Kevin Sich is a true brewing industry middleman. He loves the vantage point this gives him as co-operation between farmers, maltsters and brewers has grown in recent years thanks to craft beer’s surgi...

On a drive along Highway 41 near the hamlet of Hilda, soil health specialist Yamily Zavala spotted a field containing sunflowers, a plant that she happens to incorporate in cover cropping studies at t...

To stay in the black, farmers must adapt to change at every turn, so why did recently proposed tax changes by the federal government cause such a furor in agriculture? According to industry members, t...

Marketing grain is a gold mine or a mine field—it really depends how you look at it. Either way, it’s a process that completes the cycle of farming. All the investment of inputs and time piloting trac...

As agriculture has become more digital and data-driven, the expectations farmers have for seed performance have also increased. While certain seed testing processes such as germination testing haven’t...

Choosing seed varieties is always a hot topic among farmers, but the central reason for selecting one variety over another is straightforward. “Typically, growers are growing something they can sell,”...

Farmers know that soils and crops exhibit variability. From Alberta’s first soil surveys in the 1920s to today’s vegetation and soil electrical conductivity maps, the mapping of these variations has i...

Sustainability is a broad term. It is subjective, and can have different connotations based on the subject it is used to describe. In its very simplest form, it is defined as the ability to be maintai...

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe it.”...

It’s often said that weather and government policy are the two biggest influences on grain prices. Weather obviously drives the supply side of the equation. And, as with most industries, government po...