High fertilizer, fuel and crop protection costs are pushing Prairie producers to rethink purchasing and application strategies.
Op/Ed
Farmers look to bust higher input costs
Input costs like fertilizer and fuel are up as farmers head into spring seeding, but there are ways they should consider stretching their dollar when it comes to nitrogen
OPINION: Agriculture needs to lead its own solutions
Canadian agriculture needs a clear and united voice in the face of global uncertainty and a looming CUSMA review, the author writes
Cam Dahl argues Canadian agriculture must break out of commodity silos and present united policy solutions to government.
OPINION: Fertilizer price highs come with hard efficiency lessons
Environmental advocates couldn't get farmers to take 4R seriously — maybe a price shock will
Sticker shock on crop nutrients may finally force an efficiency reckoning on the Prairies.
Producers must tread carefully when food fads come calling
Editorial: Recent changes to milk pricing are just one example of how food fads trickle back to the farm
Canada’s farmers can’t afford to farm the fads but would still do well to observe changing consumer behaviours for common threads throughout, Laura Rance writes.
Farm equipment makers caught in war-driven stock market shockwave
John Deere, AGCO and CNH Industrial have seen billions erased from their market valuations as the Iran conflict pushes oil past US$100 a barrel and deepens uncertainty across the agriculture sector
Major manufacturers, including John Deere, AGCO and CNH Industrial, see market capitalizations drop by billions as Iran war continues to roil global markets.
OPINION: Global chaos raises stakes for green farm technology
On-farm green ammonia starts to look a lot more appealing when the global fertilizer market gets caught in a geopolitical firestorm every few years
With fertilizer prices spiking on Middle East conflict, on-farm green ammonia and other innovations offer Prairie farmers a path to stability.
Canada’s crop breeding system needs farmer-led evolution, not just preservation
Passive dependence won't sustain Canada's crop breeding legacy — farmer ownership will
The pressures facing Canada's crop breeding system are structural, not cyclical. Darcy Pawlik argues farmer ownership is the path forward.
Iran war catches Prairie farmers in the geopolitical crossfire — again
Prairie farmers didn’t ask for a Mideast conflict to squeeze global fuel and fertilizer supply chains — threatening to send farm costs spiking — but here we are
Prairie farmers didn’t ask for a Mideast conflict to squeeze global fuel and fertilizer supply chains — threatening to send farm costs spiking — but here we are.
Trade uncertainty is back on the Canadian national menu
Tariff decision injects more unpredictability into North American food supply chains
Even if CUSMA-compliant goods remain exempt from Trump’s new tariffs for now, trade risk for farmers has not disappeared, Sylvain Charlebois warns.
A short recap of the never-ending glyphosate saga
Editorial: Farmers are watching on the sidelines as the glyphosate story twists and turns
Prairie farmers are concerned about the chances of losing a herbicide that’s played a pivotal role in conservation agriculture — and the chill this saga puts on new product investment.