Insights and Stories on Alberta

ICE weekly outlook: Choppy canola trade likely

Jul. 17, 2019 at 8:28 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market tested major chart support during the week ended Wednesday, but could be due for some choppy activity and eventual strength over the next few weeks, depending on what happens with the weather and in U.S. corn and soybean markets. The canola crop looks […]

Consultations begin online for replacing Alberta’s Bill 6

Jul. 13, 2019 at 4:44 am CDT

By GFM Staff

Alberta to lengthen public leases for ‘exemplary’ ranching

Jul. 12, 2019 at 9:36 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Two Alberta sheep flocks quarantined for scrapie

Jul. 11, 2019 at 5:07 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Alberta extends deadline again for farm trucker training

Jul. 4, 2019 at 9:36 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Rookie U.S. House Democrats call for COOL revival

Jun. 29, 2019 at 1:16 am CDT

Several new members of the U.S. House of Representatives who’ve pressed for stronger language on labour and environmental standards in the revised North American free trade deal now also want it to include country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat. A letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, dated Tuesday and signed […]

By GFM Staff

Rain gives farmers relief, for now, from three-year drought

Jun. 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — With drought turning Chad Ross’s pastures brown, the southeastern Saskatchewan rancher sent 140 head of cattle to slaughter earlier than usual this spring, as the Prairies’ three-year drought made them too expensive to feed. The ranch and feedlot near Estevan has lost money two straight years. […]

By Rod Nickel

USDA investigates unapproved GMO wheat in Washington state

Jun. 8, 2019 at 9:57 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state. There was no evidence the wheat had entered the food supply, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said in a […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Canada’s realized net farm income way down in 2018

May. 28, 2019 at 7:12 pm CDT

Stagnant farm cash receipts against significant increases in feed, fuel and interest costs have led to Canada’s biggest decline in realized net farm income in over a decade. That’s according to Statistics Canada, which on Tuesday released full-year farm income data for 2018, pegging realized net farm income for the […]

By GFM Staff

Prairie dryness concerns to persist

May. 24, 2019 at 7:50 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Large areas of Western Canada remain on the dry side, with little moisture in the immediate forecasts. And while it’s still early in the growing season, the interplay of conflicting patterns from the south and north will determine whether the dry areas receive timely precipitation during the growing […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin