AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 11, 2025

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 11, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Guelph researchers creating a more robust, transgenic canola Crop breeders from the University of Guelph are well on their way to creating a better yielding, more stress-tolerant canola variety. Early results are showing an increased seed yield of 35 per cent per plant. The researchers used gene editing to remove some canola genes and […] Read more

AgGronomyTV: Assessing crop nutrients when weather isn’t in your favour

AgGronomyTV: Assessing crop nutrients when weather isn’t in your favour

Reading Time: < 1 minute It can feel like the lottery when it comes to which fields get rain and which ones don’t when clouds roll in. But what does that mean for fertilizers that need soil moisture to get nutrients moving into plants? Marla Riekman, soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, shares what she’s hearing from growers in southern […] Read more


Prairie Crop Update with Bruce Burnett: 2025 edition

Prairie Crop Update with Bruce Burnett: 2025 edition

Follow Bruce as he provides crop progress updates for Western Canada over the 2025 growing season

Reading Time: 2 minutes Update No. 8, July 8, 2025 (below): Bruce visits a canola and soybean field and both crops are progressing nicely – the canola is bolting and flowering and the soybeans are in the V4 to V7 stage. A little bit of rain reportedly fell in the area which helped these two fields develop, but more […] Read more

VIDEO: Managing ‘not-so-good’ vibrations

VIDEO: Managing ‘not-so-good’ vibrations

Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you getting bad vibes from someone with whom you usually feel quite connected? It can be tough for everyone to always jive with everyone else when you work and/or live together day after day. But if there is in fact something wrong and you’d like to get to the bottom of it, Patti Durand […] Read more


AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 4, 2025

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for July 4, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tax walk-back avoids trade negotiation breakdown Canada scrapped its digital services tax on Monday after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened to end trade negotiations. In a social media post on Friday, Trump had called the tax a “blatant attack” and suggested he’d impose new tariffs. Negotiations resumed after the Carney government dropped the tax, which […] Read more

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VIDEO: Owning your influence in the community

Summer Series: Farmers are leaders in their communities, whether they realize it or not. Here’s how and why you should embrace that influence

Reading Time: 3 minutes A few years ago, I made a simple decision that would end up changing the way I see leadership. I signed up to get involved in my son’s rec hockey organization. At the time, I was excited. I wanted to be part of something meaningful, to give back, to support him and the other kids.  […] Read more


AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for June 27, 2025

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for June 27, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes   Bill C-202 passes in the Senate A bill to protect supply management sailed through the Senate late last week to the consternation of farm and exporter groups. Bill C-202 amends the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act to make supply management untouchable in future trade talks. The Canadian agri-food trade alliance said […] Read more

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VIDEO: How to go from managing to mentoring

Summer Series: How you lead matters. Subtle but powerful shifts in your leadership style can make a world of difference to your employees and, consequently, to your farm business

Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s a moment every leader remembers: that moment when someone looks at them differently. Not because of what that leader did, but because of how they did it. That’s mentorship. There have been a few times in my career where I’ve had glimpses of a true mentor. Those moments stand out. But the most impactful […] Read more


AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for June 20, 2025

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for June 20, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Global agriculture leaders host forum as G7 leaders meet As G7 leaders arrive in Kananaskis, Alberta, agriculture leaders from around the world held their own forum to talk food security. The event was hosted in Olds, Alberta, by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. Institute director Manuel Otero told delegates that meeting the world’s […] Read more

AgGronomyTV: Fungicide timing for scelerotinia in canola

AgGronomyTV: Fungicide timing for scelerotinia in canola

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sclerotinia in canola can be a serious yield robber if not quickly identified and protective measures aren’t taken. Here, Chris Manchur with the Canola Council of Canada talks about how to spot sclerotinia in a canola field and when to apply a fungicide to help suppress the infection.