Fusarium head blight forecasts offer key information when Manitoba farmers are trying to decide whether they need to apply fungicide against the disease in their 2025 cereal crops.
Rebekah Sandford planted 28,000 garlic plants by hand last year on her operation near St. Malo, Manitoba. She’s one of the few local garlic growers in the province and on the Prairies.
Canada’s beekeepers are losing hives to issues like foulbrood and varroa mites. A B.C. company hopes their product, ApiSave, will help turn the tide for Canadian honeybees.
Heartland Livestock Services in Virden and Grunthal Auction Mart in Grunthal have offered farmers in fire-threatened areas a safe place to evacuate their livestock.
Standardizing regenerative agriculture could make the system easier to market, but too much rigid definition could also alienate farmers and undermine grassroots progress, experts worry.