Tag Archives: Agriculture

CALGARY - Workers are to return Monday to a beef processing plant south of Calgary that was closed for two weeks because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Cargill says its High River facility will restart ...

CALGARY - The rapid spread of COVID-19 at Canada's meat-packing plants isn't a surprise, say union and health officials. Fabian Murphy, president of the Agriculture Union, which represents federal mea...

OTTAWA - Canadian farmers and food processors will get $50 million in federal funding to ensure temporary foreign workers comply with mandatory COVID-19 quarantine. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude B...

Climate change could open a whole different area in Canada to farming, says newly published research. But Evan Fraser of the University of Guelph, a co-author of the international study, warns that si...

TABER, AB - It was a special day in Taber on Friday as officials held a sod turning for the Grasslands Taber Cooperative's (GLTC) Premium Park project.The plan marks the development of what's describe...

Birch Hills County has joined the County of Grande Prairie and Saddle Hills County in declaring an agriculture disaster.In a release, they say some farmers still have up to 50 percent of this year's c...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen offered some brief comments Thursday while in Lethbridge, on the province's decision to review regulations that relax the requirements f...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A nearly $400,000 grant from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership will allow researchers at Lethbridge College to embark upon a four-year study to determine how watering and irrigati...

OTTAWA - China's move to stop buying several Canadian agricultural products has punished some farmers, and now industry leaders are worrying about the prospect of a broad...

Albertans are being invited to participate in an online survey to help shape the future of farm workplace legislation.According to government officials, farms and ranches are said to operate different...