As our country celebrates its 150th birthday, there are many people, places and things that make us proud to be Canadian. In December 2016, Abacus Data, an Ottawa-based research group, compiled a list...

EARL Jeninga and 11 other Canadians travelled to Rwanda in January to learn about projects supported by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) and to see where CFGB funds—which are primarily raised by Ca...

When someone said, “the best things in life are free,” were they talking about being free of gluten and hormones? Based on celebrity endorsements and pop culture sentiment, it seems there’s growing su...

Ask someone to name a career in agriculture, and the odds are good that the first word out of their mouth will be “farmer.” While it’s true that farming forms the foundation of the industry, those men...

Olds College recently launched its new Werklund Agriculture Institute (WAI) to continue its industry-leading applied research into the field of “smart agriculture.”...

In a region where a head of iceberg lettuce costs $10, a bag of carrots costs $7 and a kilogram of grapes can cost as much as $38, it’s easy to understand why nearly 60 per cent of the population is c...

During the spring, summer and fall, western Canadian farmers are hard at work, planting, tending and, eventually, harvesting a number of important crops. Here on the Prairies, if you drive through eno...

John Ware, who ranched in south and central Alberta for about 25 years, has been described as “Canada’s most famous black cowboy.”...

Alberta has fewer, but larger, farms and more young, and female, farmers than it did in 2011, according to Statistics Canada farm and farm operator data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture....

There are no shortcuts to the top of the malting barley heap. More than 15 years after becoming a registered variety, CDC Copeland has become the most widely grown malting barley variety in Western Ca...