Agriculture is a cornerstone of both Alberta's and Canada's economy. In 2021, total agricultural revenues in Canada amounted to approximately CAD 67.9 billion in direct revenues, with an additional ...

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 ...

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, ...

Starting in 2026, collection programs for compacted silage plastic and bale wrap will be available in regions of Alberta as ...

Recent precipitation may have made a big difference to a number of struggling farms across the province, but in certain areas of Alberta any relief might come too late. According to the province's ...

An irrigation sprinkler waters crops near Enchant, Ab. in 2019. Well over a century ago, irrigation began helping farmers grow crops in semi-arid southern Alberta. The irrigation industry now ...

Alberta has launched a three-year, $10-million Growing Greenhouses program to expand commercial greenhouses and vertical ...

The Alberta agricultural industry is closely monitoring what it calls the “threat” posed by incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s plan to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on Canadian goods once he takes ...

Elemental Energy’s Brooks Solar II Project near Brooks, Alberta. So far solar farms like this have cost zero agricultural land. Photo supplied. Does renewable energy really pose a threat to Alberta ...

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Dec. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Government of Alberta has renewed its funding and approved a ...

Ian Urquhart is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alberta and the author of Costly Fix: Power, Politics and Nature in the Tar Sands. Elemental Energy’s Brooks Solar II ...