farming

A dry spring left the fields on Karen Klassen's farm parched, and now the Manitoba farmer is bracing for them to get worse. Any day, an unprecedented heat wave smothering western North America will roll over her land, turning sun-baked soil to dust and leaving a poor crop of peas, wheat, and barley in its wake. 

Falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists.

Prince Edward Island could soon become the first province where no one goes to bed hungry. 

The world must restore at least two billion hectares of land and ocean — an area roughly double the size of Canada — to prevent the planet from falling deeper into an ecological crisis fuelled by unchecked economic growth, warns a UN report released Thursday.  

The first batch of baby crickets moved into Matt Muzzatti's living room when the pandemic hit last year, and he’s been adding more ever since.

Last week, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced up to $21.4 million to enhance the Youth Employment and Skills Program.

For Tiffany Traverse, the next two growing seasons will be busy studying beans, oats — and lots of dung.

Fields, vineyards, orchards, and ranches could soon see their greenhouse gas emissions plummet thanks to unprecedented support from the federal government in Monday's Budget 2021.

Many things can spell the last straw for an exhausted farmer — a crop that doesn’t work out, a few too many days working in a row. For Kristen Penhall, it was a comment about the number of carrots in one of her vegetable boxes.

New research shows rising temperatures since the 1960s have acted as a handbrake to the agricultural yield of crops and livestock.

It is safe for small B.C. farmers to slaughter their animals on-farm, newly released government documents suggest.

When the pandemic hit last spring, B.C.’s seed farmers experienced a tsunami of demand for seeds as the number of home gardeners surged and major U.S. seed companies stopped shipping to Canada. For many, growing and cleaning enough seed to fulfil the flood of orders was near impossible.

Canada’s most valuable farms and ranches made a mint last year, while many struggled to balance the books, recently released federal data show — a growing gap some see as a grim sign for the sector.

Sonny Gray thinks the crop of farms popping up across Northern Canada might end up teaching the rest of us lessons vital to the future of the country’s food system.

The young leaders of Youth Roots Durham want to educate youth and other local residents and help them find ways to produce, store and transport food sustainably.