Ag News

MD of Greenview council declared an Agricultural Disaster at their council meeting this week. Council made this declaration to address and bring attention to the consequential drought conditions that have significantly impacted Agricultural Producers within multiple areas

July 28, 2021 – In a special council meeting today, the MD of Fairview elected to declare an Agricultural Disaster.  The decision came after a report courtesy of Fred Sawchuk, the Director of Parks & Agriculture for

If you live in the Fairview area and use the Cummings Lake Trail system, you might have seen some work happening near the Grant Notley memorial bench in recent weeks. The Fairview Pollinator Garden is in the

On our Ag Show, we talked to Bob Lowe, the President of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. The Cattlemen’s Association is one of the groups that make up the Canadian Beef Advisors. The Beef Advisors recently announced their

On our Ag Show this week, we talked to Lynn Jacobson, the President of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture. We talked to him about some of the work the Federation does, how different parts of the Agriculture

Farmers in the Peace Country have a chance to convert some of their cropland into grass and pasture through a program with Ducks Unlimited. Craig Bishop, regional forages lead for the Prairies with Ducks Unlimited, says they’ll

On our ag show today, we talked to Greg Sears who is one of the directors with the Alberta Wheat Commission and is also a farmer in the Sexsmith area. We talked about some of the research

This week is Canadian Ag Safety Week and we had a chance to talk to the Executive Director of AgSafe Alberta, Jody Wacowich. We talked about what AgSafe Alberta does to help farmers and what resources they

On our Ag show today, we talked with the chairperson of the Alberta Cattle Feeders’ Association, Greg Schmidt. They’re a group that represents feedlots in the province. We talked about how the pandemic lead to a backlog

Our agriculture discussion today is with David Webb, the Marketing and Communications manager with the Egg Farmers of Alberta. Some of the topics we discussed include how the market for eggs has been shifted by the pandemic

In our Agriculture Discussion today, we talk with Garth Patterson, the Executive Director of the Western Grains Research Foundation. The WGRF recently provided a grant of $300,000 to the Mackenzie Applied Research Association for the construction of

Today we spoke to the chairperson for Alberta Barley, Tara Sawyer. Some of the topics discussed include some of the research programs that they’re involved in, how the demand for barley has changed over the past year,

We had a chance this week to talk to the chairperson for the Alberta Beef Producers, Kelly Smith-Fraser. Some of the topics we covered include some of the different challenges faced by the cattle industry, the effects