According to agricultural experts, grain-drying technologies are being drastically overlooked in the Canadian farming industry, and many farmers could be losing out on profit by not taking advantage o...

One hundred and nine Nobel laureates can’t be wrong. Matt Sawyer, a grain and oilseed farmer who raises Black Angus cattle near Acme, AB, and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association director, sa...

As sayings go, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” may not be profound, but for Canadian farmers faced with the reopening of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it offers more than a “grain...

Canadian agriculture is not only alive and well—it’s thriving, according to the 2016 Canadian Census of Agriculture....

Canada’s Liberal government is halfway through its first term, and despite early concerns that the caucus may be light on agricultural expertise, its members are receiving positive reviews from leader...

A wheat breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Dr. Harpinder Randhawa, a research scientist specializing in spring wheat and triticale breeding, has spent more than 20 years immersed in this...

Disastrously wet conditions and early snowfall in 2016 left many Alberta farmers contemplating carrying out harvest and spring planting simultaneously....

AWC chairman Kevin Auch said 2016 was just the sort of year in which deferring income from one crop year to another made sense. ...

Demand by agri-food businesses for sustainably produced crops continues to increase. Addressing this, provincial chapters of the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) program have been in operation for more t...

The Fusarium Head Blight Risk Tool was launched at the start of the 2017 growing season. Developed by the Alberta Wheat Commission in collaboration with the Alberta Climate Information Service, the on...