Robert Arnason

Robert Arnason

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Robert Arnason is a reporter with The Western Producer and Glacier Farm Media. Since 2008, he has authored nearly 5,000 articles on anything and everything related to Canadian agriculture. He didn’t grow up on a farm, but Robert spent hundreds of days on his uncle’s cattle and grain farm in Manitoba. Robert started his journalism career in Winnipeg as a freelancer, then worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Nipawin, Saskatchewan and Fernie, BC. Robert has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in LSJF – Long Suffering Jets’ Fan.

Stories by Robert Arnason

A Nissan Leaf EV sits at a charger station with the charging cable connected to the front of the vehicle.
News, Tariffs

EV subsidies take another hit

Canadian Federation of Independent Business says government support for electric vehicle sector threatens agriculture

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is asking the federal government to re-assess its subsidies for electric vehicles and battery manufacturing in Canada.
A canola field in full yellow bloom.
News

U.S. canola acres look to drop

Falling prices and attacks on seed oils have North Dakota growers thinking twice

Canola acres in North Dakota will likely decline this spring.
Screencap of the homepage of the Modern Ag Alliance organization showing a farmer walking in his field with the text, " Control weeds, not farming," written overtop.
Crop Management, News

North Dakota bill could limit pesticide lawsuits

Critics of the legislation say it will make it impossible to challenge manufacturers in court over the safety of their products

On April 9, the North Dakota state senate voted in favour of a bill that could protect pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits.
Heather Blewett and her daughter, Madelyn, wearing protective glasses, white lab coats and holding a flask in a lab.
Farm Living

Food facts matter over theories

AAFC researcher working to validate the health benefits of Canadian crops

Theories are interesting fodder over coffee at Tim Horton’s, but data matters.
A group of men and women in suits stand around a boardroom table with an American flag in the background.
News, Tariffs

Reminding Americans why Canada matters

A Canadian agri-food delegation visited Washington to make the case that tariff-free trade benefits both countries

There’s one thing that Canadian farmers and all Canadians need to know, says Stephen Heckbert. South of the border, no one is talking about Canada.
Looking up from the ground at a large, round Bayer logo sign with a man wiping it clean with a cloth at the bottom.
Crop Management, Farm Living, News

Glyphosate class action moves forward in Canada

Bayer defends safety of the herbicide, but legal costs may force withdrawal from U.S. market

Multiple law firms across the country – in Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere – are now recruiting Canadians to join a class action lawsuit related to Roundup and cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
A ripened head of a barley plant bends downward under the weight of its kernels.
Crop Management, News

Is 100 bushel barley a legitimate yield target?

New barley varieties are high yielding and lower protein, so farmers can bump nitrogen rates to drive these varieties harder

Chad Ferguson, a SaskBarley director and farmer from Naicam, Sask., said the agronomic information is out there for barley, so farmers can achieve higher quality and better yields.
A yellow pea plant in the flowering stage with white blooms.
Crop Management

Producers slow to adopt new pulse varieties

SaskPulse recently shared information on varieties fading in popularity, and those gaining traction with growers

During a webinar this winter, SaskPulse shared information on pulse varieties that are fading in popularity and the ones that are gaining traction with growers.

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