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Grain deliveries to country elevators should continue without any disruptions, the executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association says. "All of the members of the Western Grain Elevator Association are doing everything in their power to keep the grain supply chain functioning" during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Wade Sobkowich said Tuesday. "That means we'll[...]

Alberta's ag sector will be key in rebuilding the province's economy once the pandemic is over, says the director of research for economics at ATB Financial. "Overall, I think one of the bright spots in a really dark economic situation in the province is our agriculture and agri-food sector," Rob Roach said. "It's still producing.[...]

Should farmers expect delays to fertilizer deliveries heading into spring seeding? "Not if we can help it," Fertilizer Canada CEO Garth Whyte said Thursday."We've weathered all the rail system disruptions that we had over the last six months, and now, with COVID-19, we're doing OK. "We've put contingency plans in at our manufacturing plants, at[...]

Prairie farmers shouldn't see a disruption to their farm fuel distribution as a result of COVID-19 safety measures. "Our members are committed to minimizing disruptions to the Canadian fuel supply as a result of the pandemic response," Canadian Fuels Association spokesperson Jason Vaillant said in an email. "Our members are working tirelessly to maintain operations[...]

Rocky Mountain House | AFE -- A community in central Alberta is in mourning following the deaths of three young sisters in a grain truck mishap on Tuesday night. "This is hitting us all very hard. Frontline responders are routinely called out to sad situations, but things are always harder when there's children involved," said[...]

The roof on Ken Munro's machine shed looked fine when he drove past it on his way to work one morning earlier this month. But a text from his son told a different story. "It had collapsed in the middle of the night," said Munro, an Innisfail-area grain farmer. Since early December, more than a[...]

The leaders of Canada's fractured beef sector need to work together and the rest of the industry needs to chip in more dollars for marketing and research, says a new report from a high-level task force. "We need to think as an industry, not just as sector components," said marketing specialist Kim McConnell, one of[...]