Category Archives: Agriculture

This is BeGrainSafe Week, a time when the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association says it wants to raise awareness about grain safety.A release from the organization says that 27 people died on Canad...

Northwestern Polytechnic is celebrating 50 years of its Animal Health Technology Program. Launched in 1974 at its Fairview Campus, this in-demand program has trained over 1,000 "highly sought-after ve...

The August 6 crop report form AFSC says that 54.2 per cent of all crops in the Peace were rated in good to excellent condition as of that date.That is up a bit from 54 per cent in the July 30 report.T...

United Farmers of Alberta will see a leadership change at the end of this year.The company says in a release that current president and CEO Scott Bolton will retire on December 31.He will be replaced ...

Dawson Creek is busy this week.The Dawson Creek Exhibition and Stampede got underway today (Wednesday, August 7) and will continue through Sunday.There is a long list of agriculture events happening a...

The Government of Alberta is expanding eligibility for the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation's (AFSC) Next Generation (Next Gen) Loan program.The move comes in an effort to address the steep ...

Crop conditions as of July 23, were released on Friday by AGI and the provincial government. The major heatwave that settled over the entire province for a prolonged period did affect crops... for the...

A construction worker has died following an accident just east of Coaldale.Details on what exactly happened are sparse, but it occurred at the construction site of the McCain Foods expansion on Wednes...

The Alberta government says it is introducing something it thinks will help with problem wildlife. This will see the formation of an approved network of wildlife management responders. They would answ...

The latest Alberta Crop Report from AFSC on July 9, says that all major provincial crops conditions were above average for the week of July 2-8.At the time of the report, the first blast of hot weathe...