Category Archives: Agriculture

OTTAWA — One of Canada’s largest canola exporters has lost its permit to ship its product to China. Winnipeg-based Richardson International has confirmed that China has revoked its permit ...

CALGARY — Alberta Pork says there are now three positive cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in this province. The producer group says that two more possible cases were found last week, but...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Doctor Claudia Sheedy wants to protect our crops and waters. The researcher in Lethbridge is working on a unique biobed design that will boost protection offered by existing biobeds. ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lauren Machacek is on top of the world. The 22-year old is the recipient of the inaugural $10,000 Rotary Exhibition Park Agricultural Scholarship. The Taber-area native was honoured a...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Exhibition Park is filled to the brim with vendors and agriculture enthusiasts for the 2019 Ag Expo. The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lethbridge Research and Development Centre ha...

EDMONTON — The Alberta government is extending a deadline for farm workers to get new mandatory truck driver training. A coalition of the province’s agriculture producers had expressed con...

TABER — Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) is investing $41.8 million to build a new state-of-the-art, high-throughput fertilizer terminal near Grassy Lake. Construction is expected to begin ...

CALGARY — Alberta Pork says a second case of porcine epidemic diarrhea has turned up in this province. It is at a 600-head farrow-to-finish operation, but the producer group does not say in what...

OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has released amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations on animal transportation. The new regulations take effect in February 2020, allow...

ALBERTA – The province of Alberta has put out the call for participants in this year’s Open Farm Days event. Farms and ranches are encouraged to apply to host visitors during the event on ...