Category Archives: Agriculture

The family that owns the Burnt River Ranch near Woking has been named the 2025 Farm Family by Saddle Hills County.Cole and Britney Jacob started their operation in 2018. They and their two kids, Stell...

An agriculture conference that's been held annually in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for over a decade is making it's inaugural debut in Alberta on Thursday, Nov. 20. Grande Prairie is set to host the first...

The County of Grande Prairie is accepting nominations for the 2026 Farm Family of the Year award.The award celebrates farming families that have made significant agricultural contributions and represe...

The province says crop yields in every region of Alberta except the Peace are expected to be above the five-year average.The release from the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation says yields in the ...

The National Farmers Union is congratulating postal workers for striking in protest of what it terms in a news release " the government's push to end the rural post office closure moratorium."The NFU ...

The newest crop report from the province says harvest is virtually complete in the Peace Country.The report dated October 14 says 99.7 per cent of the major crops in the Peace had been combined by tha...

With 98 per cent of the crop off in the Peace, harvest is well ahead of schedule. The five-year average is 88.3 per cent, and the 10-year average is 72.7 per cent. According to the latest Alberta Crop...

Farm Credit Canada's newest report on farmland values says land values in Alberta went up 6.6 per cent in the first six months of this year.FCC says the Peace Country and southern Alberta led the grow...

Nearly all the municipalities in the Peace have been deemed designated regions under the federal government's 2025 Livestock Tax Deferral programThe only exception is Clear Hills County, which is cons...

Harvest continues to progress at a steady pace, according to the latest Alberta Crop Report by AFSC. In the report dated September 29, major crops provincially are 89 per cent harvested; a jump from 7...