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...

The first ever FutureFarm Canada Expo, organized by dmg events in partnership with the historic Olds College, will be held this July....

On No v. 3, 2016, Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced the federal government’s Transportation 2030 plan, which will include new legislation that will address several priority areas for grain tra...

Jody Klassen is one of many farmers across central and northern Alberta who really don’t see a happy ending for the story that played out late in 2016, leaving more than one million acres of grain and...

Variable-rate application and farming practices have been an emerging technology for 20 years—an oxymoron to be sure. The technology works, but we still have much to learn about how to best utilize it...

As a 2017 Nuffield Canadian scholar, I am about to embark on what will no doubt be the journey of a lifetime. I couldn’t be more excited for what lies ahead. Nuffield Canada is an amazing organization...

As the world has started to grapple with the short- and long-term consequences of burning fossil fuels, renewable energy sources have become all the rage. This has spurred researchers all around the w...