After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, Agriculture for Life (Ag for Life) is excited to once again host the popular Harvest Gala; a special event celebrating Alberta agriculture…

Consider that growers tend to believe their product is undervalued and will rise in price.

On June 11, 1945, two University of Saskatchewan professors, Evan Hardy and Hal Lewis, drove from Saskatoon to Kindersley, a small town in the western part of the province.

Ray Somerville was an ambitious entrepreneur with his sons creating and operating successful businesses, including grain farming…

We live in a world of binary thinking. Where there are two sides, and you can only pick one. Are you with me or against me? We attach labels with certainty.

Mother Nature certainly flexed her muscles in the 2017 growing season. Drought, fires, and poor stock water quality are just some issues that caused grief for Saskatchewan ranchers.

Rare and Endangered plants are an often overlooked part of conservation work, most being small and hard to find in isolated ecosystems.

EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA), a leading renewable energy developer and operator in North America, has begun construction on the 297-megawatt (MW) Sharp Hills Wind Farm…

19 per cent of the crop is now combined ahead of the five-year average (2017-2021) of 13 per cent. Areas that saw semi-regular rains are reporting yields above or closer to average…

Rosana Farms, owned and operated by Robin and Brenda Walde and their three children, is a family farm located just south of Kindersley that prides itself in its land stewardship.

Harold Appleby has spent a lifetime in the agriculture industry. At 97 years of age, he enjoys life at Caleb Village in Kindersley, where he has resided since 2016.

A feasibility report funded by the Government of Alberta, the Canada Infrastructure Bank, the Special Areas Board, and the MD of Acadia shows 108,000 acres of previously cultivated land…

Intuitively, ranchers know that native prairie grasslands provide a range of beneficial ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, but it can be confusing to sort out exactly how carbon dynamics and grasslands are related.

My small town of Eatonia had a second-hand consignment store. I want to say it opened in the early 1980s. It could have been in the late 1970s.

How do I begin trading? I was asked this question by a grower interested in managing his investments and using futures as a risk management strategy.

Aug. 14-20 is Local Food Week, an opportunity to celebrate the Alberta producers and processors who make and grow nutritious food for families around the globe.

Tanya, the mother of the Ukrainian Family, new to Oyen, provides traditional Ukrainian meal consisting of homemade perogies, borscht soup, and your choice of a Ukrainian dessert…

“I am not selling Durum until the price returns to $22 per bushel.” It was January. I was having a conversation with a Durum grower. The ‘fundamentals’ were still bullish with supply levels dropping and the new Durum harvest months away.

Growers who give canola crops time for all seeds to reach maturity can see a 10 per cent increase in yield. That is why the Canola Council of Canada recommends swathing when the main stem shows at least 60 per cent seed colour change.

Twenty-one-year-old Thane Hogan, son of Richard and Yvonne Hogan of Oyen, completed his third year at the University of Saskatchewan in their Animal Science Program earlier this year.