Jan 4, 2025 · In 2022, LouAnn Solway, a rancher on Siksika First Nation in Alberta, told CBC Radio that when she needed a loan as a young rancher to expand her cattle herd, she approached several banks seeking $150,00 to $200,000.

Jan 3, 2025 · Sophie Kernéis-Golsteyn, a microbiologist, teacher and head of the microbial research lab at Lethbridge Polytechnic, is testing phytobiotics to see if the material can be used instead of antibiotics to treat chickens.

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Apr 5, 2024 · It’s called humalite, an organic soil amendment found exclusively in large deposits near Sheerness, about 25 kilometres from Hanna. It’s shaping up to be a made-in-Alberta solution for better nitrogen use efficiency, say researchers.. Some farmers have been combining the amendment with conventional fertilizers for years, but didn’t have scientific information on why it increased nitrogen ...

Mar 8, 2024 · Bovaer is a powdered supplement that cattle feeders and dairy producers can mix with feed. The developers, Switzerland-based dsm-firmenich, claim it can reduce methane emissions in beef cattle by an average of 45 per cent, and by 30 per cent in dairy cattle.. According to the company, it can also improve feed-to-gain ratio by three to five per cent and lower the greenhouse gas footprint per ...

Mar 12, 2024 · If Beuchemin has any misgivings about methane reduction, it’s that scientists don’t know its long-term, multigenerational effects. “It’s not so much about 3NOP. If you reduce methane by 30 or 40 per cent for several years in a row, we don’t know those long-term effects.”

Nov 14, 2023 · Terence Hochstein, executive director of the Potato Growers of Alberta, says potato crop returns are 100 per cent dependent on the weather. photo: Supplied Canadian growers had a good 2022 with a second consecutive record potato crop. P.E.I. produced the second largest share at 21.6 per cent and Manitoba came in third at 21.3 per cent.

Jan 6, 2025 · Pesticide manufacturers Syngenta and Corteva must face parts of a class action accusing the agricultural industry giants of using a loyalty program to stymie competition with rivals and keep prices artificially high for farmers, a federal judge in North Carolina has ruled.

May 15, 2024 · Ted Zettel says recent research showing grain-fed beef has less of a carbon impact failed to account for the long-term capacity of pasture to sequester carbon. photo: Zettel Family Farms The other panelist, beef specialist James Byrne from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, cautioned that grazing pastures and growing pastures are two separate processes.

Dec 21, 2022 · The tool, a table that uses 10 years’ worth of AFSC crop data, “provides a breakdown of the average percent yield of certain crops when seeded into specific crop stubble.”