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Empowering Rural Communities: Fifth Annual Community Fund by Do More Agriculture and FCC

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Saskatoon, January 18th 2024 – Do More Agriculture is excited to announce the fifth year of its Community Fund, proudly presented by Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The Fund offers free mental health education to rural communities throughout Canada. The goal is to empower these communities with the necessary tools to support themselves and others. Applications

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Sask. canola, flax groups vote to merge

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Originally published January 11, 2024 on Alberta Farmer Express By Geralyn Wichers SaskCanola and SaskFlax have been sharing offices, admin for about a year Saskatchewan flax and canola growers approved plans to amalgamate their organizations in a Jan. 9 vote. Producer support for the merge of SaskCanola and SaskFlax was “overwhelming,” the groups said in

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‘Waste Wool’ is a Burden for Farmers. What if it Could be a Solution Instead?

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Originally published November 6, 2023 on Farm.Food.Life By Lena Beck Sheep farmers across the US and Canada often end up burning, burying or stockpiling wool. Entrepreneurs, researchers and community groups are working to flip the script by transforming discarded wool into a different kind of fertilizer. When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia

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Beef marks GHG drop: report

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Originally published January 22, 2024 on Alberta Farmer Express By Jeff Melchior Assessment reveals industry has reduced emissions by 15 per cent Producing a kilogram of boneless beef cuts today involves 15 per cent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than in 2014, according to the recently released National Beef Sustainability Assessment (NBSA) and Strategy report. “It’s exciting to see the 15 per cent reduction in

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How diversity in plant species can increase yield

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Co-author Peggy Schultz of the University of Kansas collects data on plots with undergraduate workers. Photo: KU Marketing Originally published January 19, 2024 on OrganicBiz University of Kansas – A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops rather than just

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Time, costs limit rotational grazing adoption

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Originally published January 18, 2024 on Western Producer By Catherine Brown There are many terms related to the practice, which a researcher says should be standardized to improve consistency Cost and lack of knowledge are two of the biggest barriers to rotational grazing, according to preliminary data studied by Brook McWherter, a natural resource scientist

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Drylanders film depicted homesteaders’ prairie gamble

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Originally published January 18, 2024 on Western Producer By Doug Ferguson How did a pioneer family with no farming experience find the courage to gamble everything on an uncertain new life as homesteaders in Western Canada? “I tried to look cheerful when we got off the train, and when he bought the wagon,” said Liza

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Company seeks stinkweed acres in the U.S.

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Originally published January 16, 2023 on Alberta Farmer Express By Sean Pratt Kevin Cook wants farmers to grow more weeds. He is the vice-president of breeding at CoverCress Inc., a company that has successfully converted stinkweed, also known as pennycress, into a viable winter oilseed cover crop. The initial target market will be the central

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‘Combuggy’ used as mobile storage

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An 8820 John Deere combine blended with a Brent grain cart was a winter project on the Belan farm in southern Ontario. | Mike Belan photo Originally published January 11, 2024 on Western Producer By Scott Garvey An 8820 combine modified into a grain cart has the benefit of hydrostatic transmission and rear-wheel assist Some

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