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May. 29, 2024 at 11:52 am CDT

May. 28, 2024 at 1:19 pm CDT

John Greig reports from the World Seed Congress, day two, where gene editing and seed stealing were top of mind.

Dec. 1, 2023 at 11:40 am CST

Alberta’s beautiful landscape is dotted with a lot of oil and gas wells. A current list of them from the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) runs to more than 16,000 pages, and there’s an estimated 620,000 of them in total. They’re collectively a major contributor to Alberta’s economy, and the energy […]

By Jeff Melchior

Jul. 24, 2023 at 2:18 pm CDT

In many cattle ranchers’ minds, there’s no such thing as a good gopher. However, custom grazier Steven Kenyon, who practises regenerative agriculture on his Alberta operation, sees them as neither friend nor foe. “They’re part of the system,” he said in an interview during a pasture tour organized by the […]

May. 12, 2023 at 9:38 am CDT

The Ontario government has made a series of policies over the past year that will alter the trajectory of development. By opening the Greenbelt and other farmland, reclassifying wetlands, reducing density targets and allowing municipalities to expand beyond established urban limits, Doug Ford’s government says it aims to encourage speedy […]

By Matt McIntosh