Reading Time: < 1 minute Rural Albertans have fewer neighbours than they did six years ago. And if you’re wondering where they went, you might want to check out Airdrie and Cochrane as well as the province’s big cities. That’s — sort of — the upshot from recently released census data. Rural Canada actually gained nearly 27,000 new residents from […] Read more
Rural population inches up in latest census, but not in Alberta
Schoepp: Hunger doesn’t just happen to people in far-away places
You can see telltale signs in our grocery stores and the streets of cities and towns
Reading Time: 3 minutes While recently spending several months travelling in and out of a major city, I often ran out of time to eat in the evenings and whenever I shopped, it was late at night. Buying groceries was something I could do on the way back to the farm, without the worry of crowds or traffic. On […] Read more
Gasoline, diesel prices set to continue rising
MarketsFarm — The steady rise in crude oil prices is based on three factors, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service at Lakewood, N.J. One of those factors is the amount of crude oil produced by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with some […] Read more
Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline
Updated — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will ease entry for fully vaccinated international travelers starting Feb. 28 as COVID-19 cases decline, allowing a rapid antigen test for travelers instead of a molecular one, officials said Tuesday. Antigen tests are cheaper than a molecular test and can provide results within minutes. The new measures, which […] Read more
Farm receipts higher despite drought
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is predicting farm cash receipts will rise in Alberta this year — but not by much. FCC said that 2021 was “a good year” for Canadian farmers and it estimates the final tally for farm cash receipts will be up by 10 per cent (to $79.2 billion). In Alberta, they will […] Read more
Making it real: Get the lowdown on climate on your farm
Stefan Kienzle has made decades’ worth of very detailed, very local weather data easily accessible
Reading Time: 6 minutes More growing days. Fewer days of frost. And more extreme weather: both drought-inducing heat waves and bitterly cold stretches. That’s the reality of climate change but are those changes happening on your farm? Now you can find out thanks to an easy-to-use website that details precipitation, temperature and growing days on virtually any chunk of […] Read more
Farmers are better able to cope with dry times, say veteran producers
Reducing moisture loss through practices such as no till and rotational grazing are major advances
Reading Time: 3 minutes A series of droughts in the ’80s was a defining event for a generation of Alberta farmers. But two producers who farmed through those times have a hopeful message: Better technology and management practices have put farmers in a much better position to handle extreme weather. “In the mid-’80s — 1982 through 1985 — we […] Read more
Ford to suspend or cut plants’ output on chip shortage
San Francisco | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. plans to suspend or cut production at eight of its factories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico throughout next week because of chip supply constraints, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. The changes come a day after the Detroit automaker warned a chip shortage would lead to […] Read more
Greek farmers stage tractor protest against soaring energy costs
Larissa | Reuters — Farmers in central Greece on Friday protested with hundreds of tractors against soaring energy costs, dismissing government support measures as inadequate and demanding more help to cope with rising prices. The farmers parked tractors on a national highway near the town of Larissa in central Greece, where they faced off with […] Read more
PHOTOS: Drill deep into the weather history of your farm
Reading Time: < 1 minute Take a tour of a website that has decades’ worth of weather data for the whole province, including your farm or ranch.
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