Travelling around Western Canada in rural and urban areas, you will often see signs for agricultural research centres and field or livestock research sites. You might also see people working with live...

The German Agricultural Society, commonly referred to by its German acronym, DLG, is a cutting-edge, farmer-focused group in northeast Germany that is committed to farmer gains....

Before starting any conversation about whether or not so-called genetically modified foods— commonly referred to as GM foods or GMOs—should be labelled, I like to make one thing clear: this is not a d...

A competitive table tennis player, a Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan and now a plant entomology researcher at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Haley Catt...

There's a disconnect between what’s happening in Canadian agriculture and what Canadians think is happening in Canadian agriculture. To help Canadians better understand what’s going on in the fields a...

More than a year after the passage of the Agricultural Growth Act and ratification of the 1991 Act of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV ’91), which strengthen...

Lethbridge College has a new research chair in irrigation science—the school’s first-ever fully funded applied research chair....

Several sectors of the Canadian grain industry are hoping the current federal government will follow through with longstanding plans to modernize the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) after the latest b...

Revered by chefs, foodies and potato growers alike, the Canuck born-and-bred Yukon Gold potato celebrates its golden anniversary in 2016....

April showers—or lack thereof—brought May wildfires instead of flowers this year to the residents of Fort McMurray. The tragic natural disaster burned through almost 1.5 million acres of land, accordi...