Insights and Stories of Geralyn Wichers

Heat waves are seen on an unusually warm September day as a farmer unloads his combine hopper into a waiting wagon as he harvests a soybean field in western Iowa in rural Woodbury County, Monday, September 29, 2025.

U.S. agricultural trade in a widening deficit, study shows

Oct. 10, 2025 at 3:22 pm CDT

U.S. agricultural imports now exceed exports and the deficit is expected to worsen, according to a study from the University of Illinois.

Immigrant farmworker picking produce in the field.

Thirty-six employers banned from Temporary Foreign Worker program, federal agency says

Oct. 7, 2025 at 2:33 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

cattle and a barbed wire fence at sunset

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures spike, hogs mixed

Oct. 6, 2025 at 4:18 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Close up of the fender and back wheel of a blue tractor in a row of tractors.

Association of Equipment Manufacturers sets up lobby in Ottawa

Oct. 3, 2025 at 11:40 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Faster growth for farmland values in first half of 2025 says FCC

Oct. 2, 2025 at 12:19 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Canned fish factory. Food industry. Sardines in red tomato sauce in tinned cans at food factory. Food processing production line. Food manufacturing industry. Many can of sardines on a conveyor belt.

Food and beverage makers’ sales predicted to slide on trade tensions: FCC

Sep. 29, 2025 at 2:35 pm CDT

Canadian food and beverage makers have begun to feel the pinch of trade tensions with the U.S. according to a new forcast by Farm Credit Canada, which downgraded sales growth predictions from the start of the year.

By Geralyn Wichers

Photo by Sonia Third
A seeder getting ready to go to work in a Rowland Farms field in southern Alberta.

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Sep. 26, 2025 at 3:54 pm CDT

The National Farmers Union is pushing back against changes to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act that would narrow the scope of farmers’ right to save seed or propagate crops from cuttings and tubers.

By Geralyn Wichers

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Sep. 23, 2025 at 3:23 pm CDT

Chicago lean hog futures rallied on Tuesday ahead of the USDA’s Hogs and Pigs report, due on Thursday. “The report may show a slight increase in total hog population, but analysts are speculating over what other stats may show and mean for futures prices,” the Wall Street Journal reported. The […]

By Geralyn Wichers

barley plant close up. taken at AAFC plots at AIM on July 15, 2025. Photo: Janelle Rudolph

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

Sep. 23, 2025 at 2:35 pm CDT

A group of Prairie crop associations have pledged $1.8 million to continue barley variety development at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre.

By Geralyn Wichers