Agriculture

A new climate reality threatening Prairies.

Lloyd Ex Fair begins Wednesday, July 12.

Soaring feed costs are offsetting the recent record-setting prices and cutting into livestock producers’ profitability.

CALGARY — Anxious Alberta ranchers praying for rain got their wish this week, but it may not be enough to stop the ongoing decline in Canadian cattle production.

Stoked Oats: A game changer for gluten-sensitive diets.

Challenges include California’s Proposition 12, foreign animal diseases, trade worries and chronic labour shortages.

Proposed traceability regulations are part of program to develop foot-and-mouth disease prevention, response initiatives.

Crops on lighter soils and hill tops are suffering the most from the dry conditions, more clay textured soils have begun to crack.

Producers are now getting into the full swing of in crop spraying for weeds and insect pests.

Crop conditions across the province mostly range from fair to excellent. Most damage this week was from drought stress in localized areas.