For Claire Citeau, witnessing the impact of currency devaluation while she was growing up in Africa helped spark an interest in international trade. She spent much of her youth in Senegal, growing up ...

With widespread dry conditions, the 2015 growing season was a roller coaster for many farmers. Some areas received enough rain to see larger than expected yields, but that wasn’t the case everywhere. ...

If you have ever wondered where that great new variety growing in your field came from or how the latest international trade deal came about, you can often look to provincial crop commissions as the s...

In December, the world gathered in Paris to talk about the need for a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming to less than 2°C above the global pre-i...

Big leaps in innovation don't occur every day. It sometimes takes special people (think Steve Jobs) or teams (think NASA) to imagine so far beyond our current experience that they create a new paradig...

Alberta Barley and the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) are committed to ensuring their farmer members are represented in local, national and international matters that impact their livelihoods. Recentl...

Both sides of the carbon offsets market debate weigh in....

After years of sometimes-tense negotiations, a tentative Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was struck in October, with Canada as a founding member of the historic trade pact....

As technology for collecting on-farm data continues to grow, so too does the number of questions it raises. Where does the data go? Is it securely stored? Who owns it? And probably the most important ...

Merle Good has a farm succession presentation titled, “The Impossible Dream?” That question mark says it all when it comes to the way most people feel about, and approach, the task of farm succession....