Farm Management Canada has opened nominations for an award that was established over twenty years ago to honour those that have made an extraordinary contribution to developing and promoting new and positive change in agricultural business management practices and expertise in Canada. Individuals or groups can be nominated for the 2023 Wilson Loree Award, if... Read More
Category: Western Canada
The governments of New Zealand and Canada are both claiming victory in a dispute settlement ruling on the way Canada administers dairy market access under the CPTPP trade deal. The dispute panel sided with New Zealand on two of the country's main complaints, agreeing that Canada's pooling system for allocating dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs)... Read More
We know that agriculture plays an important role in both greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration; however Dr. Joy Agnew of Olds College of Agriculture and Technology says we are missing half the picture when it comes to measuring agriculture's overall carbon footprint. "There's the emissions side, which everyone seems to be talking about and... Read More
Now is the time for the beef markets to take a bit of a breather, as the retail buying is done headed into the Labour Day long weekend, and we wait for things to really start to pick up after September for Q4. Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange explains in this episode of... Read More
Väderstad has announced the discontinuation of the Concord brand beginning with the 2024 model year. Instead, a selection of its products and design elements will be incorporated into the Väderstad air seeder lineup in the near future. In May 2021, Väderstad acquired AGCO-Amity JV, which included the Concord, Wil-Rich and Wishek brands. Since the acquisition,... Read More
There are many different approaches to harvesting edible beans, from typical combine setups used for other crops to harvesters designed specifically for beans. Specialized bean combines have historically been pull-type designs, but a new machine harvesting beans on a farm in southern Manitoba is believed to be the first factory-built self-propelled bean combine in Canada.... Read More
Goooooood day, and welcome to this episode of Wheat Pete's Word! On this episode of The Word, host Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson asks about BIG soybeans, bad weeds, and of course, seeing as it's the end of August — it's agronomy, agronomy, agronomy. Have a question you’d like Wheat Pete to address or some field... Read More
Statistics Canada (StatsCan) released the model-based principal field crop estimates report earlier this week. It is no real surprise to anyone that there were some pretty big year-over-year production cuts across a lot of commodities. Brian Comeault of Farmers Business Network (FBN), joined RealAg Radio host Lyndsey Smith to discuss the latest report, and dig... Read More
If you are at Farm Progress Show this week, you are likely seeing crowds gathered around a very strange looking machine. Terrakamp's Next Generation Agriculture Technology machine, or NEXAT, was developed in Europe, and is now being showcased around the world so farmers can see the machine for themselves in person. The "all-in-one system tractor"... Read More
Rob Graf, who is well-known in Western Canada for decades of experience breeding wheat in both the private and public sector, has joined the management team for Alberta-based seed company SeedNet. Graf, who retired from a nearly 24 year career with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 2022, was a principal research scientist in winter wheat... Read More