Western Canadian farmers are using minimum and zero-till farming, tile drainage, slow-release fertilizer, and better crop breeding to produce record crops despite drought conditions.
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How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods
Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026
Food prices are 27 per cent higher now than they were in 2020, the new Canada’s Food Price Report shows. Meat prices are particularly to blame for the rise.
Sustainability disclosure ‘ticket to play’ in emerging global market
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Panellists at CSSB event Sustainability Disclosure in Canada: Overcoming the Headwinds discussed the future of ESG standards, which have the potential to change Canadian agriculture’s business environment.
How much nitrogen can farmers really cut?
Manitoba fertilizer trials search for the sweet spot where farmers can cut nitrogen rates, with a nitrification inhibitor, without harm to yield
Manitoba fertilizer trials seek a sweet spot where farmers can cut nitrogen rates, with a nitrification inhibitor, without hurting yield and with fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
2025 set to be among hottest years on record: WMO
With only two months remaining in the year, 2025 is set to be among the top three hottest years on record, according to the State of the Global Climate Update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The mean near-surface temperature in January-August 2025 was 1.42 C above the pre-industrial average, said the WMO report, released […] Read more
Lower nitrogen rates in dry beans could pay off for farmers
Manitoba trials test whether farmers can apply less nitrogen to dry beans without losing yield, despite their typically poor nitrogen-fixing capacity
Manitoba research is testing whether reduced nitrogen fertilizer in dry beans can maintain yields while cutting costs and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Turning excess water into an asset with consolidation drainage
Farmers in the “prairie pothole” region are using its natural storage capacity to their advantage
After heavy rains flooded his yard, a Saskatchewan farmer turned to a consolidation drainage and irrigation project to better manage water on his land. Here’s how it works — and how the WSA and funding help make it happen.
Western Canadian agriculture’s growing thirst
Editor’s Boss: Atmospheric dryness is adding a third dimension to the moisture equation driving Prairie crop yields and wildfires
Earth’s air is getting thirstier — a desiccating phenomenon researchers say has increased the intensity of global droughts by 40 per cent over the past four decades.
Alberta agronomist sees both sides of regenerative agriculture
Author Scott Gillespie offers producers advice on how to practically apply the soil regeneration movement to their farms
Alberta agronomist and author Scott Gillespie has seen farmers choose agricultural systems that seem right on the surface but don’t make a noticeable, economically sustainable difference.
A wetter and drier world is coming for Prairie farmers
As warming supercharges the water cycle, the swings will become more pronounced
Earth’s oceans cover over 70 per cent of the planet’s surface, and they are a massive heat sink, absorbing more than 90 per cent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases.
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