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Alberta Crop Report: Conditions improve

Jun. 30, 2025 at 10:52 am CDT

Crop conditions improved in Alberta during the week ended June 24, but they are still behind historical averages.

US Supreme Court seeks Justice Department views on Bayer Roundup appeal

Jun. 30, 2025 at 10:03 am CDT

By Diana Novak Jones Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attend a meeting with G7 leaders and guests, at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025.

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled trade talks with US

Jun. 30, 2025 at 9:44 am CDT

By Reuters

Woman worker portrait in the milking parlour of a dairy farm.

Agriculture, food should tie labour needs to federal priorities, panel says

Jun. 27, 2025 at 3:23 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

A group photo of the Alberta and Saskatchewan caucuses.

Alberta and Saskatchewan call for stop to federal interference in provincial resources

Jun. 27, 2025 at 10:55 am CDT

By Greg Price

man holding winter wheat plants in a green field crop

Build your farm with these entrepreneurial skills

Jun. 27, 2025 at 9:43 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – “Farming is an important, low-margin business that has got to be fine-tuned like a guitar to make beautiful music.” This insight comes from Kim McConnell, someone who knows about business success — and how to make that beautiful music. After a long career in the agriculture industry, […]

By Angela Lovell

Alberta Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation RJ Sigurdson does the ceremonial fire up of Farming Smarter’s new tractor it was able to purchase with the help of the province’s one-time capital grant of $3.2 million to Alberta’s 12 applied research associations. The boost to Farming Smarter’s equipment for potato research helps with the association’s operating costs as a non-profit association.

Farming Smarter receives financial boost from Alberta government for potato research

Jun. 26, 2025 at 1:23 pm CDT

Farming Smarter near Lethbridge got a boost to its research equipment, thanks to the Alberta government’s increase in funding for research associations.

By Greg Price

Ontario ag-gag appeal concludes, court ruling pending

Jun. 26, 2025 at 11:00 am CDT

Animal rights advocates challenge the constitutionality of Ontario’s Security from Trespass Act, arguing it stifles undercover exposés and infringes on Charter freedoms; government defends the law as targeting trespass, not speech.

By Diana Martin

Argentine oilseed sector meets China in bid to unlock soymeal exports

Jun. 26, 2025 at 10:18 am CDT

Argentina's oilseed export chamber has met with Chinese officials and discussed at length the possibility of opening up soymeal exports for the first time.

By Reuters