A price transparency initiative meant to provide accurate and timely data for the Canadian grain market is officially underway, following an announcement at FarmTech Jan. 28 by federal Agriculture Min...

There is a new player in the cellphone game and, despite what you may think, it’s not the latest offering from Apple or Samsung....

John Bocock believes the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences (ALES) has seen a healthy, progressive change over the last century. ...

The Scottish game of curling was introduced to Canada in 1807 in Montreal, QC, but didn’t make its way west for another 80 years, where the first game was played in Edmonton in 1888. From there, the g...

The labour-intensive task of decoding one of the world’s highly consumed wheat varieties has made headway in Saskatoon, SK. ...

BY JEREMY SIMES   A new tool that calculates the carbon footprint of canola and barley production within the farm gate will increase Canada’s competitive advantage in the global market. The downl...

Farmers are on the front line of our food production. Daily, they are battling the elements, including nasty, uncooperative weather, invasive insects, disease, and weeds that choke and steal the nutri...

The United Nations has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. The goal of this effort is to “raise awareness of the importance of sustainable soil management as the basis for food systems, fue...

As the price of 3D printing continues to fall, farmers should start thinking about what they can and will do with these devices. It’s not pie in the sky … it’s here now!...

Brian Northeast believes the new grain-shipping terminal being built a few miles south of his Oxbow, SK, farm this past fall, which will rail Prairie grains and oilseeds into U.S. and Mexican markets,...