Insights and Stories on Alberta

Wet spring hampers Prairie fertilizer timetable

Mar. 9, 2017 at 2:21 pm CST

CNS Canada — This week’s dump of snow in eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba will likely push back fieldwork and fertilizer applications on a lot of farms, according to one crop watcher. Keystone Agricultural Producers president Dan Mazier, speaking from a conference in the U.S., said only about 50 per […]

Proposed labour rules for Alberta farms go public

Mar. 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm CST

By Staff

Five uses for provincial machinery rate guides

Feb. 28, 2017 at 9:26 am CST

By Dilia Narduzzi

A+W books sales growth despite Prairie ‘challenges’

Feb. 14, 2017 at 7:08 pm CST

By Staff

Canada reintroduces bison to Banff National Park

Feb. 6, 2017 at 6:24 pm CST

By Nia Williams

Bovine TB probe’s focus turns to infected herd

Feb. 3, 2017 at 6:37 pm CST

With no new cases of bovine tuberculosis discovered on the Prairies since mid-November, federal officials are now turning their focus to how the disease got into half a dozen cattle in the region last fall. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday it has finished TB-screening and depopulating all mature […]

By Staff

P+H to expand Alberta ag retail reach

Jan. 19, 2017 at 8:06 pm CST

Grain company Parrish and Heimbecker plans to expand its crop input retail space into east-central Alberta by buying four store sites in a federally-mandated sale. The privately-held Winnipeg firm on Monday announced it has reached an agreement with Agrium’s retail arm, Crop Production Services, to buy the sites at Sedgewick, […]

By Staff

Quarantines added in bovine TB probe

Dec. 22, 2016 at 4:18 am CST

Federal inspectors’ search for animals exposed to one of six Alberta cattle confirmed with bovine tuberculosis (TB) has led them to quarantine more farm sites for testing. As of Wednesday, “approximately 50” farm sites, mostly in southeastern Alberta with “approximately five” in southwestern Saskatchewan, are under quarantine and movement controls, […]

By Staff

Six quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Dec. 16, 2016 at 5:52 pm CST

Six premises deemed to be “low-risk” have been released from federal quarantine as officials continue their hunt for Alberta and Saskatchewan cattle exposed to bovine tuberculosis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday reported it had lifted movement controls on six premises where “appropriate testing” has been completed on cattle […]

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Quarantined Alberta ranches to get AgriRecovery

Nov. 30, 2016 at 2:51 pm CST

Ranchers in southeastern Alberta having to feed and maintain quarantined cattle they can’t move or sell can expect a federal/provincial AgriRecovery plan to help cover those costs in the next few days. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his Alberta counterpart Oneil Carlier on Wednesday announced producers faced with “extraordinary […]

By Staff