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Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) serves primarily rural communities where agriculture is the main bread earner for many families. Many staff members of AFSC also have rural roots ...

All commodities, not just the North American cattle market, have experienced uncertainty and volatility as a result of recent trade negotiations, tariff impacts and political uncertainty. This has ...

The statistic showing that the average age of Canadian farmer has been consistently on the rise over last few years has understandably been causing concern among both social scientists and industry ...

Life is full of surprises and no one is immune to seeing an unexpected event suddenly change the course of life. Having experienced it first hand, Robert Oeming, the owner-operator of Polar Park it ...

The 2018 crop year was certainly an interesting period as temperatures and crop conditions seesawed from one end of the spectrum to the other. Volatility was also present in commodity markets this ...

With the spring of the year 2018, Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments entered into a new five-year agreement, Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP), a framework to support ...

This year, AFSC has been marking its 80th anniversary and a recent tour by AFSC’s Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team to Southern Alberta has provided the perfect opportunity to the ...

Improved weather beginning from the second week of October has helped producers to get on with their delayed harvest allowing for about 78 per cent of the crops being combined by October 23, is the ...

Moneca Ackney is a lending specialist at AFSC’s Rocky View Branch Office. She is extremely excited these days. The reason is the new set of lending programs that will allow her to support more of ...

Livestock producers struggling with little or no feed, or low quality feed for their cattle this year are not alone. Backgrounding their calves or buying feeders this fall may be an option for but ...