Daily Network News

More News →

Potatoes

Some researchers have found that the land equivalent ratio is greater with crops grown together than with crops grown individually.
Crops, Features

The science behind intercropping

When plants can share nutrients, they can yield higher together than separately

By
Just as the adoption of no-till agriculture on the Prairies several decades ago was farmer-driven, the current shift to ecological (sometimes called regenerative) agricultural practices is no different, says Dr. Martin Entz of the University of Manitoba. “In this fascinating carbon world, we’re now moving beyond just crop rotation and beyond just grazing management all […] Read more
(Oneilcarlier.albertandp.ca)
General, Livestock

Alberta ag minister Carlier downed in UCP win

By
Alberta’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties as Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party defeated Rachel Notley’s New Democrats in Tuesday night’s provincial election. Oneil Carlier, the provincial NDP government’s minister of agriculture and forestry since May 2015 and deputy government house leader since February 2016, was unseated in his riding of Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland […] Read more
Jim Anderson stands where some cows have gathered at a Frostfree Nosepump water well. When thirst beckons, the cows use their nose to pump their own water. This very sustainable watering system operates year round from heat in the ground and needs no electricity. Read for yourself how it all began including contact information.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Singing Gardener: Meet Jim Anderson from Alberta

Learn about his farm and his cattle nose pump business

By
Previous Singing Gardener columns have often included what’s going on in someone’s garden. Well today, a story begins shortly that comes straight from the farm where we find Jim Anderson of Rimbey, Alberta. It results from my article about dowsing, divining and witching for water. Matter of fact, the subject of witching attracted a number of responses, so more on that […] Read more
Upon introduction, genetically modified corn was seen as a way of reducing weed control and pesticide use, a biological way of controlling some insect pests.
Columns, Crops

The view from the GMO crowd

A world of contradictions, impossible arguments and badly translated chants

By
How many times have I seen slogans that say, “No GMOs?” I even see it in Canadian horticultural seed catalogues. Do we expect the horticultural seed catalogues to sell Roundup Ready canola, soybeans or field corn? It’s just that the gossips and fuddy duddy’s of this world have seen or heard “no GMO’s.” It seems the anti-pesticide and organic food producers have […] Read more
Herbicide drift and self-inflicted crop damage
Columns, Crops

Herbicide drift and self-inflicted crop damage

Herbicides can damage crops in many ways. Learn to prevent loss and deal with damages

By
Every year across the Canadian Prairies there will be many cases of herbicide damage to non-target crops. Some of this will be due to unsuitable weather conditions such as windy weather, wind gusts or inversions. Other causes are municipal roadside weed control leading to spray drift into cropland, on farm herbicide mix-ups, incorrect herbicides such […] Read more
Cooking on a winter-weather shoestring
Farm Life, FarmLife

Cooking on a winter-weather shoestring

First We Eat: Golden Vegetable Latkes

By
The view out my window is relentlessly white. Deep snow has collected across the yard, and the temperature is hovering around -30 C, as it has for the past week. The forecast for the coming week is no better. The roads are rotten. Winter weather means that this week’s cooking must be from the pantry, […] Read more
This traditional Ukrainian heirloom tomato was renamed to Cosmonaut Volkov in honour of a deceased Russian cosmonaut. Ted tells a whole lot more.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Singing Gardener: Fruits of the vine — heirloom tomato and heirloom melon

Don’t forget to enter Ted’s tomato seed draws

By
If you’ve ever attended live theatre, you may have experienced a curtain raiser. It’s a short, dramatic piece performed before the main play or event of the evening. That’s not to say there’s no such thing as live theatre in the afternoon as there certainly is. Now just imagine yours truly standing at the mike […] Read more
When you sell straw or hay off your farm, have you ever considered the fate of the nutrients contained in the hay or straw?
Columns, Crops

Selling nutrients: the last straw

Practical Research: How to degrade productive cropland by selling the nutrients after the harvest season

By
Sandy soil areas are not uncommon on the Canadian Prairies, especially west and north of Edmonton, my home area. It made me wince when I saw endless lines of wheat straw bales on countless sandy fields this fall. Technically speaking, straw should never be sold on any kind of cropland unless there is a very […] Read more
A new fungicide from Syngenta is designed to help control fusarium in cereals and sclerotinia in canola.
Crops, Features

New protection products coming from Syngenta

New fungicides and a plant growth regulator in the queue for registration

By
Registration of a new active ingredient is making it possible for Syngenta Canada to bring several fungicide products to the market with promise of improved disease control in wheat and canola, along with a wide range of other field and horticultural crops. Adepidyn (which is the trade name for pydiflumetofen) is viewed as one of […] Read more

AgCanadaTV

AgCanada TV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for April 17, 2026

Sponsored by:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →