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Photo by Greg Price Dr. Mike Harding, crop assurance lead for Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation, was on hand at a recent field school at Farming Smarter, telling of and showing the various cereal leaf diseases producers have to look for in the southern Alberta. Stripe rust has appeared in fields in the region where growers are encouraged to scout their fields for it to best combat it before it progresses too much.
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Stripe rust confirmed in Alberta fields

Farmers are encouraged to scout their fields for stripe rust disease so that they know if fungicide applications are warranted

Farmers are encouraged to scout their fields for stripe rust disease so that they know if fungicide applications are warranted
2025 Alberta Order of Excellence inductee John Scotts calms a horse with Robin Williams sitting on it on the set of Night at the Museum.
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Rancher’s rodeo skills took him to Hollywood

Alberta Order of Excellence inductee’s movie production company has meant millions of dollars to provincial economy

His love of animals and rodeo experience landed John Scott a job as a stuntman in the 1970s in Hollywood. The rest is history.
A stylized rendering of the outline of a bald man's head repeated inside itself multiple times.
Farm Living

Male farmers face stresses unique to agriculture

Loss of animals, farm succession, labour-intensive harvest and higher suicide rates contribute to farmers’ mental burden

June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and a farm-focused initiative has found four factors that adversely affect male producers’ mental well-being.
Cory Nelson, a member of the Palliser Triangle Marketing Group, stands next to one of the tents he sets up in seed canola and alfalfa fields in southern Alberta to manage leafcutter bee colonies for pollination services.
Crop Management, News

Alberta marketing club looks back at its successes

Palliser Triangle Marketing Group credited with helping many southern Alberta farmers thrive in new agricultural realities

The Palliser Triangle Marketing Group may be more of a social club now, but in the mid-1990s, it meant economic survival for some southern Alberta farmers.

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