Agriculture News

Chinese meat suspension costs Canadian industry $100 million

Beef and pork exports account for over half the $8.9 billion in farm cash receipts from livestock

Sep 24, 2019 9:05 AM Read more >

Average farmland price increases cooling off this year

Prices increased by three per cent in the first half of 2019, compared to 6.6 per cent last year

Sep 23, 2019 10:15 AM Read more >

Farming, farm-related jobs involve high technology skills

Seventy per cent of farmers from 25 to 59 reported using technology on the farm

Sep 23, 2019 9:00 AM Read more >

Good weather helps harvest progress

Information from the latest crop report, for the period of Sept. 10 to 16

Sep 21, 2019 12:22 PM Read more >

RBC report sees need to develop farm workers, technology in Canada

The report suggests Canada can more than $11 billion if it develops skills and embraces a culture of technology

Sep 19, 2019 11:11 AM Read more >

P & H acquires western elevators from Louis Dreyfus

Parrish and Heimbecker has acquired 10 grain handling plants, four of which are in Saskatchewan

Sep 16, 2019 10:08 AM Read more >

Harvest progress slow but steady

Information from the weekly crop report, for the period of Sept. 3 to 9

Sep 14, 2019 11:00 AM Read more >

Crop production shifts from canola, durum to barley, oats on fewer acres

Information from Statistics Canada's fall crop production estimates

Sep 12, 2019 9:00 AM Read more >

Farmers hope for sun to catch up on harvest

Farmers hope the wet weather won't stick around so harvest operations can continue

Sep 10, 2019 9:05 AM Read more >

Red meat outlook dampened by export loss, higher feed costs

The report for Farm Credit Canada predicts declining meat exports, higher feed costs and seasonal price dips

Sep 9, 2019 9:05 AM Read more >