This week, Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan hosted the Ag Awareness Summit at Saskatoon where they announced the 2022 Champion Award winner, Alanna Koch. The Farm and Food Care Champion Award recognizes an individual who has connected consumers with agriculture and built public trust in farming and food in Saskatchewan and beyond. Koch farms along... Read More

If you're paying attention to social media today — February 15th, 2023 — you'll likely notice those involved in the agriculture industry are celebrating Canada's Agriculture Day across the country. For me, personally, there's no better way to celebrate Canadian agriculture than by catching up with farmers across the country on RealAg Radio, and seeing... Read More

The Canadian Agricultural HR Council (CAHRC) has received funding from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), for Growing the Agriculture Workforce of the Future: Cultivating Canada's Post-Pandemic Recovery. This funding is part of ESDC's Sectoral Workplace Solutions Program (SWSP) that helps key sectors of the economy implement solutions to address their current and emerging workforce... Read More

Clean Seed Capital Group Ltd., makers of the SMART Seeder, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mahindra and Mahindra Limited to bring the seeding technology to India and to collaborate on other related opportunities. "The fundamental goal of this collaboration will be to eradicate stubble burning, reduce input costs, boost crop production, enhance... Read More

GEA has announced it is moving manufacturing of its rotary parlour platforms to Galesville, Wisconsin. Prior to this announcement, the components came from New Zealand; however increasing costs and disruptions in overseas shipping pushed the company to make the switch. This move makes their rotary milking structures the only ones in the industry that are... Read More

Corteva has made it official — Optimum GLY canola will be available for growers for seeding this year. The trait, which offers herbicide tolerance to a higher rate of glyphosate and over a wider window of application timing, received the last market approval almost exactly a month ago, on January 13. China was the last... Read More

The federal government has committed another $150 million to Protein Industries Canada over the next five years, as the original funding for the innovation cluster expired last year. The protein initiative is one of five clusters receiving funding as part of the $750 million Global Innovation Cluster program that was announced in the 2022 budget... Read More