Reading Time: 2 minutes From tense contract negotiations in Montreal to a record-breaking "mad rush" planting in May, the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers’ 100th year was anything but predictable. Here's how southern Alberta producers managed to beat the five-year sugar content average and navigate local disease pressures to deliver over 726,000 tonnes.
100 years of sweet success: Alberta Sugar Beet Growers overcome tough ’25 season
Despite a delayed start and contract hurdles, Southern Alberta sugar beet producers delivered above-average yields and record sugar content for their centennial harvest
A look at disease prevalence in Alberta crops in 2025
Early stripe rust in the growing season increases its chances to spread exponentially
Reading Time: 5 minutes Crop assurance program lead gives irrigated farmers a recap of disease prevalence in crops throughout Alberta
New Syngenta fungicide targets anthracnose, white mould, Ascochyta blight
Lentil growers in Canada have a new option for controlling three major disease threats to the crop.
Scouting for disease in canola crops
Alberta agronomist shares his knowledge of four big crop diseases along with how to find and control them in your fields
Reading Time: 6 minutes Inspecting your canola fields for early signs of disease can save you plenty of headaches in the long run.
Canola’s clubroot success story
Once there was worry of agronomic disaster; today, the disease has become manageable
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.
Alberta crop diversification centres receive funding
Upgrades and replacements to greenhouses, labs and administrative buildings supported in Edmonton, Brooks
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Government of Alberta has pumped $5.2 million of provincial funding into crop diversity research centres in Edmonton and Brooks.
Saskatchewan Crop Report: Varied precipitation as harvest begins
Dry areas begin harvest operations
Some areas of Saskatchewan received more than 100 mm of rain during the week ended Aug. 4, 2025, but others had little to none. Harvest operations began in those dry areas.
Stripe rust confirmed in Alberta fields
Farmers are encouraged to scout their fields for stripe rust disease so that they know if fungicide applications are warranted
Reading Time: 3 minutes Confirmed sightings of stripe rust in Alberta have prompted experts to encourage growers in southern Alberta, along with those in the Drumheller and Calgary regions, to scout their fields for the disease.
Pulse Weekly: Conditions vary across Saskatchewan
Weather, lack of moisture affecting crops
Pulse conditions in Saskatchewan are varied across the province with the worst-faring crops located in the western half.
Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat
A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a “dangerous biological pathogen” is a common type of fungus already widespread in U.S. crop fields that likely poses little risk to food safety, experts said.