Alberta

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins said her agency is deploying resources to assist the wildfire response in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Alberta, Canada.  The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center raised the wildfire preparedness level to 5 in late May as the country is experiencing very high to extreme wildfire activity.  US...

Oregon Department of Forestry firefighters were sent out of state Friday, to help other regions battling wildfires.  ODF's Jessica Neujahr said the state has various two-way agreements.   "Both of these types of agreements are great because they basically create a reciprocal cache of resources and create a larger, more comprehensive fire management system."   ODF ...

There have been rumblings of separation within the Canadian province of Alberta for decades.  With the re-election of the federal Liberal Party, those rumbles have turned to angry shouts.  Polls suggest that between 25%-30% of Albertans would prefer their province to be an independent sovereign state.  Some of...

In less than a year of full operation, Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline to the Pacific has opened and expanded oil markets into Asia while reducing Canadian crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast.  The biggest buyer, China, is importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing its purchases of American oil by nearly 90% recently due to escalating trade and tariff tensions.   C...

President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, implementation, and abrupt pauses are causing markets to gyrate, threatening recession.  In Canada, along with the loss of a reliable North American trading agenda, Donald Trump has now also hijacked a normal election agenda.   C...

The North American beef cattle herd size is at a 40-year low, after several years of drought and feed shortages in primary cattle regions have taken a heavy toll on cow and heifer numbers.  While cattle producers are seeing record-high prices, the beef processing sector is struggling.  ...

On Thursday, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture confirmed that a domestic bull elk in Madison County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.  This detection marks the first case of CWD identified in a captive elk facility in Idaho.   ...

National Weather Service Meteorologist Steve Bodnar says the chance for fires here is much lower, even with incoming hot weather.

The Wenatchee area as well as North Central Washington and the entire Northwest is about to see really hot weather, with temperatures at 20 degrees above normal by the weekend. National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Bodnar says the weather pattern is coming from an area of very strong high pressure...

The Canola Week Conference has been an annual December event since 1970 and was held again last month in Saskatoon.  The conference founder, Dr. Keith Downey, was in attendance again this year.  Downey is known worldwide throughout the agriculture and agri-food industries as one of two research scientists behind the development of canola. Dr. Keit...