Stories by Greg Price

A number of large tractor trailer units scattered among the traffic on a busy divided highway.

Crop Management, Farm Living, Livestock Management, News

Alberta cracks down on trucking industry

High number of bridge strikes prompt investigation that leads to drriving school shutdowns and revoked licences

Alberta transportation industry receives numerous sanctions and suspensions after crackdown investigation resulting from numerous bridge strikes and concerned calls and letters from concerned citizens

2 days ago

Research associate Selin Karatepe from Lethbridge Polytechnic poses, smiling, for a photo.

News

Alberta researcher helps unlock the economics of farming

Virtual tool designed in Lethbridge to determine economic feasibility in controlled-environment agriculture

Lethbridge Polytechnic researcher helping agriculture producers with decision-making tools in economic feasibility

4 days ago

One man holds a "frame" from a bee hive with fresh honeycombs and honey on it for him to sample inside a white tin-walled processing facility.

Farm Living

Alberta honey business ‘thrives’ despite bumpy beginnings

Southern Alberta business harnesses the power of bees to make honey and provide pollination services

Thrive Honey showcases its honey production in market where Alberta produces 40 per cent of all honey produced in the country

September 25, 2025

Dairy cows on a Canadian farm eating at a feed bunk. Ventilation fans are shown over top of them.

Livestock Management, News

U.S. farm group supports supply management

Advocacy group hopes U.S. dairy sector starts to mirror Canadian supply management with proposed legislation

U.S. grassroots farm advocacy group pushing new agriculture legislation that would move towards supply management like Canada has for dairy industry

September 21, 2025

Farm Living, News

From farmer to award-winning distiller

Rolling Hills farmer’s succession plan includes producing award-winning whisky while pursing passion

Pivot Spirits showcases transition from farmer to distiller with provincial award-winning results in Alberta for Lars Hirch

September 21, 2025

An older man sits in the pilot seat of a helicopter wearing a helmet with a radio mike boom attached.

Farm Living

Alberta farmer served as rescue pilot

Southern Alberta farmer remembered for the numerous lives he impacted as rescue pilot for HALO

Former southern Alberta farmer/rancher remembered as first pilot for HALO Air Ambulance, flying numerous missions and saving lives in rural communities.

September 18, 2025

A woman kneels in a potato field next to a round, green metal cylinder - a spore trap - mounted on a tripod that has a solar panel on it.

Crop Management

Program helps Alberta potato growers fight late blight

Spore-trapping program has positive reputation across North America for saving on input costs in potato industry

Decade-long implementation of Insect Monitoring and Spore Trapping Program has netted positive results for Potato Growers of Alberta in its fight against late blight.

September 17, 2025

A ripe cob of corn on the stalk has had its husk peeled away exposing its yellow kernels.

Markets, News

Crop estimates show mixed results

Model-based estimates used by Statistics Canada showed the 2025/26 crop year has seen increases in canola, corn for grain, oats and lentils production while seeing dips in spring wheat, durum wheat, soybeans and barley in comparison to 2024/25.

September 17, 2025