Videos

Russ Henderson talks about MacDon’s new FD2 Plus FlexDraper combine header on the show grounds of Ag in Motion 2025 in Langham, Saskatchewan.

This week’s ‘In Case You Missed’ comes to you from Agriculture in Motion, held between July 15 and 17 in Langham, Saskatchewan. See all of our Ag in Motion coverage at the Western Producer. Canada’s chief trade commissioner, Sask. Premier talk trade at AIM Canada’s chief trade commissioner visited the Ag in Motion site on […] Read more

  Guelph researchers creating a more robust, transgenic canola Crop breeders from the University of Guelph are well on their way to creating a better yielding, more stress-tolerant canola variety. Early results are showing an increased seed yield of 35 per cent per plant. The researchers used gene editing to remove some canola genes and […] Read more

It can feel like the lottery when it comes to which fields get rain and which ones don’t when clouds roll in. But what does that mean for fertilizers that need soil moisture to get nutrients moving into plants? Marla Riekman, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, shares what she’s hearing from growers in southern […] Read more

As the Ag in Motion farm show is set to kick off on July 15, Scott Garvey for Grainews takes a look at how farm shows have evolved on the prairies and speaks to show director Rob O’Connor about what it takes to put on a modern day, major farm show.

Update No. 8, July 8, 2025 (below): Bruce visits a canola and soybean field and both crops are progressing nicely – the canola is bolting and flowering and the soybeans are in the V4 to V7 stage. A little bit of rain reportedly fell in the area which helped these two fields develop, but more […] Read more

Tax walk-back avoids trade negotiation breakdown Canada scrapped its digital services tax on Monday after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened to end trade negotiations. In a social media post on Friday, Trump had called the tax a “blatant attack” and suggested he’d impose new tariffs. Negotiations resumed after the Carney government dropped the tax, which […] Read more

  Bill C-202 passes in the Senate A bill to protect supply management sailed through the Senate late last week to the consternation of farm and exporter groups. Bill C-202 amends the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act to make supply management untouchable in future trade talks. The Canadian agri-food trade alliance said […] Read more

Global agriculture leaders host forum as G7 leaders meet As G7 leaders arrive in Kananaskis, Alberta, agriculture leaders from around the world held their own forum to talk food security. The event was hosted in Olds, Alberta, by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. Institute director Manuel Otero told delegates that meeting the world’s […] Read more

Sclerotinia in canola can be a serious yield robber if not quickly identified and protective measures aren’t taken. Here, Chris Manchur with the Canola Council of Canada talks about how to spot sclerotinia in a canola field and when to apply a fungicide to help suppress the infection.