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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.

Ontario ag-gag appeal concludes, court ruling pending

Jun. 26, 2025 at 11:00 am CDT

By Diana Martin

Argentine oilseed sector meets China in bid to unlock soymeal exports

Jun. 26, 2025 at 10:18 am CDT

By Reuters

New Farm Credit Canada loan option aims to ease farm ownership transfers

Jun. 26, 2025 at 10:01 am CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Mann brothers settle differences

Jun. 25, 2025 at 5:08 pm CDT

By Sean Pratt

child's hands hold a cup of Cheerios cereal.

General Mills forecasts weak annual profit as economic uncertainty weighs

Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:41 am CDT

General Mills forecasted annual profit below expectations on Wednesday, as weak demand for its refrigerated baked goods and snacks in the U.S. in a tariff-driven, uncertain macroeconomic background weighed on the Pillsbury owner.

By Neil J. Kanatt Reuters

USDA notes shifts in Mexican corn

Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm CDT

Corn production in Mexico is projected to increase 6.5 per cent in 2025/26, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Mexico City reported. Meanwhile, the country’s imports are expected to dip 1.4 per cent.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Bill to protect supply management passes, exporters disappointed

Jun. 24, 2025 at 2:32 pm CDT

Exporters feel Bill C-202 undermines the country's commitment to rules-based international trading and sends the wrong message to trading partners.

By Karen Briere

Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025.

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.

By Reuters Rodrigo Gutierrez

Male arm count hundred dollar bills closeup.

Canada’s annual inflation unchanged at 1.7 per cent in May, core measures slightly ease

Jun. 24, 2025 at 9:56 am CDT

Canada’s annual inflation rate in May was unchanged from the previous month at 1.7 per cent as a drop in gasoline costs continued to keep the overall index stable. Prices of shelter, food and transportation also cooled.

By Promit Mukherjee Reuters