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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 ...

David and Gloria Klassen are running an organic grain farm in the Mackenzie County in northern Alberta. Coming from a farmer family, David was involved in his family’s operation, run together his ...

“We have the most volatile business partner anyone could ever have and that is Mother Nature; she is incredibly unpredictable and can have a devastating or fantastic influence on our bottom said ...

As the average age of Canadian farmer continues to get higher and the issue of food security grows more important due to global phenomena like environmental degradation, climate change and growth a ...

With the onset of harvest season, an intense effort by producers around the province is underway to ensure the crops are being taken off the field in a timely manner.

AgLink has been featuring the stories of enterprises that have used AFSC loans to contribute to the success of their business. In this example, the management team of such a business volunteered to ...

AFSC’s New Crop Insurance Initiative (NCII) program has continued to grow in the 2018 crop year as both, the number of subscriptions and insured acreage increased while the share of some crops in ...