PRACTICAL AUTOMATION

Featured August 31, 2026 No Comments

Equipment manufacturers have long promised a hands-free future in which autonomous units seed, spray and harvest with little or no human input. At Hannover, Germany’s Agritechnica 2025, the world’s largest agricultural t... Keep Reading

PRACTICAL AUTOMATION

PROMPT SERVICE

Featured August 31, 2026 No Comments

It’s funny to discuss AI today as if we haven’t been living our lives with real applications of this seemingly Back to the Future technology for decades. With many examples from ’90s era voice-to-text software and Roomba... Keep Reading

SCIENCE SUPPORTS ECONOMICS

Business August 31, 2026 No Comments

Launched in 2001 by three ambitious New Zealand scientists, AbacusBio is an agricultural science and tech consultancy whose sole purpose is to help ag businesses and farmer organizations maximize their research investmen... Keep Reading

SCIENCE SUPPORTS ECONOMICS

HARVEST THE SUN

Business August 31, 2026 No Comments

Leonard Retzlaff of Saddleridge Farming bets sunlight will help stabilize the family farm’s income. Located near Rosemary, the farm is operated by Retzlaff, his father Ralph and brothers Philip and Luke. The family raise... Keep Reading

HARVEST THE SUN

MEET YOUR FARM NEIGHBOURS

Featured August 31, 2026 No Comments

Wilfred Romanowski took over the operation of his family’s Sturgeon County farm in 1961. Though his family once raised cattle and chickens, today the Romanowski farm 20 minutes north of Edmonton strictly produces field c... Keep Reading

MEET YOUR FARM NEIGHBOURS

NEXT-GENERATION SUPPORT

September 29, 2026 Business

NEXT-GENERATION SUPPORT

Presented by the Alberta Young Agrarians, farmers in their first decade of operation can apply to enroll in the Business... More

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

August 25, 2026 NEWS

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

Alberta Grains will officially launch its Young Farmers Peer Network pilot project in mid-September. The project was ins... More

August 31, 2026 Columns

TRIPLE HEADER

Vijay Kumar Tiwari didn’t expect to become a hero in the eyes of wheat farmers. But since he and his team at the Univers... More

BUILD WEALTH WITH SOIL HEALTH

August 31, 2026 Agronomy

BUILD WEALTH WITH SOIL HEALTH

More than ever, farmers and researchers recognize the benefits of good soil health. For example, healthy soil is better ... More

SEED PLANT MODERNIZATION ONGOING

August 31, 2026 NEWS

SEED PLANT MODERNIZATION ONGOI

Over the past 20 years, many Alberta seed plants have modernized operations with the cutting-edge equipment of the day. ... More

August 31, 2026 Business

TEST THE TECH

Just as you test drive a car before you buy, a new program is focused on the testing and adoption of emerging ag technol... More

GUESSWORK ELIMINATED

August 31, 2026 Agronomy

GUESSWORK ELIMINATED

Better known as wireworm, click beetle larvae are trouble. Because it has been difficult to determine which wireworm spe... More

August 31, 2026 Tech 2026

CURL UP AND DIE

Prairie farmers will soon have access to non-chemical means in their fight against wireworm. Soon-to-be available RNA in... More

ACCELERATION OF INNOVATION

August 31, 2026 NEWS

ACCELERATION OF INNOVATION

Agriculture experts say a new data-sharing initiative unveiled by Genome Alberta, Genome BC and RDAR could dramatically ... More

NEXT-GENERATION SUPPORT

September 29, 2026 Business No Comments

Presented by the Alberta Young Agrarians, farmers in their first decade of operation can apply to enroll in the Business Mentorship Network between Oct. 1 and 31. Participants may be involved in the p...

A SCIENTIFIC UPDATE ON AN ANCIENT METHOD

August 31, 2026 Business No Comments

As the name of his Rocky Mountain House business suggests, Sheldon Rice hunts for water, and most of the time he locates it. WaterFind uses electroseismology, which employs electromagnetic and seismic...

TRIPLE HEADER

August 31, 2026 Columns No Comments

Vijay Kumar Tiwari didn’t expect to become a hero in the eyes of wheat farmers. But since he and his team at the University of Maryland in Washington, D.C., identified a gene mutation capable of tripl...

LABOUR SAVER

August 31, 2026 Tech 2026 No Comments

No topic sucks more oxygen from the room than AI. Opinions abound around whether AI is a positive or negative, and data centres have become the quintessential NIMBY issue. There is deep fear AI will d...

CROP RESEARCH HEADS WRONG WAY

August 31, 2026 Columns No Comments

A year ago in these pages, Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) warned that the country was losing ground on crop research. Public investment was declining, competitors were investing more aggressively and f...

EXPORT OPPORTUNITY INCREASES

August 31, 2026 Columns No Comments

Emerging markets tend to have a few things in common: an increase in population, urbanization and changing diets with a growing demand for wheat-based foods. As Canadian grain farmers, you know the va...

KEEP YOUR SOIL ALIVE

August 31, 2026 Agronomy No Comments

We often treat soil like it’s just dirt, but it’s so much more. It’s the source of life in many ways. Healthy soil is a living, breathing ecosystem that serves as our planet’s most vital capital. The ...

NAKED LAUNCH

August 31, 2026 Columns No Comments

Hulless, or naked, barley refers to varieties in which the loosely adhered outer hull is removed at harvest. In Canada, these have typically been developed for the food sector with special attributes ...

BETTER FARMING WITH AI

August 31, 2026 Tech 2026 No Comments

Farmers collect enormous volumes of data through yield maps, soil samples, field records and farm management software. It has been a constant challenge to figure out what to do with it. Think of all t...

PRACTICAL AUTOMATION

August 31, 2026 Featured No Comments

Equipment manufacturers have long promised a hands-free future in which autonomous units seed, spray and harvest with little or no human input. At Hannover, Germany’s Agritechnica 2025, the world’s la...

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