The agBOT Challenge’s new mandate is to get participants and attendees to envision how automated technology can transform agriculture

Blockchain has the potential to transform the way we manage supply chains, track and verify sustainability certifications, market and sell commodities and interact with consumers.

Knowing what weeds, insects and diseases are in the field and how to treat them is an important part of proactive management.

​In 2017, Wade and Scott McAllister realized their mutual dream of seeing a craft beer brewed exclusively using barley grown on their family farm.

Biomass is now primarily an energy feedstock. Commercial manure-to-biogas operations such as Lethbridge BioGas are well established, but there is also major potential in biomaterials and biochemicals.

Taking advantage of a formal mentorship opportunity, Campbell has enrolled in the AdvancingAg Future Leaders Program, which is offered by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) and Alberta Barley.

Jochen Fahr was born to brew. GrainsWest recently sat down with Fahr over samples of his two bestselling beers, Fahr Pils and Fahr Hefe.

Meghan Vankosky is a field crop entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Saskatoon Research and Development Centre.

Grasshoppers are known to inhabit areas that receive less than 700 millimetres of rainfall per year, which includes Alberta.

Two recent discoveries suggest humans have been baking bread and brewing beer much longer than previously thought.