Agriculture

Russia has a massive crop but also huge challenges.

University of Alberta plant pathologists say it could be another tool to improve sustainability and help with resistance.

Statistics Canada’s hard red spring wheat, durum and canola estimates were higher by 4.8, 6.0 and 3.8 bushels per acre respectively.

Shayda King has long loved horses and riding.

Concerns about field and equipment fires have eased and there is hope that the rain will be enough in some areas to allow pastures a little regrowth.

Project will focus on herd in Wood Buffalo National Park, where bovine tuberculosis and bovine brucellosis are endemic.

Analyst says such margins could be expected if a bumper crop was on the way, but that’s not in the forecast this year.

Combine harvester unit sales grew 33.1 percent to 221 units sold in Canada.

The stories are as valuable for salvage specialists as are the items they find in abandoned homesteads across the Prairies.

Federal government fumbled the ball when it rolled out its aspirational farm-fertilizer emissions goals.