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Alberta Seed Guide
Alberta Seed Guide
Camrose County Built a New Seed Plant to Keep Up with the Changing Times
A lot has changed since the Camrose County Seed Cleaning Plant was built. Where grain trucks were once used to haul...
Historical Data Points to Bad Year for Pulse Root Rots
Alberta farmers only need to look at the history of their fields and weather from years past to predict what pests and...
In 2024, Canola Disease Threats are Lurking in the Soil
PHOTO: Clubroot. Alberta farmers only need to look at the history of their fields and weather from years past to...
Hall of Fame Nominations are Open
Nominations are open for the 2024 Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame. The Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame honours...
Newer Cereal Crop Diseases on the Rise for 2024
PHOTO: Bacterial leaf streak. Alberta farmers only need to look at the history of their fields and weather from years...
Why we Need to Learn From the Past to Fight 2024’s Insects
Above feature photo: A pea leaf weevil. (Shelley Barkley) Alberta farmers only need to look at the history of their...
How Does Investing in New Genetics Contribute to Sustainability? Find Out Next Week at CrossRoads
The countdown is on until CrossRoads Crop Conference kicks off next week on Jan. 29-31 at the Westin Calgary Airport,...
New Herbicide Batalium for Wheat Weed Control Registered
Batalium, a herbicide that provides broad spectrum control of grass and broadleaf weeds that limit the yield potential...
Adama Launches New Fungicide Maxentis in Canada
Adama Agricultural Solutions Canada Ltd. is releasing Maxentis, a fungicide for lentil, canola, soybean and peas, a...
Alberta Awards WaterSMART Solutions Contract for Drought Monitoring
Following three years of droughts and water shortages in parts of Alberta, the provincial government has awarded a...
New Faba bean Fractionation Process Captures Protein
A new fractionation process that captures the protein from faba beans, along with starch and dietary fibre, leaving...
Short-term Drought Causing Huge Impact on Grasslands
Intense short-term drought is having a worse impact on the world’s grasslands than previously thought, a Jan. 12 news...
FCC Launches New Sustainability Fertilizer Incentive Program
Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is launching a new Sustainability Incentive Program to support crop producers who follow...
AgKnow Running Alberta Farm Mental Health Survey
AgKnow is currently running an Alberta farm mental health survey, a website post said. The survey is being ran in...
Paterson Grain Buys Parrish and Heimbecker Out of Alliance Seed Shares
Paterson Grain has purchased all of Parrish and Heimbecker's equity in Alliance Seed Corporation, a Dec. 8 news...
Winfield United Named Canadian Distributor for Yalos Seed Treatment
Winfield United Canada and its retail owners have been named as the Canadian distributor for Lavie Bio's bio-inoculant...
AI Project to Address Lentil Growing Challenges Announced
A consortium of partners from Canada’s agriculture and agrifood sectors will develop artificial intelligence...
Canadian Ag Could Create $30 billion in Income Over Next Decade
Rekindling productivity growth in Canadian agriculture is a $30 billion opportunity over 10 years according to a new...
2024 Canadian Food Prices Predicted to Rise 2.5 to 4.5 Per cent
The following piece is from our sister publication, Spud Smart. The Canada’s Food Price Report 2024 forecasts overall...
Pulp Mill Waste Could Be Used As Organic Fertilizer
A new study from the University of Alberta (U of A) is showing how pulp mill waste destined for the landfill could...
Alberta Invests to Expand Leduc Food Centre Business Incubator
The Alberta government is expanding the Leduc food centre’s Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator (APBI) by 2,300...
Canadian Wheat, Canola Production Drops on Dry Conditions
Canadian farmers produced less wheat, canola, barley and oats in 2023 due to lower yields in Western Canada where...
Alberta, B.C. Farmers Named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers 2023 Winners
Greg and Sarah Stamp of Stamp Seeds in Enchant, Alta. and Brad and Travis Hopcott with Hopcott Farms in Pitt Meadows,...
Lavie Bio Expands Seed Treatment Yalos to Cover Durum, Barley
Lavie Bio Ltd. is expanding usage its microbiome-based product for spring wheat called Yalos to include durum and...
RDAR Research Showcase to Happen Jan. 11 in Edmonton
Results Driven Agricultural Research (RDAR) will host its second annual research showcase on Jan. 11 at 1 p.m. MST at...
CMBTC Releases 2024 Recommended Malt Barley List
The Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) has published its 2024–2025 list of recommended malting barley...
Canada Produces Top Quality 2023 Wheat Crop
Despite a challenging growing season that led to variable yields and below-average production, Canada produced another...
Cost to Grow Wheat in Canada Falls for 2023
The production costs to grow wheat in Canada fell by 26.5 per cent in 2023, a Nov. 17 news release from Statistics...
Farm Equipment Sales Predicted to Slow in 2024
With higher interest rates, increased equipment prices and a decline in commodity prices, farm equipment sales are...
Feds Give Money to Create Canola Cluster
The Canadian government is giving over $9 million to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) through the AgriScience...
Do More Ag Hosting Event Putting Spotlight on Men’s Mental Health
The Do More Agriculture Foundation is hosting BroTalk, a fireside chat where men in agriculture will open up about...
Ag in the Classroom Canada Hires Mathieu Rouleau as Executive Director
Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) has hired Mathieu Rouleau as the organization's new executive director, a...
AI Tech Being Developed to Improve Protein Crops, Ingredients
Enns Bros., Crop Sentry, DL Seeds and AGT Foods are partnering together to develop new artificial intelligence...
B.C. Launches Program to Support New Farmers
New farmers in British Columbia can apply for financial support to grow their operations through the New Entrant Farm...
Michael Flynn Named Executive Director of Alberta Grains
Michael Flynn has been named as the first executive director of Alberta Grains, an Oct. 23 news release said. He was...
Good Weather Pushes Alberta Harvest to Finish Line
Warm weather across Alberta continued to allow for rapid harvest progress with the majority of crops now in the bin,...
Feds Give $219 million for Drought Recovery in Western Canada
The federal government has allocated $219 million through the AgriRecovery Framework to support Western Canadian...
Jeff Rowe Named New CEO of Syngenta
Jeff Rowe has been elected the new chief executive officer of Syngenta Group by the company's board of directors, an...
Syngenta Launches New Cereal Herbicide Talinor for 2024 Growing Season
Syngenta Canada has launched Talinor, a post emergent cereals herbicide that has a differentiated active ingredient to...
Alberta Crop Harvest Almost Done
Harvest in Alberta is nearing the finish line with 94 per cent of crops in the bin, the Oct. 10 provincial crop report...
Yield10 Makes Strides on Weed Control for Camelina
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. has made significant progress on enabling weed control for camelina cultivation, an Oct. 11...
Do More Ag Launches Walk With Me Mental Health Campaign
The Do More Agriculture Foundation hosted the Walk With Me campaign on World Mental Health Day according to a release....
Alberta Crop Harvest Nearing the Finish Line
The Alberta crop harvest is 88 per cent done which is 13 per cent ahead of the five-year average and 12 per cent ahead...
New Corteva Cereal Fungicide Seed Treatment Straxan Launches
Straxan fungicide seed treatment, a seed and soil-borne cereal disease treatment, has commercially launched in Canada,...
RDAR Invests in Three Genomics Projects
Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) has invested $2.4 million in three Accelerating Agriculture Innovation...
Limited Availability Pushes Farmland Prices Higher
Lack of available farmland for sale is continuing to push land values higher this year, the mid-year farmland values...
Developing A Stronger Understanding of Soil Nutrients
A new study is looking at how phosphorus reacts with mineral compounds and how these reactions can impact how well...
Seeds Canada Picks Erin Armstrong to Flesh Out ISSB Concept
The following piece is from our sister publication, Germination. Seeds Canada has hired Erin Armstrong, former CEO of...
Brent Derkatch Named New CEO of Canterra Seeds
The following piece is from our sister publication, Germination. Canterra Seeds has announced that Brent Derkatch has...
Alberta Harvest Progress Ticks Up to 79 Per cent Done
Limited disruptions allowed the Alberta crop harvest to edge its way up to 79 per cent done, the Sept. 26 provincial...