Author Archives: Teena Monteleone
Bunge sells five grain elevators to comply with federal merger conditions
Bunge recently sold five grain elevators in Western Canada. The transactions are part of the divestiture commitment Bunge made with the federal government, in order to receive regulatory approval for ...
Nov 07, 2025
Agriculture labour shortage comes at a cost
New labour market data from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) shows on-farm agriculture businesses are losing money because of a labour shortage. The losses are estimated at $3....
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Bodnarus Auctioneering: providing professionalism and results
Whether you are a farmer who is downsizing, relocating, retiring or someone faced with the loss of a loved one, there will come a time to decide how to handle the selling of personal assets. No matter...
May 11, 2022 (Submitted photo/Bodnarus Auctioneering)
Saskatchewan-based food series began with agricultural love
The worlds of food and agriculture have always been an interest to Jenn Sharp. Growing up on a farm in rural Saskatchewan, many happy hours were spent in the combine or pick up truck while also helpin...
May 05, 2022 Jenn Sharp at Over the Hill Orchards outside Lumsden. (Photo credit: Richard Marjan)
From barn to craft markets, women dominating the alpaca fleece industry
Staring out over the sea of fuzzy-headed alpacas, anyone visiting the stalls at the Canadian Western Agribition this past November would have also seen the many women who raise these walking, scowling...
May 05, 2022 Diane Unruh stands with her alpacas during the Canadian Western Agribition in 2021. (Becky Zimmer/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Biannual conference celebrates womens' contributions to agriculture
Demand for the Advancing Women in Agriculture conference has only grown since its inception in 2014. For organizer and founder Iris Meck, planning the shows, which take place annually both in Calgary ...
May 05, 2022 Demand for the Advancing Women in Agriculture conference. (Submitted photo/Iris Meck)
Prairies important place for agriculture and journalism intersection
The worlds of journalism and agriculture can be ever changing entities and reporters across the prairies are no strangers to documenting it. When it comes to agricultural writing, Alice McFarlane beli...
May 05, 2022 Agricultural Reporter Alice McFarlane. (Submitted photo/Alice McFarlane)
Women supporting women crucial in time of Me Too, addressing harassment
Women have always had a place at the farming table. Besides the basic fact that wives and mothers were and are a valued, and sometimes unappreciated, member of the farm crew, taking part in everything...
May 05, 2022 (Photo 107090358 © Rclassenlayouts | Dreamstime.com)
Women in Ag highlighting importance of one-on-one, group mentorship despite COVID issues
Whether people know it or understand its importance, mentorship, whether as a mentor or mentee, is how people grow in their professional and personal lives. In times of COVID-19, there have been doors...
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Cumberland College's Agriculture Sciences Certificate balances students' school and work life
Strong, well-established, out-of-province agriculture education closer to home. That's what Cumberland College is bringing to its Melfort campus with the Agriculture Sciences Certificate program again...
May 12, 2021 (Submitted photo/Cumberland College)