In the late 1990s, members of the Westlock Vintage Tractor and Machinery Club noticed locally restored antique tractors often went up for auction and left the country. “People here decided they didn’t...

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) research scientist Keshav D. Singh envisions Alberta as an agricultural powerhouse to rival California....

Processing barley into malt for brewing is a persnickety business. Each lot of barley can vary in quality, which requires maltsters to adjust their processing approach. Factors such as protein level, ...

Canadian grain farmers face unpredictable weather, rising costs and global market shifts. What keeps them competitive is progress, which often starts with plant breeding. The ability to grow higher-yi...

Every week, millions of Canadians enjoy their morning toast, lunch wraps and pasta dinners without realizing they’re consuming one of the country’s most exported crops. Canada produces high-quality, n...

Farmers may soon be able to chat with an AI assistant for agriculture on their smartphones. This is the vision of Felippe Karp, an instructor and researcher at Olds College of Agriculture and Technolo...

Price & Data Quotes (PDQ) is a Prairiewide daily cash bids website launched in September 2015 by the Alberta Wheat Commission. To celebrate the price discovery platform’s tenth year, Alberta Grains as...

With the help of a Nuffield Canada scholarship, Craig Lester is challenging mainstream media coverage of agriculture. Lester is the founder of Rural Roots Canada, an agriculture media company he launc...

Each spring, Hrannar Smári Hilmarsson travels 10,000 kilometres across Iceland to seed barley research plots. As he works against unforgiving elements and sluggish soil temperatures, his quest is to d...

A few kilometres from the family farm where he grew up, Brad McGhee sits on an old office chair. It is next to a work bench in a shop he slowly modified to support his business as an independent mecha...