Insights and Stories on Forages

AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture and grassland risks

Aug. 26, 2022 at 3:48 pm CDT

Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, discusses some of the risks to forage growth, using insects to manage weeds in pastures, and training cattle to eat spurge.

Learning from McCain’s regenerative farming practices

Jun. 24, 2022 at 10:11 am CDT

By Liam O’Connor

P.E.I. seed potato producers backed for ‘soil-building’

May. 20, 2022 at 10:23 pm CDT

By Liam O’Connor

German seed company buys Prairie forage seed firm

May. 5, 2022 at 8:14 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Hay-starved Prairies fertile ground for online scammers

Oct. 14, 2021 at 7:35 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

CFA’s Hay West program up and running

Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:25 pm CDT

A revival of the “Hay West” initiative, aimed at shipping feed from Eastern Canada to supplement drought-dented supplies in the West, has gone live. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture on Friday announced its Hay West 2021 initiative is “now operational and seeking applicants to both receive and supply hay.” Applicants […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario MDS volunteers already moving hay west

Sep. 14, 2021 at 7:28 pm CDT

It’s in the spirit of co-operation in difficult times that a group of Ontario farmers have launched a hay donation program to assist their Saskatchewan counterparts. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada, a volunteer organization that provides assistance in the aftermath of disasters in Canada and the U.S., is organizing the […]

By Piper Whelan

Plans afoot to move hay from East to drought-hit West

Aug. 19, 2021 at 7:59 pm CDT

Farm groups are spearheading new plans to get livestock feed from Eastern Canada to drought-damaged regions of the western provinces and northwestern Ontario. Details are still pending, but the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) announced Aug. 12 it has started work on a “Hay West” initiative to get surplus hay […]

By Dave Bedard

John Deere introduces new W200 Series M and R Windrowers

Aug. 19, 2021 at 4:31 pm CDT

A new suite of John Deere W200 Series Self-Propelled Windrowers aim to help farmers harvest their crop quickly and efficiently. The new W235R and W260R windrowers provide: – R Windrowers offer 10 per cent wider windrows than previous models. – 24-mph transport speed that reduces time spent moving between fields. […]

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Take care in your livestock feed sources this season

Aug. 6, 2021 at 10:28 am CDT

Cattle producers are urged to get greenfeed and straw tested for potentially deadly nitrates this year. “Basically, we know there’s going to be nitrates in some of the feed. Especially cereal,” said Jo-Lene Gardiner, who works with the Border Agriculture Stewardship Association and is a cattle farmer in the Clearwater […]

By Geralyn Wichers