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Fighting famine with local farming
PIGEON LAKE, Alta. - A central Alberta farming organization which donates produce to food banks is hoping to expand their business and help more people in need.The Alberta Farm to Food Bank offers loc...
Sep 01, 2021

Alberta Livestock Feed Assistance initiative about to open
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Alberta Cattle producers will soon be able to apply for feed assistance and should ensure their paperwork is ready. Emmet Hanrahan, Vice-President of Product Innovation with Agricul...
Sep 01, 2021

Listen: Cattle producers more optimistic with news of support program and rain
MELFORT, Sask. - Cattle producers are making tough decisions about cow and feed management but there is a more hopeful tone to some conversations with Saskatchewan Cattlemen Association chair Arnold B...
Sep 01, 2021

Straight cutting your canola
These past few years, the industry has seen a variety of new traits bred into canola seed varieties. We are bombarded with a variety of terms including "Pod Shatter", "Harvest Max", and "Late Swath Po...
Sep 01, 2021

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday Sept. 1, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Sask. Wheat has found its next executive director.Blair Goldade served as the executive director for the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan (ACS) from June 2012 to October 2014, over...
Sep 01, 2021

Sask. cattle owners charged in relation to animal cruelty case
LOVE, Sask. - Nearly a year-and-a-half after over 100 cattle were seized from a farm in northeast Saskatchewan, charges have been laid against the three respective owners. Donald Black, Connie Black-S...
Sep 01, 2021

Listen: Farm groups appeal to grain companies for producers who do not have enough grain to cover contracts
MELFORT, Sask. - Grain companies are being urged to work with farmers to eliminate administration fees and reduce contract penalties during the 2021-2022 growing season.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access ...
Aug 31, 2021

Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday August 31, 2021
MELFORT, Sask. - Prairie wheat research groups are committing $3.5 million to wheat breeding research.The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC), along with the Western Grains Research Foundation (W...
Aug 31, 2021

Tough decision making time for beef producers due to drought
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- A lot of cattle producers are wrangling over how to handle their cattle herds as fall approaches. Drought conditions have reduced feed availability and drastically increased the cos...
Aug 31, 2021

Crop production declines on poor weather in Western Canada
MELFORT, Sask. - All indications are pointing to Canadian farmers harvesting less wheat, canola, soybeans, barley and oats this year.Statistics Canada estimates released today used remote sensing/sate...
Aug 30, 2021