Gerald Finster aims for a seeding rate that will produce about 22 plants per square foot on fields he’s seeding to Xena feed barley on his Peace River region farm....

Long after the fall of the grain elevators, the rail lines that served them continue to criss-cross the Prairies, connecting rural communities and their businesses to main-line railways....

Cristo Hurtado remembers his first visit to Southern Alberta’s Paskal Cattle Company in 2006. The young veterinarian had travelled from his home in Monterrey, Mexico, to explore the possibility of pur...

Few people outside of the research community know Ron DePauw’s name, but chances are you have been eating the fruits of his labours for decades—maybe even your whole life....

As seeding time draws near, most growers are either contemplating, or perhaps have already initiated, some sales for 2015 production....

I want more bright young people in agricultural education programs. Not because more bums in seats brings in more tuition money, and not because high numbers makes a university’s statistics look bette...

The insect world is large, ambiguous and even violent....

A seed-sorting machine that can analyze grain kernels on a chemical level is opening new processing possibilities for Canadian grain farmers....

The first farm meetings I covered as a young radio reporter in Weyburn, SK were pretty sullen affairs....

GrainsWest capped off its inaugural year in style by being named the recipient of the Best New Magazine, as voted by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA)....