Reading Time: 2 minutes BASF unveils Alberta volunteer organization finalists for Growing Home With BASF initiative as voting opens for Albertans to pick a winner.
Three Alberta organizations vie for $40,000 in BASF Growing Home contest
Battle River Ag Society, Athabasca District Ag Society and Trochu Seniors Housing Society are competing for public votes through April 17
RDAR survey asks Alberta beef producers to weigh in on genomics research priorities
Responses will help shape future funding for genetic and genomic technologies in the cattle sector
Reading Time: < 1 minute RDAR seeks producer input on genomics and genetic technology priorities.
When the taps run dry
A Calgary water outage sends Hart back to the 1960s drought that tested his family’s farm
Reading Time: 4 minutes A modern water outage sends a columnist back to the decade when wells ran dry and every stem of hay counted.
Water, water everywhere … for farmers and data centres
Alberta irrigation expert breaks down water demand as province targets $100B in AI infrastructure
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta's push for AI data centres raises water questions, but irrigation district manager says northern rivers have plenty of capacity for ag and tech.
Calgary-area MLA named Alberta’s new ag minister
RJ Sigurdson to handle ag file, Horner moves to finance
The Alberta government’s caucus lead on emergency medical services (EMS) reform has been promoted to handle the agriculture file in a post-election cabinet shuffle. RJ Sigurdson, MLA for the constituency of Highwood, just south of Calgary, was sworn in Friday by Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani as Alberta’s new minister of agriculture and irrigation, replacing Nate Horner. […] Read more
Crop quality has been a steep, fast downward plunge
Reading Time: 2 minutes The crop report from Alberta Agriculture in late July was — not surprisingly — dismal. But the speed of the deterioration of crop quality was nevertheless noteworthy. “Only 20 per cent of the annual crops (are) good or excellent,” it said in its end-of-July report. “This represents a 17-point drop in the last two weeks […] Read more
Well workshops with a local flavour
Reading Time: < 1 minute With the pandemic sidelining in-person meetings, Working Well workshops are being held online — but with a local element. The workshops provide information for rural property owners on how to manage and maintain their wells. This year, there will be seven online workshops hosted by municipalities during February and March. Each will have experts from […] Read more
Insect specialist Scott Meers retires
Reading Time: < 1 minute The man known as the ‘bug counter’ is stepping down. In an email he wrote to the Alberta Insect Pest Monitoring network newsletter, Scott Meers said that it has been an honour to work in this role, but it is time to move on. He also stated that he has made the decision independent of […] Read more
Wet weather continues, stalling Alberta harvest further
Alberta Crop Report: Conditions as of October 15
Reading Time: 5 minutes Wet weather along with below normal temperatures have been the dominant pattern in Alberta over the past couple of weeks. During the long weekend, large areas in the North East and North West Regions received between 10 to 15 mm of precipitation in the form of either rain or rain and snow mix. For the […] Read more
Seeding in Alberta complete, forage growers struggle with dry weather
Alberta Crop Report: Conditions as of June 11
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the exception of a few feed crops, seeding is essentially finished in Alberta. Producers are actively spraying and scouting fields. Areas of concern vary from smoke and frost in the north to flea beetles and cutworms in other pockets of the province. In the week ending June 11 there were rainfall events providing 15 […] Read more