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(Resource News International) -- Wet weather conditions have slowed the development of grain and oilseed crops across the central and southern regions of Alberta, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Crop development was probably the furthest ahead in the northern growing areas of the Peace River district," said Harry Brook, a crop specialist with the[...]

Ontario Tory MPP and rural affairs critic Bill Murdoch has announced he won't seek re-election next year. When election time comes, provincial Tory leader Tim Hudak said Monday, the Ontario legislature "will lose one of its most tenacious members, a true maverick and a long-standing champion of rural and agricultural Ontario." First elected in 1990[...]

(Resource News International) -- Recent rainfall across some of the driest areas of Alberta should come as welcome news to the province's farmers. And forecasts call for widespread precipitation for much of the province over the next week, a provincial specialist noted. Harry Brook, a crops specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre at Stettler, said[...]

(Resource News International) -- The wet weather seen across Western Canada over the past week will do little to change the grasshopper outlook this year, although better moisture levels may help alleviate some of the grasshopper concerns later in the summer. Grasshopper forecasts for the three Prairie provinces, based off surveys of adult grasshoppers taken[...]

(Resource News International) -- Spring fieldwork has begun in select areas of Alberta with some seeding operations underway in the extreme southern regions of the province, according to a provincial crop specialist.  "I would say seeding is very limited still, with less than five per cent of the intended area in the ground in regions[...]

(Resource News International) -- The precipitation that fell in the form of snow over the past few days looks to have done little to alleviate the dry soil moisture conditions across many ag growing areas in Alberta. "There's been little accumulation of snow to date and what has fallen has barely been enough to wet[...]

(Resource News International) -- Crop conditions across Western Canada are variable heading into spring seeding, with dryness a concern in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and flooding possible in Manitoba's Red River valley, according to provincial crop specialists. However, seeding is still a month or more away in most areas, and the possibility of late-winter[...]

For a protected area that was meant to preserve southern Ontario's farmland and agriculture, the Greenbelt doesn't seem to have done the job for livestock producers, a new study suggests. It shouldn't surprise anyone that "traditional" livestock operations, such as dairy, beef and hog farms, have experienced a decline throughout Ontario since 2001. But the[...]

(Resource News International) -- Grain and oilseed crops across much of Alberta benefited from recent warm temperatures, but more of those weather conditions are required in order to help speed up the maturity rate, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Producers in the province are starting to think it's a bit of a losing battle[...]

(Resource News International) -- Grain and oilseed crops across much of Alberta are in serious need of warm temperatures in order to speed up the maturity process and avoid damage from an early frost, according to a provincial crop specialist. "It's going to be a race to see if the crops are going to be[...]