Diego Flammini

3 days ago | m.farms.com | Diego Flammini

Sawyer says she’s ready to get to workAlberta’s ag community will have another advocate in the provincial legislature as Tara Sawyer won the byelection in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills on June 24. The wheat and barley farmer from Acme, Alta., and inaugural chair of Alberta Grains received 9,363 votes on election night, Alberta Elections data says. “Thank you, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills,” Sawyer said on X. “I’m deeply honored by the trust you’ve placed in me to serve as your MLA.

5 days ago | m.farms.com | Diego Flammini

Voters can cast a ballot until 8pmAlbertans in the three provincial ridings having a by-election can now go vote. Voting places in Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills will be open until 8pm. Polling projections show the NDP could take two seats, and the UCP poised to capture the other. The UCP’s seat could come in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, where Tara Sawyer, a wheat and barley farmer from Acme, Alta., and former chair of Alberta Grains, is the party’s candidate.

5 days ago | m.farms.com | Diego Flammini

The Conservatives continued to pressure the government to support farmers in the face of Chinese tariffsAg’s time in the House of Commons for question period came on June 20. Jeremy Patzer, the Conservative MP for Swift Current-Grasslands-Kindersley in Saskatchewan, wanted answers about why the federal government is yet to support Canadian farmers as they face Chinese tariffs.

1 week ago | m.farms.com | Diego Flammini

Dairy plants experienced ransomware attacksHackers have again targeted the American ag industry. Dairy Farmers of America recently revealed that multiple of its 84 nationwide manufacturing plants experienced ransomware attacks and took the necessary steps to mitigate any potential damage. “We immediately contained the threat and were swiftly able to get impacted facilities operational to continue receiving and processing milk,” the organization told Dairy Herd Management.

1 week ago | m.farms.com | Diego Flammini

Jason Crozier’s farm is featured in Alberta Milk’s Farm to Table campaignAn Alberta dairy farmer is one of the faces behind a new local food campaign. Jason Crozier, a fifth-generation farmer at Cheslen Dairies in Sturgeon County, a 1,500-acre operation including crops and about 190 cows, is part of Alberta Milk’s Farm to Table campaign. “I think it’s important to help the industry tell our stories because people are so far removed from the farm,” he told Farms.com.