Originally published July 25, 2025, on Alberta Farmer by Geralyn Wichers. Canadian farmers’ overall new crop outlook has improved since the beginning of the year, says Farm Credit Canada. “Since last January’s outlook, crop margins have improved, though for most producers they remain close to breakeven levels,” wrote FCC senior economist Justin Shepherd on Wednesday.
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Originally published July 8, 2025, on RealAgriculture by RealAgriculture News Team. A British Columbia-based agtech company has acquired a California-based soil genomics testing company known as the “23andMe” for soil DNA analysis. Miraterra says it has purchased Trace Genomics’ intellectual property, in-market products, and the company’s analytical lab in Ames, Iowa. Founded in the Bay
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Originally published July 14, 2025, in Agri-News by the Government of Alberta. The Government of Alberta has enacted legislative changes through Bill 44, amending the Agricultural Operation Practices Act (AOPA) and 2 of its associated regulations. These updates, which came into effect on June 23, 2025, aim to reduce regulatory barriers, encourage innovation, and promote environmentally responsible practices
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Originally published on Keep it Clean. Ergot is a fungal disease that can infect wheat, barley, oats, durum, rye and canary seed, as well as grassy weeds in your fields. Ergot bodies contain harmful alkaloids and should not be consumed by humans or fed to animals. Implementing proactive management strategies is crucial to minimize the
Originally published July 22, 2025, on New Hope Network by Mark Hamstra. As the U.S. continues to negotiate and alter complicated global trade agreements the threat of new and changing tariffs lingers for many imported products. The potential risk of increased costs for U.S.-based companies in the organic industry remains elevated. In an effort to
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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
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
