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Manitoba cattle sales pulled in another week of strong volumes from Nov. 4-10, before breaking for Remembrance Day.

All seven livestock auction marts held sales, with all posting over 1,000...

Fall is the time of year when many Prairie grain producers put their product in storage for the winter or even longer, depending on their sales plans.

It’s also the time to think about what could be — if they’re not careful — a major quality and economic snag in those plans: the in-bin fungal disease ochratoxin A (OTA).

OTA is a

There are times in life when you want to be wrong. It’s the feeling I get wading through the pile of newly released reports extolling the unrealized “potential” for more value-added processing in Canadian agriculture.

There...

Some parts of Manitoba racked up another year of bad cabbage seedpod weevil pressure this year, and it wasn’t alone on the Prairies.

Saskatchewan’s 2026 cabbage seedpod weevil survey collected nearly twice as many insects as last year, a year were experts noted the

Fertilizer used to be boring.

Farmers, who use it to produce crops that keep people fed, are big fans, and fertilizer quietly paid a lot of bills where it was produced, including, of course, potash in Canada.

Now it’s at the centre of global geopolitics, no longer a simple commodity, but a strategic asset in a giant political chess game.

The ques...