An office of a 50-hectare rice farm is submerged in floodwater from the Benue river at Makurdi in central Nigeria on Oct. 1 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)

Nigeria’s flooding spreads to Delta, upending lives, livelihoods

Over a million acres of farmland damaged, wrecked

Rivers State, Nigeria | Reuters — People wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away, balancing suitcases, clothing and food on their heads. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria’s Rivers state, the gateway to the nation’s oil and gas. Now parts of Rivers, along with large swathes

Quebec’s Agriculture Minister Andre Lamontagne speaks to the CAQ’s annual meeting in Drummondville in late May 2022. (Andre Lamontagne video screengrab via Facebook)

Quebec ag minister cruises to re-election

Legault's CAQ scores bigger second majority

Quebec’s incumbent agriculture, food and fisheries minister will be returning to the province’s legislature as part of an even larger government caucus. Preliminary results in Monday’s provincial election put Francois Legault’s Coalition avenir Quebec (CAQ) in a solid majority government position with 90 of 125 seats, followed by Dominique Anglade’s Liberals, remaining in official opposition


File photo of a rapeseed field in southern China’s Yunnan province. (YuenWu/iStock/Getty Images)

One-third of China’s land protected under ecological ‘red line’ scheme

Authorities crack down on farm encroachment

Shanghai | Reuters — Nearly a third of China’s land is now off-limits to development under a scheme known as the “ecological protection red line,” a senior official said at a news briefing on Monday, bringing the country in accord with global biodiversity targets. China first proposed its “red line” scheme in 2011 to put

Visitors walk the grounds at Ag in Motion on July 19, 2022 after taking cover from a rain shower. (Liam O’Connor photo)

Glacier FarmMedia acquires Ag in Motion property

Show site's investors honoured as 2022 event begins

The investors who helped secure the land that now hosts the annual Ag in Motion outdoor farm show have been given a gift that keeps on giving. At a presentation on Tuesday, the first day of the show’s 2022 in-person edition, Glacier FarmMedia — which owns the event along with this website and other farm


Letters: Hydro lines offer headaches

Letters: Hydro lines offer headaches

Manitoba Hydro is planning a 230-kV metal-structured power line to boost capacity in Portage la Prairie from the Dorsey Converter Station (near Rosser). The proposed completion date is 2025. We live on a 430-acre farm near Poplar Point and are very concerned about the ‘preferred route’ Manitoba Hydro has chosen. It will go over our



Parts are already in short supply in Ukraine, and farmers are stockpiling and lending and borrowing amongst themselves. (Ihor Pavliuk photo)

Farming behind the lines in Ukraine

A Ukrainian agriculture journalist chronicles the challenges of sowing a crop during wartime

Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian invaders as strategic, a column set out on Monday. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of Ukraine. In it were farmers

(Dave Bedard photo)

Rate of rise in farmland value ‘surprised’ in 2021

Canada books 8.3 per cent year-over-year increase, FCC reports

MarketsFarm — Despite a year of economic uncertainty due to extreme weather, reduced crop yields and the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of Canadian farmland rose by its highest rate in four years, according to a report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). FCC’s report, released Monday, revealed that the national average value of farmland increased by


Cropland in the Overberg region of South Africa’s Western Cape province. (Nini/E+/Getty Images)

South African plan to allow land expropriation fails to pass

Constitutional amendment defeated by ruling ANC's opponents on both sides

Johannesburg | Reuters –– A proposal to change South Africa’s constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with no compensation failed to win the two-thirds of parliamentary votes that it needed on Tuesday. Lawmakers debated whether to change Section 25 of the constitution to enable authorities to seize land to address racial land inequalities left

“Be aware that once this land is taken from agricultural use, chances are it won’t come back to ag production.” – Bill Campbell, KAP.

From fields to houses: As Manitoba’s population grows, so does the desire to convert farmland

The province’s growing population needs homes, and frequently they’re built on former farmland

Over the last 20 years, Manitoba has shaken off decades of slow growth and posted sustained and significant population expansion. In 2000 there were 1.14 million citizens, according to figures from the most recent report on population by the provincial government. As of July of this year the same report estimated there were 1.41 million