A soybean field at sunrise.

New Bayer genetics to open up soybean herbicide tolerance

Vyconic trait set offers tolerance to five herbicides and will be integrated with the company’s soybean varieties in coming years

If all goes according to plan, by 2027 soybean farmers throughout Canada will have new soybean varieties with tolerance to five key herbicides.



Yellow flowers in a lush green pasture.

Report tracks pasture loss in Canada

Forage industry says there are ways to claw pasture and grassland back, while also protecting farm profit

Canada’s tame pasture acres haven’t changed that much over the last two decades, according to a new report from the National Farmers Union, but that might not be the whole story.


Michael McCain, executive chair of Maple Leaf Foods.

Maple Leaf touts business model success

Maple Leafs Foods CEO talks about prioritizing values, fostering environmental responsiblity and rejecting “short-termism” over a decade of change for the food company

The executive chair of one of Canada’s largest food manufacturers has outlined his company’s plans for a “new model for capitalism,” underpinned by sustainability.


Cattle graze in a lush green pasture in the summer.

Trade war raises profile of Livestock Price Insurance

The cost of Livestock Price Insurance has previously had farmers balking: Tariff-driven market risks though might make a policy worth it for Canadian beef and hog producers this year

Livestock Price Insurance is expensive, but now tariffs are flying fast at Canadian pork and beef producers, and trade war market risks mean farmers may be rethinking that math for 2025.


Pork carcasses hang in a refrigerated locker.

U.S. pork begs for tariff exemption from Canada

A national U.S. pork organization is lobbying the Canadian federal government to drop its tariffs on the U.S. pork industry. According to a blog entry on the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) website, the NPPC has written to Canada’s Department of Finance, noting that “tit-for-tat tariff exchanges” will disrupt supply chains built between the two […] Read more

A large red tractor pulls an air seeding rig planting fall rye beside a crop of wheat.

Value of Canadian farmland ‘robust’ but cracks are appearing

Average prices across the country grew by nine per cent last year, although the rate of growth continues to drop year over year

The average value of Canada’s cultivated farmland grew by 9.3 per cent in 2024, less than its growth in 2023 but nevertheless a “robust” number, says the chief economist of Farm Credit Canada, which released its annual Farmland Values Report March 18.