The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United merged in June 2007.
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One hundred years after the founding of the once-mighty Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the time might be ripe for a revival of Prairie farmer co-operatives.
Chickens are vibrant communicators.
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Artificial intelligence can process large amounts of chicken vocalizations, identifying patterns in the birds’ communications.
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Switching to a plant-based diet could save lives.
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The great Irish poet left a legacy of astonishing poems that speak to new readers with their deep wisdom and quietly devastating imagery.
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Vaccinating livestock against common disease not only improves animal welfare, it’s good for the planet too.
In the last two decades alone, Canada has lost nearly 150,000 farmers with the current population standing at just 260,000. Barriers to farming need to be addressed to mitigate this loss.
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The impact of agricultural issues extends far beyond the farming community. Current social crises, including biodiversity loss and food inaccessibility, affect everyone.
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Herbicides and pesticides wash downriver from farms and towns – and some of these chemicals are taken up by oysters.
Managing methane from belching cattle is a top innovation priority.
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Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 vowed to do something about it.
Farming today is as much about data as hardware.
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AI is exciting and scary, but it’s also a very useful tool. Here’s how AI is helping farmers shore up their bottom lines, protect the environment and boost food security.
Workers use a lift to check herbs at a vertical farm greenhouse in Cleburne, Texas.
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Digital twin technology is a huge boon for indoor farming and may hold the key to addressing rising global food scarcity.
A sealing boat is dwarfed by a passenger ferry as it makes its way through heavy ice in North Sydney, N.S., in March 2009.
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The sealing industry has evolved but the EU’s ban on seal imports has contributed to the enduring cultural violence experienced by Canadian sealers.
View south across the Akosombo Dam before the flooding.
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Communities along the bank of the dam have been victims of injustice since the early 1960s.
Aisha Azzam — the subject of a documentary film about preserving Palestinian food culture in exile — in a scene from the film, overlooking the Dead Sea to the Palestinian territories.
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Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But it already was, thanks to the long history of Palestinian agricultural systems.
Giraffes face survival challenges in may parts of Africa.
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Giraffes are vulnerable to extinction, mainly due to habitat loss and killing for bushmeat markets. The good news is human actions can alleviate that danger.
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As the cost-of-living crisis bites into our household budgets, growing or foraging food can save you money.
Second-generation dairy farmer David Janssens walks through a pasture of dairy cows at a farm in Surrey, B.C., in August 2018. Canadians and policymakers should support systems that allow for valuable food industries to flourish, rather than dismantle them.
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If Canada wishes to preserve domestic farms and enhance food security, officials must have limits on what they can concede to American and other foreign interests.
Seeking greenhorns with green thumbs.
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It’s part of a decadeslong trend.
The corporate rush to reduce the environmental footprint of their food supply chains poses several challenges for farmers.
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Big name food brands are pursuing decarbonisation – but they are squeezing farmers in the process.
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Recent study investigated how fast genes are being transferred between distantly related species.
Fulani herdsman at Kachia Grazing Reserve, Kaduna State, Nigeria, in April, 2019.
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Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.