
Tag Archives sustainable agriculture

Finding the value of cover crops for Western Canada
Cover crops are now standard practice farther south in the U.S., but do they have the same results on the shorter-season Prairies?

Re-setting the mind-set on cover crops
Research is shining new light on when — and why — to make cover crops part of your routine field management

Why Environmental Farm Plans aren’t just for livestock farmers
All three Prairie provinces offer to cost-share programs for producers who have completed an Environmental Farm Plan and adopt beneficial management practices

Conservation tillage driving Brazil’s corn and soybean explosion
No-till farm group says no-till is the key to long-term sustainable agriculture

Zone-by-zone nitrogen application may not pay
A three-year study finds surprisingly little response to extra nitrogen in both high- and low-producing areas

Editor’s Note: Did farms make the right choices?
We have all heard it before. It’s the saying that most bad decisions get made in good times. So, in the midst of the bull market a decade ago, we wondered what we’d be looking back on in 2020

The booming bioeconomy — Part 2
In part one of this feature, we introduced the bioeconomy and how Canada is working to become a world leader. In part two we look at specific sector developments from coast to coast — there are lots of them!

Regenerative agriculture hits the mainstream
Big Ag is getting on the bandwagon, but market premiums still aren’t on the table

The way it happens
How do new farmers get a start in Canada? Every story is unique, but so often it starts, as here, with the right people somehow getting together

What’s good about soil?
Soil health indicators often relate to properties that you can’t see