Tariffs could drop Canadian canola acres

Tariff-driven hits to market access for both the U.S. and China might have some Canadian farmers rethinking their 2025 canola seeding plans, but crop rotations make planting plans hard to break away from.


Canadians head to the polls

Canadians, including Canadian farmers, are voting for their next federal government April 28, after an election campaign in which U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and musings about annexing Canada became the central issue.




No straw allowed for Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Anyone who beds animals at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair this year won’t be doing it with straw. The Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba, which holds the major agro-tourism event in Brandon each year, says straw animal bedding will no longer be used at its events due to the cost of dealing with the used material.[...]