Cattle on John Ross's 60,000 acre ranch benefit from a new water well and storage tank located away from the Milk River. Multisar paid for well drilling and materials to protect species habitat along the Milk River. With water nearby, cattle now graze areas of the ranch that they didn't use before. The grazing also creates habitat for endangered burrowing owls, which do not thrive in thick grass.

Conservation groups enter grazing lease debate

Five Alberta groups ask for halt of proposed project to convert native grasslands to irrigation

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Municipal District of Taber in southern Alberta remains at a political crossroads, weighing the interests of generating revenue for public services with conserving native grasslands.

Molnar farms

Alberta farm lives up to corn capital reputation

Adding sweet corn to his crop rotation 20 years ago turned out to be a tasty decision for this vegetable grower

Reading Time: 4 minutes A Farm to Table Tour featured Molnar Farms, which grows a large variety of market fruits and vegetables including corn, with Taber being known as the Corn Capital of Canada.


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Police help round up Alberta ostriches on lam

Several wander into Taber, become social media stars

Most of a flock of farmed ostriches that got free of their pen near the southern Alberta town of Taber have been rounded up, but not before grabbing their proverbial 15 minutes’ fame. Taber-Vauxhall RCMP said in a release Thursday afternoon that they began receiving reports shortly before 8 a.m. that day of ostriches on […] Read more