A recent Canadian Senate report found that, one year after arriving in Canada, half of eligible Syrian refugees remain out of work. While there are many reasons why refugees would experience difficult...

Farm organizations, buyers and governments from across Canada came together in Ottawa at the beginning of November last year to discuss one thing: the formation of a National Environmental Farm Plan (...

For hockey players, a no-trade clause means job security. But for Canadian agriculture, the tide of anti-trade sentiment that is rising around the world is making insecurity the new normal....

Rick White is worried about canola seed. As CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, White has been keeping a close eye on the slew of agriculture mergers in recent months: Dow Chemical Co. ...

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...