By Tim Kalinowski With meat packing plants either closed or under pressure to close due to major outbreaks of COVID-19 among processing staff on both sides of
By Tim Kalinowski, Signing off as Editor of Ag-Matters Well, there’s no sugar-coating it. The challenges toward agriculture in this country keep piling up. It’s tough to
By Tim Kalinowski For many years farm organizations like the Alberta Federation of Agriculture have been championing growth in the local food industry as a means to
By Tim Kalinowski A survey created by the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan reveals some of the effects COVID-19 is already having on the province’s agriculture sector,
By Tim Kalinowski Alberta field vegetable growers are feeling the strains of COVID-19 profoundly, says Gary van der Waal, director at large for the South Zone for
By Tim Kalinowski Ag-Matters recently held an email interview with Alberta ranch historian and author D. Larraine Andrews who was in mandatory quarantine after her return from
By Tim Kalinowski Greenhouse growers across the province are less concerned about getting their seasonal workers into the country than keeping them healthy now that they are
By Tim Kalinowski There’s nothing like a crisis to help anyone re-evaluate what’s important, says Nichole Neubauer of Neubauer farms based in Cypress County. “In a way,
By Tim Kalinowski Southern Alberta is in a good position to continue to grow into the future thanks to a well-managed irrigation infrastructure second to none, says
By Tim Kalinowski Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures as Canada’s agriculture industry and grain transportation industry struggles to find ways to keep things moving in the
