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Olds College researchers are fine-tuning the digital Olds College Assessment of Soil Health scorecard developed to measure soil quality and health, to ensure it is cost effective, interactive and user friendly for farmers grainswest.com/2026/08/keep-… @AlbertaGrains @OldsCollege
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AI may prove an irresistible labour saver for rural businesses says GrainsWest Market Monitor columnist Neil Townsend grainswest.com/2026/08/labou… @AlbertaGrains #westcdnag #grainmarketing
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Harvest the sun: A look at the economics of on-farm solar arrays grainswest.com/2026/08/harve… @AlbertaGrains #westcdnag #agrivoltaics
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Practical automation: European ag event features equipment innovations headed for the Canadian Prairies grainswest.com/2026/08/pract… @AlbertaGrains #agtech
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Ongoing equipment and software upgrades improve Alberta seed plant operations grainswest.com/2026/08/seed-… @AlbertaGrains #westcdnag #seedplants
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In the field, or soon to be, this collection of new and in-development products, much of it digitally enhanced, primarily aims to improve decision-making and increase efficiency of farm operations grainswest.com/2026/08/ag-te… @AlbertaGrains #westcdnag #agtech
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Central to the National Food Security Strategy's red tape reduction commitment is the aim to simplify and update regulatory systems to better meet the time sensitive needs of farmers grainswest.com/2026/10/feds-… @AlbertaGrains @AAFC_Canada @GrainGrowers
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Copeland to Churchill: a malting barley transition. Farmers, maltsters and brewers have typically been slow to adopt new malting barley varieties, so when a new variety takes top spot, the change is worth talking about grainswestpodcast.podbean.co… @AlbertaGrains #westcdnag
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Prompt service: The rise of AI in agriculture raises questions and presents opportunities grainswest.com/2026/08/promp… @AlbertaGrains
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Among its many details, the National Food Security Strategy pledges to increase Canada’s ability to feed its population with domestically grown and processed foods so as to create jobs and reduce food cost grainswest.com/2026/10/feds-… @AlbertaGrains @AAFC_Canada @GrainGrowers
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The latest installation in our family farm portrait series, we visit the Romanowskis in Sturgeon County where they grow canola, malting barley and wheat grainswest.com/2026/08/meet-… @AlbertaGrains
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Through tools such as the Alberta Soil Health Benchmark and research projects such as a recent soil microbe study, researchers are learning more about current soil conditions and how to maximize soil health grainswest.com/2026/08/build… @AlbertaGrains
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The National Food Security Strategy commits to reduce red tape in food production, to improve financial aid programming for farmers and food industry stakeholders and to address the ag labour shortage grainswest.com/2026/10/feds-… @AlbertaGrains @AAFC_Canada @GrainGrowers
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Switching on dormant wheat gene allows University of Maryland researcher to triple number of kernels per grain head grainswest.com/2026/08/tripl… @AlbertaGrains #agresearch
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Soon-to-be available RNA interference technology will enable new non-chemical tools to fight wireworm grainswest.com/2026/08/curl-… @AlbertaGrains @AAFC_Canada westcdnag
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The GrainsWest Podcast examines the transition from CDC Churchill to CDC Copeland as the preferred malting barley of Prairie farmers grainswestpodcast.podbean.co… @AlbertaGrains @SeCan @CDC_USask @canadianbarley
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Agriculture experts say a new data-sharing initiative unveiled by Genome Alberta, Genome BC and RDAR could dramatically speed up the translation of research into real world impact on the farm grainswest.com/2026/08/accel… @AlbertaGrains @GenomeAlberta @GenomeBC @RDARAlberta
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The Agriculture Innovation, Validation and Adoption Network is a standardized testing system that supports both innovators and farmers by validating new farm technology products grainswest.com/2026/08/test-… @AlbertaGrains @FCCagriculture @EMILICanada #cdnagtech
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Balwinder Kumar has been immersed in agriculture since childhood. The Lakeland College research scientist focuses on cereal and forage agronomy grainswest.com/2026/08/good-… @AlbertaGrains @drbk111 #westcdnag
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