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Project funding and collaboration expected to boost poultry sector innovation
EDMONTON, Alta. - It's the new norm in agriculture and various segments of the industry have welcomed technology to advance and improve practices. The latest to enhance technology practices is the pou...
Oct 05, 2021

Task force will make recommendations for agriculture programs
MELFORT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan farm group will be gathering comments on the next suite of the business risk management programs (BRM).The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) has...
Oct 05, 2021

Listen: Celebrating strength and resiliency in agriculture
MELFORT, Sask. - It's been a tough year for many farmers and ranchers on the prairies.Through these difficulties there are still many aspects of agriculture that should be shared and celebrated.Alice ...
Oct 05, 2021

$783K investment in Alberta AgTech venture with Sunterra Greenhouses and Lethbridge College
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- A producer-public-private partnership with Lethbridge College and Sunterra Farms in Brooks is about to boost Alberta's crop output during times of limited supply and low import qual...
Oct 05, 2021

Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday October 5, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - A vaccine candidate has been found that will block the spread of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV).The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (A...
Oct 05, 2021

Old pesticides and livestock medications being collected in central Saskatchewan
MELFORT, Sask. - Producers in central Saskatchewan have some safe options for disposing of unwanted agricultural pesticides and outdated livestock and equine medications.Cleanfarms has established one...
Oct 04, 2021

Harvest close to wrapping up in North West region after tough season for farmers
Farmers in the Battlefords and North West part of the province are close to finishing combining their crops.It hasn't been an easy year for producers challenged by drought for most of the growing seas...
Oct 04, 2021

Tillage is problematic on the prairies
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Farming Smarter Lethbridge has developed a series of five articles to address the issue of soil erosion. It's an issue that was brought to the forefront this year of drought and hea...
Oct 01, 2021

Harvest in Saskatchewan virtually complete
Farmers in Saskatchewan are on the verge of wrapping up harvest.In its weekly crop report, the Ministry of Agriculture said 95 per cent of the crop has been combined - well ahead of the five-year aver...
Sep 30, 2021

Proposed fertilizer emissions reduction will hurt farmers income
MELFORT, Sask. - An independent analysis warns of a major financial impact of a proposed federal fertilizer emission reduction of 30 per cent.Fertilizer Canada hired Meyers Norris Penny (MNP) to calcu...
Sep 29, 2021