Alberta Agriculture

Ag for Life Launches Farmers in Flannel Photo Contest to celebrate farmers and a successful harvest.

Most cereal crops came in high-grade with high yields in 2020.

Trudeau made the comment in response to a demand by Canadian dairy farmers for compensation

Alberta Agriculture and Parks wild boar specialist says the only way to eradicate the wild boar problem in the province is through group trapping

Alberta beekeepers could lose up to 30 per cent of their hives this year due to a bad winter last year and the impact of COVID-19.

Grain farmers in Alberta didn't face the same sorts of problems from COVID-19 that other agricultural producers did, and actually had an easier time getting their products to market, but they're still recovering from a bad winter.

“The majority of what we sell gets picked, packed and shipped within the same day ... there is no ability to weather challenging times and difficult storms by building inventory,” Hamer said.

The cut helped even out an oversupply of milk that was forcing some farmers to dump their milk for lack of anywhere to send it.

After restaurants closed, Sturgeon County egg farmer Paul Wurz immediately began fielding calls from grocery stores as far away as Slave Lake who were seeing an uptick in demand for eggs.

Cutting their spring and summer quotas means farmers can give processing plants some more breathing room.