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Jordan and Jennifer Lindgren, OYF Saskatchewan regional finalists with family-run large grain farming operation.

Canada’s OYF: Saskatchewan nominees

Saskatchewan farmers Jordan and Jennifer Lindgren make family a priority

By Geoff Geddes November 16, 2018

While some industries are dominated by a few large companies, agriculture in Canada is still planted firmly on the family farm. Nowhere is that more evident than at the home of Jordan and Jennifer Lindgren, the 2018 winners of the Saskatchewan Outstanding Young Farmer (OYF) Award. On their 11,500-acre grain and oilseed farm near Norquay […] Read more

Tyler MacNaughton and Sacha Bentall, OYF B.C. regional finalists, producing pasture-to-plate livestock.

Livestock, News

Canada’s OYF: British Columbia nominees

Tyler McNaughton and Sacha Bentall produce pasture-finished livestock

By Geoff Geddes November 15, 2018

Tyler McNaughton and Sacha Bentall aren’t afraid to try something different as they develop their farming operation in southeastern B.C. The winners of the B.C.’s regional finalists for the 2018 Outstanding Young Farmer (OYF) Award took on some different ag enterprises in an area long established as a beef-cattle ranching region. Despite expected start-up challenges […] Read more

Brooks and Jen White of Pierson, Manitoba fencing near Bison pasture.

News

PHOTOS: Manitoba hosting 2018 OYF celebration

Nominees, alumni and guests to gather in Winnipeg

By Lee Hart November 15, 2018

Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmer (OYF) program is again making the point this November in Manitoba — that good farm operators are good farm operators whether it be producing pasture-pigs in B.C., grain, cattle or bison on the Prairies, or seed potatoes in New Brunswick. It’s all about hard work, good management and commitment to the […] Read more

Nutrien Ag Solutions launched a new customer portal over the summer.

Features, News

Nutrien Ag Solutions offers new digital platform

Customers can access agronomy,  business information and past purchases online

By Lisa Guenther November 13, 2018

A major ag input dealers aims to go beyond selling fertilizer and seed by providing easy access to business and agronomic information for its customers through a digital platform. “We think this is where the world is going and we want to offer that service to our customers,” says Mike Frank, president of Nutrien Ag […] Read more

The Sportz Camo Truck Tent from Napier retails for US$329.99 and can be purchased through a variety of Canadian retailers.

Machinery, News

Truck tent an economical camping option

Sportz Camo truck tent quickly  converts a pickup to a camper

By Scott Garvey November 9, 2018

There’s no doubt all those camper trailers that fill RV dealers’ lots offer some impressive accommodations. But they don’t exactly come cheap. And if you want to spend time in the great outdoors, do you really need a satellite receiver and a big screen TV? If getting an enjoyable weekend nature experience is really what […] Read more

Canola, News

New canola varieties for 2019

Eight new herbicide-tolerant canola varieties on the market for next year

By Leeann Minogue November 6, 2018

Every year Grainews contacts seed companies so we can make a list of the new varieties coming out for the next season. This year, the biggest challenge was keeping track of who’s who. With all the mergers and purchases that have taken place in the input supply industry, it took a spreadsheet to track which […] Read more

Ford will soon introduce a small utility vehicle, but as yet it hasn't been given a name.

Machinery, News

Ford heads into the hills

The brand sees its future as a builder of mainly pickups and SUVs

By Scott Garvey November 2, 2018

In 1966 Ford was the first of the Detroit Three automakers to realize the Jeep brand was onto something. At the time, Kaiser, which bought Willys and therefore ownership of the Jeep brand, had turned the spunky little four-wheel drive into a growing line of Jeep-branded vehicles designed for weekend warriors who wanted to hit […] Read more

Jack Anderson and his daughter Wynne Chisholm donated a $44 million gift to University of Calgary veterinary school.

Cattleman’s Corner, News

Calgary vet school ready to go ranching

Gift of a fully functioning ranch takes teaching and research to a new level

By Lee Hart October 29, 2018

It’s not every day a 19,000-acre working cattle ranch lands in your lap, but that’s the very welcome problem the University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine School (UCVM) is dealing with this fall as a gift from an Alberta ranching family propels the 13-year-old school into a league of its own among vet schools in North […] Read more

Wheat and Canadian Money or dollar or currency in double exposure shot, concept for earnings or spend in Agriculture

Features, News

Farm debt in Western Canada

Our debt levels are increasing, but our debt-to-equity ratios are holding steady

By Leeann Minogue October 29, 2018

The headline of an article released by FCC near the end of September was a little worrying: “What does a new high in farm debt mean for the ag sector?” Between 2016 and 2017, total Canadian farm debt increased by 6.6 per cent to more than $100 billion. In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the increase […] Read more

News, Wheat & Chaff

Breathing easy: preventing farmer’s lung

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association October 29, 2018

It’s been quite the fall. Snow, rain, and sleet have wreaked havoc on harvest throughout the region. Although great for soil recharge, all this moisture is not so great for crops still waiting to be harvested. The result is that some farmers have had to put away crops wet and when this happens, so does […] Read more

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