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
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VIDEO: Environmental groups debate agricultural regulations
Lobby group official says certain farm practices should be regulated to avoid “random acts of conservation”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Decades-old fertilizer and manure are seeping into U.S. streams and rivers and the better nutrient practices of today might take decades to have a measurable impact. That’s the challenging reality farmers, regulators and governments are having in the United States in dealing with nitrogen, phosphorus and pesticide leaching. “It can take from […] Read more
VIDEO: Student impressed with canola inventor
The man might not get a lot of publicity these days, but to Winnipeg student Tom Zaburdyaev, plant breeder Baldur Stefansson seems cool. “It’s pretty amazing,” said Zaburdyaev, a Grade 6 student, about the agricultural history he discovered when he began looking into the story of Stefansson and the creation of canola. “I thought, how […] Read more
Video: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – May 6, 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
VIDEO: Industry slow to defend GMOs, says ag minister
The federal agriculture minister says the first battle that needs to be waged in the war on biotechnology is with the media, but that skirmish isn’t going so well. Gerry Ritz is determined to combat the misinformation about the technology that is being spread in big city newspapers across the country. He spends “a disproportionate […] Read more
VIDEO: Farming from above
Crop scouting aircraft downloads pictures instantly to help farmers assess trouble spots
GWYNNE, Alta. — The joke in Bret Chilcott’s family was that the Kansas farm boy wasted all the money he earned working on his father’s farm on flying lessons and model aircraft. Chilcott has now combined his knowledge of farming, flying and model aircraft to design and build a plane to map agricultural land. “This […] Read more
Video: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – April 22, 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
Video: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – April 22, 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
VIDEO: NDP ag platform light on details
Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley says she is running to be premier. Running appears to be the operative word, because she visited most of Alberta’s major cities during the first week of the campaign that culminates in a May 5 election. Notley made a campaign stop in Lethbridge April 8, where she officially launched the […] Read more
VIDEO: Producers praise CIGI course explaining buyer needs
Demonstrations showed challenges faced by food millers and processors if wheat is poor quality or low protein
Wheat’s value is all about its quality — or many qualities. However, the farmers who grow it often know little about what’s inside the kernel or what distant and little-known buyers do with it. That reality came home to farmers Scott Sefton of Broadview, Sask., and Heather Breitkreuz of Onoway, Alta., who attended the recent […] Read more
