After decades in decline, Prairie grain elevators are experiencing a development revival. Over the past two years, every major player in Canadian grain marketing and transportation has announced signi...

Shawn Thacker knows the signs. When he sees turtles moving up onto the road where he's working in east-central Colorado, it's a good indicator that there's rain on the way that could interrupt winter ...

Located inside the skeleton of a 1920s-era movie theatre just off of Main Street in Turner Valley, Eau Claire Distillery is the first of its kind in Alberta — a genuine craft distillery using only pre...

Canadian senators don't exactly have a tradition of early retirement. So, it came as a bit of a surprise when Conservative Senator JoAnne Buth announced in June that she was resigning her post after j...

Those pails in bin doors across the prairies hold a lot of power. A single harvest sample can help an individual farmer negotiate price and delivery for his grain, but gather enough of those samples a...

Technologies and tools that make you safer, more efficient and more productive during harvest time offer big benefits and quick payback. The following suggestions are not about iron and horsepower — t...

Farmers could be forgiven for being a bit perplexed by the recent proliferation of farm organizations in Western Canada. ...

As we get into the very tail end of harvest, growers will have followed through on the part of their crop marketing plan that moved what grain was necessary to manage any lack of storage space. The fo...

You’d think being the Canadian elevator operations manager for the Canada malting Company — with responsibilities stretching from Alberta to Manitoba — would be enough to keep a man busy. But not for ...

Farming has changed — and it’s about to change even more. With current forecasts suggesting a global population of more than nine billion by 2050, the opportunities and challenges in agriculture are g...