Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor harvest conditions this fall could drive up fertilizer prices next spring. “For many producers right now in Alberta, fertilizer isn’t top of mind. They’re focused on getting the harvest off,” said Craig Klemmer, principal agriculture economist at Farm Credit Canada. “So when we look at the pricing side of things, demand wasn’t as strong […] Read more
Horrible harvest could impact fertilizer prices
Prices are already rising, but the late harvest is limiting the ability to apply or buy fertilizer now
Take me out to the wide-open prairie (and a ball game, too)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Quick — what tops a trip to Niagara Falls or taking in a Blue Jays game on a nice summer day? Full points if you answered, ‘Seeing how the Prairies was laid out in one-mile square blocks.’ That was, indeed, one of the highlights for nine members of Ontario’s Hastings County 4-H Exchange Club when […] Read more
Career resource for 4-H’ers receives funding
Reading Time: < 1 minute 4-H Canada has been given $400,000 over the next two years for its Careers on the Grow program and job-matching board, as well as career programming at a provincial level. The donation is coming from RBC Future Launch, a 10-year, $500-million initiative from the bank aimed at empowering Canadian youth to build meaningful careers. The […] Read more
Elm pruning ban over until March
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s now time “to start taking the dead wood out of your elm trees,” says Janet Feddes-Calpas, executive director, Society to Prevent Dutch Elm Disease (STOPDED). The only time it is legal to prune elms in Alberta is between Oct. 1 and March 31. “This is when the elm bark beetles, responsible for spreading the […] Read more
Applications open for 2019 Youth Ag Summit in Brazil
Reading Time: < 1 minute Applications are being accepted for the 2019 Youth Ag Summit in Brazil. The event, sponsored by Bayer, brings together 100 young people aged 18 to 25 from across the globe to develop solutions on how to feed a hungry planet in a more sustainable manner. The first summit took place in Calgary in 2013 and […] Read more
Popular Working Well program launches new season
Reading Time: < 1 minute A new season of Working Well workshops gets underway this month. Since it was launched in 2008, there have been 254 workshops on how to properly care for water wells and protect groundwater resources. More than 6,900 people in 172 different communities have taken the workshops, which are put on by several provincial departments and […] Read more
Grants preserve grasslands and wildlife habitats
Provincial funding funds conservation easements to protect 13,000 acres from development
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Alberta Land Trust Grant Program is giving more than $7 million to support 24 different projects that will conserve 13,000 acres of private land containing watersheds, grasslands and wildlife habitats. The grants will support projects by the Alberta Conservation Association, Ducks Unlimited Canada, the Legacy Land Trust Society, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the […] Read more
PHOTOS: Endangered ferruginous hawks get a helping hand
Reading Time: < 1 minute It looks big on the platform but the true scale of this nest was more apparent when it was being constructed on the ground. This ferruginous hawk nesting platform was installed last month on a conservation site located in the Milk River Ridge. The Nature Conservancy of Canada and FortisAlberta teamed up on the project […] Read more
The stars (unfortunately) aligned for kochia this summer
This could be the year that triple-resistant kochia is confirmed in Alberta
Reading Time: 4 minutes Farmers never really stood a chance against kochia this year. First, it was a dry year following a dry year, and kochia thrives in dry conditions. Then those dry conditions drew salts in the soil toward the surface — and kochia loves saline soils. And finally, those saline soils delayed emergence in kochia, so any […] Read more
The face of agriculture needs to change
The growing shortage of workers will produce a much more diverse workforce, say experts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The face of Canadian agriculture is changing, and farmers will need to change with it if they hope to survive. That’s a familiar message but when Janice Goldsborough delivers it, she’s not talking about consumers — but farmers themselves. “We have an aging population,” said Goldsborough, who helps small and medium-size businesses with their human […] Read more
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