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SEXSMITH, Alta. -- A Sexsmith farmer is filling a newly created post with the board of the Alberta Wheat Commission.Greg Sears is the organization's new second vice-chair.He says the Commission had a ...

OTTAWA, ONT. -- The Government of Canada's Food Waste Reduction Challenge has proven a massive success. An impressive turnout of 343 applications have been received from innovators in Canada and aroun...

A COVID-19 outbreak at a central Alberta pork processing plant has prompted the temporarily closure of the facility.Olymel said in a statement management no longer believed its plant in Red Deer can b...

NORTH BATTLEFORD - University of Saskatchewan researchers have recently updated their mapping system for locating wild pigs in the province.Associate professor of agriculture and bioresources Ryan Bro...

The federal government announced this week it would further restrict nonessential travel in and out of the country but will ensure temporary foreign workers will not be impacted by these restrictions....

MELFORT, Sask. - Have you ever been bullied about your food choices? Most of us have.Indiana dairy producer Michelle Payn wrote a book on food bullying. She shared her thoughts on the topic during the...

MELFORT, Sask. - More than half of the country's dairy farmers have received a compensation payment promised by the federal government.Agriculture and agri-food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said rough...

LETHBRIDGE, AB.-- When Calgary companies Jadler Industries and Random Acronym were looking to test out new technology for monitoring soil moisture in agriculture, there was only one place to go: Lethb...

The Conservation Learning Centre (CLC) staff completed the 2020 harvest of its research plots with the addition of a new piece of equipment.A plot combine was purchased thanks to the roughly $266,000 ...

MELFORT, Sask. - Farmers Edge is putting together a plan to become a publicly traded company.The digital agriculture business based in Winnipeg filed a preliminary prospectus with the security regulat...