Reading Time: < 1 minute Cody Snyder is a seasoned traveler who found his way back to the family farm. In this episode, Cody tells us how travelling the world has changed his outlook on business and his career. Listen in at country-guide.ca. If you missed our last episode where we featured Cody’s dad, Graham, you can catch up on […] Read more
Summer Series: Podcast with Cody Snyder
Summer Series: Podcast with Graham Snyder
Reading Time: < 1 minute “It’s not a job it’s a life” In our latest episode from our Country Guide we speak with Graham Snyder on what hard work means to him and how he farms as a family. Graham Snyder has been working on farms his whole life. From cash crop farming to tillage and combining the Snyder family […] Read more
Prairie forecast: More typical summer weather
Forecast issued July 10, covering July 10 to 17, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes For this forecast period, it looks like the upper ridge will slowly flatten and drop southwards as a series of weak lows track across the northern Prairies. This will result in a reduction in the extreme temperatures. Daytime highs and overnight lows should fall back to more seasonable values.
VIDEO: Summer Series: Greg Stamp and Sarah Stamp of Stamp Seeds
Reading Time: < 1 minute Second generation grain producers, Greg and Sarah Stamp, of Stamp Seeds & Stamp Farms from Enchant, Alta., were 2023 national winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers. Along with their family they operate Stamp Seeds and Stamp Farms in the Bow River Irrigation District. With 5,000 acres under irrigation and 2,000 acres of dryland farming, they produce pedigreed seed such as wheat, barley, […] Read more
Prairie forecast: A slow slide into summer
Forecast issued June 26, covering June 26 to July 3, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a change, this forecast period starts of with weak high pressure in place across the Prairies. This brings a mix of sun and clouds and near-average temperatures. Any below-average temperatures are the thanks to the return flow behind the strong area of low pressure which, as predicted, tracked across the central and northern Prairies and brought all sorts of severe weather earlier this week.
Farm equity, asset values up in 2023: StatCan
Farms' ability to pay debts declined but balance sheet remains strong
Reading Time: 2 minutes The total equity of the Canadian farm sector rose nearly eight per cent in 2023 while farm assets rose more than seven per cent according to Statistics Canada’s 2023 balance sheet.
Summer Series: Podcast with CG Associate Editor, April Stewart
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this edition of Country Guide’s Summer Series Podcast, Associate Editor April Stewart chats about her Québec farm, ag journalism, women in agriculture and more. Tune in at country-guide.ca and don’t forget to subscribe to the Country Guide Podcast on Google or Apple so you can catch new episodes as they’re released throughout the summer.
Prairie soil scientist and author Les Henry, 83
Henry's outreach to farmers spanned more than half a century
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia — Saskatchewan soil scientist Les Henry, well known for his work on improving Prairie farmland and his outreach to Prairie farmers in the pages of Grainews, has died. Ending a long fight with congestive heart failure, Henry died Friday in Saskatoon at age 83, having continued to write until very shortly before his […] Read more
Feds announce early livestock tax deferral
Reading Time: 2 minutes Livestock producers in drought-affected areas are getting and early livestock tax deferral (LTD) for the 2024 season. The federal government said the situation has become more challenging for producers due to climate change, when announcing a list of regions eligible for the deferral on June 14. The LTD allows producers in designated areas, who were […] Read more
Improvements to temporary foreign worker program recommended: CFIB
Reading Time: 2 minutes Temporary foreign workers (TFWs) may help alleviate persistent labour shortages in Canada’s agricultural sector, but adjustments to the system would increase efficiencies and create better alignment with the practical needs of agri-businesses, according to new research from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) that includes several recommendations for policy makers. “While government is reviewing […] Read more
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