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Employers bringing thousands of agricultural labourers into Canada in the coming weeks will be required to quarantine them before they can work, and the federal government is promising to offset some of the costs.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says protest blockades shutting down rail service across Canada are quickly creating a full-blown economic crisis.

A new initiative will use haute cuisine to fund carbon sequestration.

“The current system is killing our soil, and farmers have hardly any incentives to do anything different.”

The Green Party added its voice to the chorus calling on the government to give farmers an exemption for the tax on the natural gas or propane used in grain-drying machines.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a rainy harvest season has forced farmers to burn extra propane and natural gas in order to dry out their crops.

The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.

China's ambassador to Canada says his government wants to end the countries' impasse but won't give way on two of Canada's major complaints.

The Trudeau government is promising billions of dollars to compensate dairy, egg and poultry farmers hurt by Canada's recent free-trade agreements — industries concentrated in vote-rich Quebec and Ontario.

In Ethiopia and other developing nations, scientists are working with small-scale farmers on trials to see which seed varieties perform best in changing conditions. These initiatives are enabling farmers to make smarter crop choices in the face of rising temperatures, drought, and more extreme weather.

Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation. But a new Alberta project is using the topic to start one — and is showing people from geologists to farmers to environmentalists that they have more in common than they thought.

Pinal County farmers suffer more drastic cuts than cities in Arizona’s tenuous drought plan.

American automakers, aluminum producers, manufacturers and farmers are running out of time, money and patience as the North American tariff standoff persists, and they're pleading with the United States to put an end to it.

Half a dozen tractors rolled through the streets of downtown Montreal on Sunday, November 18, 2018, as thousands of people marched in support of farmers who say they're threatened by the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay emphasized the importance of the provinces working together as an escalating trade war with the United States puts some farmers on edge.