Olds College has launched the country’s first fully dedicated agriculture communications program.

New program teaches communication in ag

Olds College welcomes students to first agriculture communications program in Canada

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian students had no options. If they wanted to study agriculture communications, they had to attend programs at U.S. colleges and universities. But as of this fall, they can study closer to home, at Olds College, where an agriculture-focused communications program has launched. “Communications has been part of our curriculum for most of our students […] Read more

“There are a huge number of practices to both reduce emissions and increase carbon sequestration...” – Joy Agnew.

The unbalanced carbon equation

Measurement mechanisms lacking, progress difficult to quantify, Alberta experts say

Reading Time: 3 minutes The goals to reduce fertilizer-based emissions by 30 per cent by the end of this decade, and achieve net zero by 2050, have been set.  The target has raised a number of challenges and opportunities for researchers working to support these efforts, including how to calculate an accurate footprint, and what incentives are necessary to […] Read more