberta's new On-Farm Slaughter Operation (OFSO). Alberta Agriculture and Forestry executive direct...

OTTAWA, ONT. -- Two new programs have been announced by Ottawa, designed to promote innovation and market development for Canada's 4,800 chicken, turkey and egg farmers.The announcement on Tuesday (Ap...

TABER, AB. -- Trade prospects have improved for Alberta potato Growers, as the province has been deemed free of potato cyst nematode (PCN). PCN is a destructive pest that lives in the soil, and is reg...

TABER, AB. -- Sugar Beet refineries used to be spread across Canada, but have since dissolved, with the last remaining one right here in Southern Alberta. Sugar Beet farmers, around Lethbridge and Tab...

EDMONTON, AB. -- It's long been known that the agriculture industry produces not only crops but ingenuity in developing innovative technologies and processes that help expand and diversify agricultura...