Three Hills farmer earns Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmers award through marketing of Alect Seeds to bring the best varieties and crop types to their customers and improve the quality of the land they farm.
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Weigum’s work with Alect Seeds earns her Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmer award
Sarah Weighum specializes in pedigreed seed production and retail sales in a business she owns with her parents
Reduce Ascochyta blight with an intercrop
Flax/chickpea blend an ‘eye catcher’
Chickpea flax intercrop has been proving successful in reducing fungal disease, says AAFC at Ag in Motion 2025
Manitoba Crop Report: Rains not enough to curb dryness
Some areas receive deluge; others still dry
Many areas of Manitoba received varied amounts of rainfall during the week ended July 6, 2025. However, it was not enough to replenish moisture in some areas.
Company builds flax plant in Saskatchewan
Grain Millers’ $30 million processing plant is located near Saskatoon in an area where the crop still has a strong foothold
Grain Millers has built a flax plant in Delisle, Saskatchewan, which is now operational and producing bulk or mini-bulk shipments of flaxseed.
Canadian farmers planted fewer canola acres than expected, StatCan projects
StatCan revises 2024/25 canola output
In something of a surprise, Statistics Canada lowered its projection for planted canola acres in 2025/26, with other oilseeds reaping some of the benefits. As well, StatCan adjusted its numbers for Canadian wheat.
Flax retaining May gains
StatCan projects smallest planted area in 76 years
Flax prices continue to ride the upswing the oilseed experienced in May, said Scott Shiels, grain procurement manager for Grain Millers Canada in Yorkton, Sask.
‘Extremely limited’ flax supply in Black Sea region
European duties and sanctions curtailed imports of Russian flax, which then displaced Canadian supply into China
Flax stocks are low in the Black Sea region, according to analysts.
Canadian flax genetics on road to improvement
Fewer Manitoba farmers grow flax than they used to, but work into new varieties may increase the oilseed’s appeal in Western Canada
Fewer Manitoba farmers grow flax than they used to, but work on new varieties may increase the oilseed’s appeal in Western Canada
Growers show flax interest amid canola turmoil
Statistics Canada forecasts an acreage drop, but a processor says farmers have been phoning since the U.S. trade war erupted
Statistics Canada has projected that flax acres will decline in 2025. That could happen, but with the trade and tariff uncertainty surrounding canola this winter, more growers are contacting Tyson Fehr and asking questions about the crop.
Man. crop almost harvested
Harvest operations across Manitoba are nearly complete, with only sunflowers and corn left to come off the fields, according to the latest provincial crop report for the week ended Oct. 22. The total harvest hit 95 per cent complete, with the majority of fall field work also finished. Of the major crops, an estimated one […] Read more
