The pressure is on for Canada’s federal and provincial governments to cut carbon emissions and demonstrate meaningful progress to reduce the impacts of climate change. In an ever-evolving environment ...

Here are three women with different roles in the agriculture industry. Each showcases a unique perspective on the parts women play in ag, as demographic shifts suggest more women are taking on key res...

For years, the Alberta government has struggled to reconcile efforts to promote the province’s craft brewing industry with a privatized liquor system that attracts hundreds of breweries from around th...

At the movie theatre, trailers for “coming attractions” are designed to whet your appetite. Unfortunately, for many years in Alberta, the most hyped “coming attraction” in the agriculture world was a ...

A new software program allows Alberta scientists to use fragments of the barley genome—known as DNA markers—to improve and accelerate barley variety development. A genome is the complete set of geneti...

Alberta wheat and barley growers will be taking full control of how their check-off dollars are spent next year as the industry moves to a system where each provincial commodity commission collects it...

It has helped fund the development of numerous crop varieties, advanced controlled-traffic farming in the province, supported agronomy research and strengthened ties between researchers and the crop i...

Sheri Strydhorst is an agronomist, an internationally recognized agriculture researcher and an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta, who also somehow finds the time to work on her own farmin...

Marketing decisions are difficult at the best of times, particularly prior to planting given the uncertainty and potential scenarios that could play out over the ensuing year. However, understanding t...

Though they may sound like something from the Terminator movies, driverless tractors are far from science fiction. That point was driven home recently with the unveiling of autonomous technology at th...