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After spring floods drowned his seeding plans two years straight, Walter Finlay is harvesting what looks to be an average or slightly better crop of wheat and canola. "Average" will do just fine this year. The worst drought in a half century in the U.S. Midwest has scorched corn and soybean crops, igniting grain and[...]

Prairie farmers can expect one of their two main railways to press harder for wider profit margins under a quick regime change announced Thursday. Canadian Pacific Railway's embattled CEO Fred Green announced his resignation Thursday morning, hours ahead of a shareholder vote in Calgary on nominations to the company's board, put forward by an activist[...]

Recent precipitation across a large portion of Alberta will help improve moisture levels in the province, as seeding operations are set to get underway for the year. Some barley and spring wheat was already seeded in southern Alberta over the past week, before precipitation and colder temperatures halted that activity, said crop specialist Harry Brook[...]

Varying amounts of precipitation prevented producers in Alberta from getting on fields and actively preparing for spring seeding during the week ended May 2, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Some seeding in the province has been completed, however," said Harry Brook with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre at Stettler.In more southerly regions of Alberta, seeding[...]

Warm and dry weather conditions seen across Western Canada this winter may be leading to some talk of an earlier-than-normal start to spring seeding. However, crop specialists in the three Prairie provinces say weather over the next month will play a key role in determining when producers actually get out on their fields. The lack[...]

Alberta's provincial Liberal caucus has lost its agriculture, rural development and municipal affairs critic to the governing Tories. Bridget Pastoor, the MLA for Lethbridge East since 2004, announced her decision Monday at an Edmonton press conference alongside Premier Alison Redford, who described Pastoor as a "dedicated and hard-working representative for her constituents." Pastoor, 71, had[...]

A suspect in what's alleged to be a botched abduction of prominent Alberta livestock auctioneer Blair Vold has been seen on candid cameras. RCMP at Ponoka, Alta., north of Red Deer, on Monday released new colour photos of a man allegedly trying to use Vold's bank card at a CIBC branch at nearby Wetaskiwin. The[...]

Prairie canola growers should be scouting their fields "immediately" as populations of bertha armyworm are nearing economic thresholds to spray, the Canola Council of Canada warns in Grainews' CropWatch. Hot, dry weather has been "favourable" to the insect's numbers, the council said, noting some growers in Manitoba, eastern Saskatchewan and the Peace region have already[...]

In his latest Call of the Land weekly interview, Alberta Agriculture pest specialist Scott Meers has mostly good news on insect pressure in the province.Meers says four weeks into the six-week monitoring period for bertha armyworms, trap counts are "really low" with one exception in the Fort Vermilion area. He cautions that there could still[...]

Seeding operations in Alberta are generally complete with the only exceptions in the south, where less than five per cent of the intended crop still needs to be put into the ground, according to a provincial crop specialist. "That area has been extremely wet and has prevented producers from seeding the last of the crops,"[...]