UPDATED: 1145 CST – July 24, 2015 – It’s been years in the making, and now Ag In Motion has come and gone. We hope you enjoyed our coverage of the show. Video Highlights: Social Media #AIM15 Tweets Stories New AIM farm show hits mark – Heavy equipment hard at […] Read more
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CWB Crop Tour 2015
UPDATED: 1400 CST – July 24, 2015 – The 2015 CWB Crop Tour has wrapped up. The WP had reporters on all legs of the tour, and the sum of all their reporting – stories, photos, videos, and social media postings – will be found on this page below. This page will […] Read more
VIDEO: Organic growers urged to share agronomy info
Farmers who swap information and production methods can boost yields while improving the soil
CARMAN, Man. — Jeremiah Evans had a big production problem in his organic fields. “The crop was just overcome by wild oats and mustard most of the time,” Evans said in an interview during the July 15 organic field day at the University of Manitoba’s Carman research farm. “Thistles were a problem. Quack grass.” So last […] Read more
VIDEO: Striving for shoes that fit like glove
WEYBURN, Sask. — Taris Tuffs admitted to being terrified. However, the apprentice farrier quickly found her footing as she competed in her first farrier competition, the Chad Johnstone Memorial, at the Weyburn Agricultural Society fair. “I just started my course in January,” said the advanced farrier sciences student from Olds College after completing the first […] Read more
VIDEO: CWB tour aims to assess size, quality
High variability from field to field and region to region makes it tough to properly gauge the 2015 western Canadian crop
Market research experts at CWB will be dusting off their boots and sharpening their pencils next week in an effort to estimate the size and quality of this year’s grain and oilseed harvest. CWB’s second annual western Canadian crop tour begins July 21 with groups departing from Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Calgary. Each group will follow […] Read more
VIDEO: How Foghorn the rooster got new feet
After a couple of stumbles, a rooster named Foghorn is now putting his best foot forward, thanks to an engineering feat from the University of Calgary’s faculty of veterinary medicine and school of mechanical engineering. Foghorn was a backyard chicken in Calgary who lost his feet due to frostbite. He was barely walking on bloody […] Read more
VIDEO: Canola losing resistance
Clubroot resistant lines of canola are under siege in Alberta. In 2014, researchers identified a new strain of the disease that appeared in six fields in central Alberta in 2013. The strain, known as 5X, was able to overcome resistance built into new varieties. Last week, researchers announced that a data analysis based on a […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – July 15, 2015
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts three markets videos, oilseeds, cereals, and livestock. The videos are designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered. […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – July 9, 2015
Oilseed: Analysts are trimming back their forecasts or Northern Hemisphere crops and that has lifted prices recently But what was a red hot rally appears to have lost some steam this week with signs of more moderate weather. Cereals: Challenging weather in several wheat growing regions around the world have hurt production prospects. Wheat prices […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – July 2, 2015
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts two markets videos, crops and livestock. The videos are designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered. Crops: […] Read more
