Originally published July 4, 2025, in RealAgriculture by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team. Whether it’s chickpeas, fabas, lentils, or peas, proper nodulation is key to ensuring a healthy, nitrogen-fixing pulse crop, and it all starts early in the season. Achieving that happens pre-seeding, with proper inoculation. But what happens if nodules don’t form? In this episode of […]
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Originally published July 26, 2025, in RealAgriculture by RealAgriculture News Team. Farm Credit Canada (FCC) has announced updates to its FCC Transition Loan to facilitate the transfer of farm business assets between both buyers and sellers. The new terms allow disbursements to the seller over a period that extends to 10 years. The loan is
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Originally published July 8, 2025, in Alberta Farmer Express by Jeff Melchior. Post-secondary ag students with a northern Alberta school have been using a computerized simulator to learn how to properly run tractors and combines. Both students and staff at Northwestern Polytechnic in Fairview are praising the Tenstar Simulator for its capacity to safely build
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Originally published July 8, 2025, in Alberta Farmer Express by Greg Price. Farming Smarter near Lethbridge got a boost to its research equipment, thanks to the Alberta government’s increase in capital funding for research associations. Agriculture minister RJ Sigurdson was on hand on at Farming Smarter’s two-day field school to announce a one-time capital grant
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Originally published on the Organic Farming Research Foundation site. Written by Rebecca Champagne, PhD, OFRF Conservation Scientist. Each year, as part of our Cooperative Agreement with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) publishes a research summary and holds webinars on various organic topics to help build institutional knowledge of NRCS
Originally published June 29, 2025 by Organic Science Cluster 4. Watch Improving the Resilience of Organic Greenhouse Agroecosystems, a film in Organic Science Cluster 4’s documentary series, Captured on Film: Organic Science in the Making! Dr. Martine Dorais is helping to support year-round organic food production in our import-reliant Canadian climate. She and her team are looking at
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Originally published July 16, 2025, in Manitoba Cooperator by Jeff Melchior. Organic producers have only a few weeks left to comment on proposed changes to Canada’s organic standards. Drafts of the proposed update and updated permitted substances list have circulated since spring. The Canadian General Standards Board launched a 60-day consultation period on the update
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