Biosecurity: Keeping Animals Healthy On Canadian Farms
Biosecurity refers to procedures that prevent the introduction of diseases and reduce the frequency and severity of infection when they occur.
What are Codes of Practice for Animal Care
Codes Of Practice: The Building Blocks that Ensure Farm Animal Care.
How Is Wheat Grown In Canada?
Wheat is a staple food for 35% of the world's population and it is Canada's largest field crop. Wheat is grown on nearly 50,000 farms in Canada and our country is the fifth-largest wheat producer in the world.
Recycling On The Farm: Cleanfarms
Cleanfarms’ goal is to keep recyclable materials that are no longer useful on the farm out of landfills and burn piles.
Podcast: How do you stay healthy?
Patricia Chuey outlines six healthy eating truths that you can adopt in your own life. They include overall health, purchasing quality products, ensuring your or someone in your household is cooking and remembering that healthy aging is possible!
Protecting Biodiversity: Environmental Farm Plans
One of the key elements of environmental stewardship focuses on maintaining or improving the quality of soil, water, air and biodiversity of the land.
Encouraging Responsible Use Of Pesticides: Pesticide Applicator Licence
Some provinces require farmers to hold a Pesticide Applicator Licence to ensure that they understand how to properly read pesticide labels, and handle and apply pesticides.
Healthy Soil For Today And The Future: 4R Nutrient Stewardship
4R Nutrient Stewardship is an internationally recognized Canadian innovation. It is a voluntary program that advocates for responsible and effective management of fertilizer by using a science-based approach to guide farmers in the proper use of plant nutrients.
Podcast: How has innovation changed dairy farms?
New technologies and innovation are pivotal to ensuring that the farms remain sustainable now and into the future. In this podcast Andrew Campbell, aka Fresh Air Farmer, describes the new dairy barn his family built.
How Are Dry Peas Grown?
We spoke with Trent Richards, a farmer from Saskatchewan to learn more about how peas are grown in Canada.
Advances in Cattle Production Over Six Generations
Investing in technology like new cattle genetics and alternative grazing practices have been key factors in the Colborn farm’s longevity.
Six Generations of Advances in Crop Production
The Colborns have always made investments in new technology a key part of their farm business plan. This applies to their egg production and cattle herds, and also to their grain production operation, where there have been dramatic changes since the first Colborns started planting wheat in 1910.
Egg Farming Across Six Generations
Shawn Colborn is a fifth-generation poultry producer at Delisle, Saskatchewan, but he’s not likely to be the last Colborn in the egg business. For more than a century, the Colborn family has made egg production a part of their multi-generation family farm.
Podcast: Are cattle raised sustainably and humanely?
Consumers often wonder what is being done to ensure cattle are raised sustainably and humanely. Rancher Erika Stewart explains the audited (VBP+) program for Canadian cattle producers.
How Can Cattle Protect Grasslands?
In Canada, cattle are part of the prairie grasslands ecosystem, helping keep our native grasslands intact.
How Do Chickpeas Grow?
We are talking with Shaun, a farmer from Kyle, Saskatchewan. He grows several crops but we are going to focus on how he grows chickpeas.
Making Gin and Whisky from Local Ingredients
Black Fox Farm and Distillery is known for their award-winning gin and whisky, but also for their sustainability efforts and advocacy for Saskatchewan-based agri-food products.
How Does Regenerative Agriculture Work?
Agriculture is continually evolving and will continue to meet the needs of a changing world. Regenerative agriculture is just one strategy that farmers are using.
New Crops Help Us Solve Problems
Plant science – and specifically the science of plant breeding – is one of those tools which can help us overcome challenges as a global community.
4 Chicken Farmers Share Favourite Dinner Recipes
Meet four different chicken farmers from Saskatchewan and find out their favourite chicken recipes!
