It’s been an interesting year in the world of agriculture, but aren’t they all?
We’ve published just shy of 3,000 stories – an average of about eight per day – on the Western Producer website in 2024, covering a wide variety of subjects from bird flu to wild pigs.
Here are our Top 10 stories of 2024 based on the traffic they’ve received on our website:
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10 – Farmland prices may have reached turning point – What if current grain prices and squeezed margins are the new normal? Certainly, there are well-capitalized operations with a great deal of resilience. However, you have to think there will be operations financially stretched by aggressive expansion.
9 – Fed-up Ontario farmer seeks move to Prairies – Rob Glover is done with Ontario. The 33 year old would like to own and operate a farm near his hometown of Peterborough, but the math doesn’t make sense. To purchase 100 acres and run a small herd of beef cattle, the price tag for the land could be $1.5 to $2 million or more.
8 – Alberta gets farm family class one driver’s license – Alberta farmers and their family members now have the option to apply for a farm-restricted class one driver’s licence.
7 – Dairy farm sued over mud slick – Keystone Agricultural Producers says it’s closely following a lawsuit filed against a Steinbach-area dairy farm.
6 – John Deere launches T6 800 combine – After New Holland introduced the rotary combine concept with its first TR model in the 1970s, that threshing system came to dominate the market in North America.
5 – A mega farm’s controversial plan to grow crops in Manitoba’s ‘cattle country’ – Monette farms, one of Canada’s largest grain farming operations, is stirring up controversy with its plan to raise crops in Manitoba’s Westlake region, an area formerly used for cattle production.
4 – VIDEO: Shooting not the answer with wild pigs – Don’t shoot. That’s the plea from virtually all wild pig experts who are fighting the reasonable — but wrong — assumption among many hunters, farmers and other gunowners that shooting a wild pig helps control the growing problem.
3 – Where will China buy canola? – China’s canola crushers could face significant hardships if the country slaps tariffs on Canadian exports, say analysts.
2 – Why did Caterpillar sell off the Challenger line? – In early 2002, Caterpillar sold the Challenger belted tractor line it had developed to Agco, just 16 years after it introduced it to the market.
1 – Canadian farmers blamed for ag chemical in U.S. oat foods – A U.S. environmental group is pointing a finger at Canadian oat growers, saying they’re the cause of ag chemical residues found in Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
