Agriculture

Last week Canada’s Agriculture Day came and went with limited awareness and almost no fanfare.

Saskatchewan’s unique “patent box” incentive, introduced in 2017 and designed to position the province as an attractive location for the development and launch of innovative products, has secured its first successful investment.

Often it seems the investment in research and development is out of step with what the marketplace is suggesting. But the two are not particularly related if one steps back and takes a look at things as a larger picture.

British Columbia producer eyeing opportunity in the province

Recently, Saskatchewan’s agri-food industry celebrated the grand opening of the new Agri-Food Innovation Centre (AFIC), a 43,000-square foot facility that will diversify the Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre’s (Food Centre) capacity to de

If there is one thing which agriculture relies on, at least in this country, it is trade. In Canada we have far more production capacity than we do mouths to feed, and that means farmers must export most of what they produce in order to be viable.

One truth about farming is that acres tend to flow to crops deemed to have the best chance of a good return. On first look that statement is rather obvious, and would seem to make sense.

Recently, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced $6.

After 32 years of representing the interests of all agricultural and industrial flax interests, the Flax Council of Canada’s Executive Committee has announced the closure of its office at 465-167 Lombard Avenue in Winnipeg, effective January 31, 2018

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) are giving an ancient grain a new life: this barley is naked, but not in an indecent way. Most barley grains are covered rather than naked.