Sarah Sutton

Reading Time: 2 minutes LETHBRIDGE Lethbridge’s premier agriculture show always draws thousands of visitors, and this year was no exception. About 19,000 visitors attended the show here from March 4 to 6. The show included the North American Seed Fair, outdoor equipment displays, and 350 indoor booths, manned by 520 exhibitors promoting everything from farm equipment to chemicals to […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes FORT MACLEOD Agrizzly bear in the Blackfoot River Valley in western Montana can trigger an early warning system without even knowing it. As soon as he is spotted too close to cattle or a residence, the neighbour network is activated. Phones ring and e-mails arrive at inboxes at ranches in the area. Through the neighbour […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes “We’re not here to tell you what to grow and shove a quota system down your throats – I want to dispel that rumour right now.” lethbridge Potato growers have a new friend: the United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC). The co-operative organization, while still relatively new, is ramping up its efforts to improve the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes LETHBRIDGE The natural response to high prices is to plant more to compensate for the lower price, right? Wrong, says Jerry Wright, chief executive officer of the United Potato Growers of Idaho, a member co-op of the United Potato Growers of America. He says potato growers are masters of their own destiny in the supply-demand […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes “We need to be smarter about future growth to be truly effective.” As Alberta moves toward completion of its Landuse Framework, there continues to be questions about how water will be managed, Evan Berger, Livingston-Macleod MLA and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Sustainable Resource Development. “We need to be smarter about future growth to […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes A water supply study of the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) due in June needs to be based on good science and clear evidence, says Brent Paterson, director of Alberta Agriculture’s Irrigation and Farm Water Division. Paterson told delegates at the Alberta Irrigation Projects Association’s annual conference here in early February that there’s experience to […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beef branding programs may help move Canada’s cattle industry forward, but market access will remain a limiting factor, says Andrea Brocklebank, research manager of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “The North American beef industry is in transition and we need to position Canadian beef through value chain development,” Brocklebank told Tiffin Conference participants here in late […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes On the grounds of Agriculture Canada’s Lethbridge Research Centre (LRC) stand two unique poplar trees representing the past, present and future of agricultural research in southern Alberta. The sapling, planted three years ago, is a clone of the famous Fairfield poplar of 1906, one of the oldest and largest of its kind in southern Alberta. […] Read more