On the farm, decision-making is shaped by weather. Should the sprayer roll today or wait until a brewing storm passes? Can seeding be completed before incoming rain hits? Greater confidence in weather...

As the rain continued to fall over a very wet growing season, Redwater-area seed farmers Chelsea and Shane Tomlinson watched beavers build dams across two of their fields. “We have never seen this hap...

Broadacre agriculture is synonymous with synthetic fertilizer. It’s the primary ingredient to a top crop and virtually all farmers use it. Canola, corn, soybeans and wheat all love a healthy dose of t...

Throughout 2024 and 2025, thousands of frustrated European farmers blocked major highways and shut down the continent’s busiest cities. This was in protest of soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, the gr...

A wide variety of agritourism options are available at home and abroad to agricultural professionals and the general public. Notable among international travel destinations, every two years, hundreds ...

Japanese brewers found a unique way to make beer more affordable: use less malt. But what happens when using less malt no longer makes these products cheaper? To answer this, we must look back more th...

Researchers from the Olds College Centre for Innovation (OCCI) carried out trials to evaluate the effectiveness of seaweed products as an additive to cattle feed and are now studying its use as crop b...

At Cereals Canada’s downtown Winnipeg headquarters, farmers from British Columbia to Atlantic Canada gather each February for our annual Combine to Customer program. The three-day course has been offe...

With harvest is in the bin, grain farmers turn to the numbers. What did the crop bring in, and what did the year cost? And did the programs meant to protect the farm perform as needed? These questions...

Everything is true until it’s not. This economics adage suggests rules, truths and traditional pricing patterns termed “seasonality,” are not always useful guides. In its simplest form, seasonality is...