2025 delivered record-breaking sales and attendance across farm visits and culinary events. Alberta Open Farm Days is a provincewide initiative, inviting Alberta farms to open their gates to the ...

The Alberta Federation of Agriculture (AFA) is pleased to announce its 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM), taking place on ...

A southern Alberta ranch has accessed millions of dollars in grant funding for infrastructure and labour costs that many may ...

As of April 1, Alberta’s Class 1 licensing and training changes will exempt the province’s farmers and their immediate family from mandatory entry-level training (MELT), providing them with a ...

Showcasing agricultural practices in Alberta, a grain bag is efficiently filled on a local farm. Once empty, these bags will be responsibly recovered and recycled through Cleanfarms' programs, ...

Five years ago, grain farmer Sean Stanford talked openly about his struggles with mental health. Back then, a “horrible” crop due a lack of moisture took its toll. Stanford, who farms near Lethbridge, ...

While Alberta farmers are optimistic about their crops this year thanks to the incessant rainfall earlier in the summer, they hope the current heat wave doesn't last much longer. Some regions of the ...

On a sunny morning in April, police officers arrived at the house of Henk Van Essen, arrested the small-town Alberta chicken farmer and locked him behind bars for two nights. He was accused of ...

Large portions of Dan Jackson’s 1,600-hectare plot of farmland are littered with chunks of wood, twisted metal and household objects. Farm equipment and silos of grain lay overturned and smashed into ...

When a hailstorm bludgeoned through central Alberta on Aug. 1, vehicles on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway were heavily damaged by record-breaking hailstones — and so were grain, fruit and vegetable ...

Despite seeing promising crop yields this year, there's a heightened sense of pessimism among Alberta farmers as the harvest season wraps up. Farmers said that barley and wheat crops were great, but ...