Agriculture

Annual precipitation in Swift Current so far in 2022 is 300 millimetres below average, which is twice as bad as the worst year in the 1930s.

Welcome snow laden with much-needed moisture was greedily absorbed by parched soil.

Yields have increased since 2014, but across the Prairies the average yields were in the high 30s or low 40s in 2022.

Author Kendall Wicks shares childhood memories of harvest on the farm.

CALGARY — Nutrien Ltd. is sticking to its plan to increase potash production, even as the Saskatoon-based fertilizer giant cut its full-year guidance for 2022 due to slumping potash sales volumes in the second half of this year.

The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent kicked up more dust than a tractor on a grid road when it was first announced by the federal Liberal government last summer.

Fertilizer supplies are being squeezed as manufacturers curtail production due to sky-high natural gas prices.

Should the flow of portable fuel dry up, so will the global economy.

The throne speech indicates the government program will generate voluntary carbon offset credits.

Today’s agriculture system is deeply flawed and in dire need of a transformation, says the head of a major food company.