Reading Time: 4 minutes At one time, scientists, agronomists and growers were extremely worried clubroot would spread across the Prairies and devastate Canada’s canola industry.
Canola’s clubroot success story
Once there was worry of agronomic disaster; today, the disease has become manageable
Still hard to predict precise fertilizer payback
Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth.
Canadian beekeepers call for regulatory accountability
Some groups in the sector are frustrated with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s ban on U.S. packaged bees
Reading Time: 7 minutes Beekeepers say the Canadian Food Inspection Agency should restore U.S. packaged bee shipments, claiming the agency isn’t following evidence.
Feedlots get good results from wet-corn feed
Wet corn making a splash in keeping up with steam flake corn in quality as feed for cattle for TFS Expanse
Reading Time: 3 minutes Southern Alberta feedlot business is exploring wet corn for the quality of its feed for beef cattle.
Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
Packaged food makers and fast-food restaurants may be forced to overhaul more of their products next year as newly approved, appetite-suppressing GLP-1 pills become available in January, analysts say.
An unbelievable tale of a lost engagement ring
Nearly 50 years later, a southern Alberta farmer finds her needle in a haystack
Reading Time: 4 minutes After nearly 50 years, a southern Alberta farmer finds her wedding ring in an unusual place.
Southern Alberta college inches into Top 10 research schools
Lethbridge Polytechnic recently recognized as ninth in research among 50 educational institutions in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Southern Alberta polytechnic ranks in Top 10 nationally as a research college thanks to some of its work in agriculture.
UCP government throws Corb Lund’s anti-coal petition a curveball
Alberta Elections informs Lund his previously approved citizen petition has been cancelled
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the passing of Bill 14 by Alberta’s United Conservative Party provincial government, country singer Corb Lund’s anti-coal mining petition has been cancelled retroactively.
Canadians called slow to embrace biofuel policy
Agricultural producers encouraged to embrace stronger government biofuel policies for for their commodities
Reading Time: 2 minutes Speaker looks to ethanol as a burgeoning market for agricultural commodities in Canada
Pulse Weekly: Tariffs guide yellow peas in 2025
Tariffs were a major influence on Canadian yellow pea prices in 2025, with levies imposed by China and India. The two countries are Canada’s biggest foreign pulse buyers.
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