Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian farmers have front-row seats to the world’s biggest geopolitical risk, according to David Frum. “I think the thing that worries me the most is the threat […] Read more
U.S. political instability called major global risk
David Frum says partisan fighting distracts superpower from its crucial role in the world
Canada’s Agriculture Day: some highights from Ottawa
Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian agriculture industry celebrated Canada’s Agriculture Day in Ottawa Feb. 13 at the Future of Food conference. Reporter Ed White shares some highights and photos from […] Read more
ASF compartmentalization moves a step forward
Plan not an attempt to download responsibilities, CFIA says
Canada is one step closer to a compartmentalizing regime that hog farmers and the rest of the industry hope protects them against market impacts of African swine fever. Practical application […] Read more
Tech simplifies hog feed monitoring to reduce down time
FeedFlo system monitors feed pipes to ensure feed is flowing
Glacier FarmMedia – Successful technology often arises from figuring out how to simplify something that’s exceedingly complex. That’s what Casey Forsyth and his team at FeedFlo think they’ve managed to […] Read more
Be optimistic with grain storage system plans
It’s best to plan for the best year to ensure sufficient storage
Glacier FarmMedia – Planning a storage system means being optimistic, future-focused and strategic. It isn’t something faced only when a big crop is coming and there’s not enough room to […] Read more
Mid-sized rock picker simple but tough
Degelman’s new rock picker designed to reduce the number of rock pickers a farm needs
Glacier FarmMedia – Rocks don’t change. Farmers have been picking and dumping them ever since fields were broken. But farms have changed. Farmers have changed. Farm machinery has changed. That […] Read more
Opinion: Ottawa’s social media feud may make info harder to find
Glacier FarmMedia – Rich and powerful men can be silly. It’s been easy to laugh at the antics of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Elon Musk as they swing handbags […] Read more
Three-in-one swine vaccine hard to make
The manufacturers of a trivalent vaccine aimed at the hog sector faced a number of challenges
Glacier FarmMedia – Multiple studies examining the ability of Merck Animal Health’s Circumvent CML vaccine to control porcine circovirus, mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and lawsonia intracellularis in hogs were required to prove […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: ‘Small iron’ revolution brings bikes to farms
There’s a “small iron revolution” happening on farms across Canada. Even though most farmers and people in agriculture probably see “fat bikes” and “e-bikes” as urban phenomena, these new versions […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: Farmers gung-ho about digital integration system
'Having a single data point... was number one for us'
For a committed user of the Climate FieldView digital integration system, Mike Ferguson had an unusual observation about himself. “I’m not a big technology guy,” said Ferguson, who with his […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
