A few decades ago, before Big Rock Brewery became the behemoth it is today, barley farmer Richard Nordstrom took a tour of the updated Canada Malting factory in Calgary. He was pleased to see his good...

This past fall will go down as one of the more challenging harvests in recent memory. Persistent showers, interspersed with heavy rains and even snow, made progress feel like a real grind through much...

In the last 25 years, How much have our agricultural education programs changed to encourage enrolment? For certain, the student demographic has changed. Fewer people are living on farms, so there are...

It made sense for Brennan Turner to leave the urban jungle of New York and plant himself back in the Prairies....

About three years ago, we started hearing determined rumblings about the end of the Canadian Wheat Board. Tensions amongst farmers were running high, but the government’s agenda was clear: It was time...

In 21st-century agriculture, E.A. Partridge and Sintaluta, SK, are little more than footnotes in the history books. And yet Partridge and the tiny farming community about an hour east of Regina, SK, p...

It’ll take more than simply renewing railway shipping requirements to improve market access for Canadian grain, according to Stephen Vandervalk, vice-president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers As...

Pebble smartwatches appear to be all the craze these days, but what do we really know about them? Are they practical? Do they make our lives easier? Or are they just another techno-gadget destined to ...

It perhaps had an odd shape, but this wooden grain elevator built in 1879 at Niverville, MB, got the ball rolling for the storied and sometimes romantic grain storage and handling system in Western Ca...

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) continues to be investigated for its potential to improve feed efficiency in livestock, saving feedlots money and making the livestock industry more profitable....