Reading Time: 4 minutes Two Albertans, who have a cow-calf operation near McRae, had the idea to create Arvo, an online farmers’ market, after being unable to find beef from within their own community.
Taking the farmers’ market online
Arvo is a new website acting as an online farmers’ market for producers and consumers
Auctioneering runs in Lawes family’s blood
Casey Lawes, the 2025 Canadian livestock auctioneering champion, comes from a long line of auctioneers
Reading Time: 3 minutes A genuine personality and respect for ranchers helped Casey Lawes of Provost, Alberta win the Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s auctioneering championship.
Province streamlines rules for ag marketing boards, commissions
Producer groups on board with ‘red tape cutting’ measure removing redundant regulations from foundational document
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta farm marketing organizations are applauding the Province of Alberta for new amendments eliminating redundant paperwork-intensive regulations for agriculture marketing boards and commissions.
Feed Grain Weekly: Prices ‘percolating sideways’
Transportation issues push up barley prices
As winter conditions descended on Alberta, prices for feed grains bumped up a little, but were otherwise "percolating sideways," stated Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge.