When Greg Newman is pitched a new product for his 3,000-acre grain farm in Alberta’s Peace Region, the first question he asks is: “Has that product been tried and tested up here?” Without local data, ...

Nitrogen is a fundamental driver of plant growth, yet a significant portion of what is applied annually by farmers is not taken up by the crop. When nitrogen fertilizer is applied to a field, a portio...

Until recently, Saskatchewan attracted less than one per cent of Canadian tech venture capital dollars. In 2019, Conexus Credit Union of Regina established its business incubator, Cultivator, to kick-...

Farmers and rural communities in southern Alberta are heavily dependent on the health of the region’s ground and surface water resources. Much of the province’s 815,000 hectares of public and private ...

When Ian and Jennifer Guldberg set up a small milling operation to transform their own grains into feed for their sheep and poultry, the couple soon realized they’d hit upon a business opportunity. Th...

Vancouver’s ClimateDoor helps clean technology companies raise capital, access government grants and create business partnerships at home and abroad. On a weeklong Team Canada Trade Mission in Februar...

In August 2025, GrainsWest spoke with Wolf about the use of optical spot sprayer technology in Western Canada. As a variety of products enter the marketplace and advancements in this technology roll o...

As the saying goes, rain makes grain, but has this bountiful moisture become too much of a good thing? At risk of being a wet blanket, GrainsWest took this watery worry to Alberta Grains agronomy prog...

University of Guelph graduate Riley McConachie recently earned a master’s degree in plant agriculture and credits his advisors with suggesting he use newly released AI technology in his thesis project...

This past fall, Northwest Polytechnic (NWP) in Grande Prairie launched its new two-year Agriculture Operations Diploma Program. “The program is unique because it focuses on preparing people to work in...