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Thinking like a pig can help keep pigs calm and reduce the farmer’s own frustration at the loading bay and in the barn
A new report highlights price drops in agricultural chemicals, but rising raw material costs and market volatility could reverse the trend
Spray application specialist Tom Wolf shares insights on how spraying issues can affect resistant weeds
Canada’s pork industry faces new risks as U.S. trade policies disrupt market stability
The last big outbreak is said to have cost Prairie canola growers $400 million in yield losses
Disease is a relative newcomer to Canada and has been the subject of little research globally
The program hopes to capture value for producers and remove questions about what counts as ‘regenerative’ farming
UPDATED – January 10, 2025 – 1720 CST – A Manitoba farmer has become the first in the province to get certified under a new regenerative agriculture assessment program. Andreas Boersch, president of Abtshof Farms Ltd., received his “Regenified” verification status on Oct. 2. Boersch’s farm near the central Manitoba community of Elie, west of […] Read more
A CBC transmission tower in Saskatchewan is tapped to monitor agricultural nitrous oxide levels 100 metres in the air
A group of researchers, policy makers and producer organizations is repurposing part of a CBC transmission tower to get data on agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. The tower at Yorkton, Sask., will be fitted with sensors to measure agricultural nitrous oxide emissions 100 metres above the ground. The group, dubbed CanN20net, held its inaugural meeting in […] Read more
Experts highlight importance of collaboration to contain problem weeds
Glacier FarmMedia – Distributing the message about problem weeds tends to fall on the shoulders of private and retail agronomists, says Manitoba Agriculture weed specialist Kim Brown. “I reach a fair number of farmers in this province, but we probably have 8,500 registered farmers, and we can’t reach them all. So, we rely heavily on […] Read more
New research could lead to higher-yielding varieties better suited to a warming climate
An unexpected side effect of gene editing research at the University of Guelph could pay dividends for canola breeders in the years ahead. The discovery stemmed from research that began in 2016. The research examined how carbohydrate metabolism is affected in Arabidopsis when substituting one of its genes with the corresponding gene from a corn […] Read more
