More data on the farm also means more digital vulnerabilities.

How to manage a cyberattack

Saskatchewan cybersecurity expert Brennan Schmidt and Ali Dehghantanha of the University of Guelph offered the following tips to prevent a cybersecurity breach, handle an attack and mop up the fallout. To prevent a breach: Take a comprehensive inventory of all technology and identify the most important and potentially vulnerable pieces. Use unique, solid passwords, enable

The Marginal Areas Program typically offers $135 to $150 per acre, depending on location.

Incentives boosted for marginal acre conversion

DUC, FCC and PespiCo team up to help producers get the most from unproductive cropland

Ducks Unlimited Canada and Farm Credit Canada have a new partner for their sustainability initiatives. DUC announced in late May that multinational food company PepsiCo will help support FCC’s Sustainability Incentive Program. It links with DUC’s efforts to encourage producers to convert low productivity farmland into perennial cover. DUC’s Marginal Areas Program helps producers absorb






Firefighters work at the site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 14, 2024.

From Ukraine: Our common hive

The people of Ukraine continue to adapt, survive and even thrive

You wake up in the morning and drink coffee before starting the work day. You turn on the TV and listen to a long list of deaths and destruction that happened in your country overnight. The announcer speaks almost without emotion, as if he is talking about everyday, ordinary things. You hear that 10 missiles


An algae bloom photographed in 2017.

Opinion: Agriculture is part of the solution for Lake Winnipeg

Laying blame on farmers fails to capture nuance of the problem

It is not your great-granddaddy’s farm anymore. While some may have nostalgia for the old farm with a little red barn that housed a few chickens, a couple of pigs and a dairy cow, it is better for both the environment and the economy that agriculture has modernized. Today’s farmer has taken, and is taking,

As employee numbers increase on dairy farms, farmers have to learn to communicate the process improvement that has been part of their own way of working.

How to make your dairy processes lean and clean

Stopping and observing are the first steps to efficiency

Glacier FarmMedia – Dairy farmers work through similar processes every day, but taking another look at ordinary tasks can yield significant time and financial savings. Process evaluation has many names, including lean, Kaizan or Six Sigma, but the concepts are similar: constantly improve, find bottlenecks and reduce waste, according to Chris Church, a master’s student